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Four Alleged Masterminds of 2008 Mumbai Attacks Are Indicted in Chicago
Federal prosecutors in Chicago have indicted four alleged masterminds of the 2008 Mumbai attacks including two men who, as ProPublica has reported in recent months, have been linked by …
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Syria Ramps Up Crackdown as US Considers “Targeted” Sanctions
Cairo - Tanks and troops appeared Monday to unleash indiscriminate fire into residential areas of Daraa, the southern Syrian city where the uprising against President Bashar Assad began, in …
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Public Pensions, Once Off Limits, Face Budget Cuts
When an arbitrator ruled this month that Detroit could reduce the pensions being earned by its police sergeants and lieutenants, it put the struggling city at the forefront of …
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As Syrian Regime Sends Tanks Against Citizens, Obama Ponders Sanctions
Washington - The United States is considering seeking targeted sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime amid reports that it unleashed tanks and troops in an escalating crackdown on …
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Supreme Court Refuses to Skip Lower Courts on Health Care Reform Law
Washington - The Supreme Court refused Monday to bypass the lower courts and take up an immediate challenge to the constitutionality of the national healthcare reform law and its …
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Citing Jobs and Environment, More Unions Backing Environmental Protection Agency
At the start of 2011, as the energy corporations, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Tea Party right launched their assault on environmental protection and the EPA, it …
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One Year After SB 1070, Arizona’s Immigrant Networks Are Stronger
Phoenix - It’s a warm afternoon at a trailer park in Central Phoenix as Isidro Carreras sets up chairs on his lawn. Neighbors start arriving gradually, until a group …
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News in Brief: House GOP Attorney Stops Fighting for Defense of Marriage Act, and More
House GOP Attorney Stops Fighting for Defense of Marriage Act According to Think Progress, House GOP-hired attorney Paul Clement, a former solicitor general, recently dropped the Defense …
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Confederate Flag at Dodge Courthouse Stirs Controversy
A Confederate battle flag flies Wednesday next to a memorial to Confederate war dead near the Dodge County Courthouse, in the background, in Eastman. (Photo: Grant Blankenship / The …
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Seeding Reconstruction?
Part 1 - Project corn