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As BP Oil Spill Fight Continues, More Areas Closed to the Public
With confirmed sightings of oil across a 50-mile chain of islands that line Louisiana's Southwestern coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has ordered the affected area closed …
California Assembly Approves Protection for Homeless
Californians' civil right to be homeless would be given new legal protection under legislation approved Thursday by the Assembly. Basically, the measure would deem violence against homeless people or …
Will Obama Say Yes to Afghan Peace Talks? (2)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is coming to Washington next week to meet with President Obama. Afghan government officials have said that their top priority for these talks is to …
US: Temporary Halt to Offshore Drilling Means Arctic, Too
Washington - Saying there are new safety concerns raised by last month's explosion of an oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the Interior Department has told Shell …
Unemployment Rises to 9.9 Percent, Driven by Jump in Labor Force Participation (2)
Nominal wage growth has averaged just 1.1 percent over the last quarter. The Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in April as 805,000 people …
The Nazis Defeated in Berlin
What did May Day bring to Berlin? To believe the boulevard rags, it was to be a day of revolutionary riot, bloody battles with the police and violent standoffs …
Hundreds of Union Janitors Fired Under Pressure From Feds (2)
San Francisco, California - Federal immigration authorities have pressured one of San Francisco's major building service companies, ABM, into firing hundreds of its own workers. Some 475 janitors have …
Just Don’t Call It “Defense“
The Pentagon “base budget” request for fiscal year 2011 (beginning on October 1) calls for about $549 billion, an increase of $18 billion over the appropriation for the current …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | What Britain Taught Us
Washington - Britain produced an electoral earthquake all right, but not the one so many expected. The real lessons have less to do with two-party systems than with how …
Congress Backs Wall Street, Rejects Big Bank Break-Up
Late last night, the U.S. Senate rejected the single most important element of Wall Street reform by a vote of 33 to 61. The SAFE Banking Act would have …