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Big business greed “holds Illinois hostage”
June 14, 2011The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group made $951 million in profits on $3 billion in income in 2010. But that's not enough, they are threatening to move out of Illinois unless they get a tax break.
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Who should pay for the Iraq war?
June 14, 2011On a trip to Baghdad last week, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., enraged Iraqi officials by saying that Iraq should repay the U.S. for the cost of the war.
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Protests greet release of Oscar Grant’s killer
June 14, 2011Hundreds marched peacefully to protest the release from prison of Johannes Mehserle, former BART police officer who killed passenger Oscar Grant III, after Mehserle had served just one year in prison.
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Chile seeks truth about deaths of Allende and Neruda
June 14, 2011The body of former Chilean President Salvador Allende was exhumed in May in an attempt to determine whether the democratically elected socialist president was murdered.
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Ending wars, creating jobs, top mayors’ agenda
June 14, 2011More than a dozen mayors are sponsoring a resolution to end the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and use the savings to pay for job-creating programs in the nation's cities.
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