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Obama at miners’ memorial asks ‘How can we fail them?’
April 27, 2010"How can a nation that relies on its miners not do everything in its power to protect them?" the president said to the thousands at Sunday's memorial in Beckley, W.Va.
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Safety high on the agenda for Workers Memorial Day
April 27, 2010According to Leo Gerard, president of the United Steel Workers, "The most important thing to come out of a mine is the miner."
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Ex-inmates need across-the-board help, panelists say
April 27, 2010Alameda County elected officials, law enforcement officials, community organizations and current and former inmates came together April 22, to consider how best to help former prisoners.
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90,000 protest U.S. base in Okinawa
April 27, 2010More than 90,000 people took to the streets in Okinawa, Japan, on April 25 to demand that a controversial U.S. military base be closed.
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Answer to youth violence is jobs, not National Guard
April 26, 2010I think it's absolutely ridiculous that two Illinois lawmakers are requesting to bring in the National Guard as a way to control youth violence.
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