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Senate Clears Way for Final Financial Reform Bill Vote
Three Republican senators from the Northeast join majority Democrats to advance a financial reform bill to tighten regulation of Wall Street. Senators voted 60 to 40 Thursday to end …
South Africa Launches World’s Biggest Anti-AIDS Drive
Johannesburg, South Africa - As South Africa ramps up a high-profile campaign to test 15 million people for HIV in the next year, experts are questioning whether the country’s …
Health Reform Bill Gives a Boost to School-Based Health Centers
The recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L.111-148, promises to make far-reaching changes to our current health care system. But the law’s benefits may go well beyond …
The Mortgage Slick Could Be Stopped
Housing foreclosure is ebbing and flowing across the US like the oil cloud in the Gulf of Mexico, shifting and poisoning as it goes about silently attacking us and …
Drug Bust or Racist Revenge?
Sheriff Scott Franklin of Jena, Louisiana, said he is trying to rid his community of drugs. Critics say he is pursuing revenge against the town's black community. At 4:00 …
Ellen Bravo | Women’s Stake in Fighting Arizona’s New Law
As the sheriff’s truck followed our van several blocks through Phoenix, I kept thinking what the sight of that vehicle would mean for Silvia or Esperanza or Alejandra or …
Loggers, Activists Reach Deal on Canada’s Boreal Forest
Uxbridge, Canada - The decades-long war in Canada's northwoods appears to be over. Environmental groups and Canadian logging companies linked arms Tuesday morning and agreed to work together to …
Short Tales From Election Day Bizarro World
Voters in Arkansas, Kentucky and Pennsylvania went to the polls on Tuesday in one of the first big events of the upcoming 2010 midterm election season, so of course, …
Elena Kagan? Jury Is Still Out
On Monday, May 10, President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to replace retiring Associate Justice John Paul Stevens. Many see this selection as a prudent political move; as the sitting …
The 28th Amendment?
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that critics—including President Barack Obama—say opens the floodgates to corporate buy-outs of U.S. elections. According to the Citizens …