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Judges order big cut in California prison population
August 7, 2009Saying that jamming more than 150,000 inmates into facilities designed for just over half that number has resulted in health care so poor it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, a panel of three federal judges...
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Immigrant rights leaders welcome Obamas detention plan
August 7, 2009Civil rights leaders and immigrant advocacy groups say they welcome President Barack Obama’s new plan to institute badly needed reforms within the country’s broken immigration detention system. Current detention policies continue to routinely violate the basic...
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India’s banks hit by strike
August 7, 2009India's more than one million-strong unionized bank employees went on strike, Aug. 6, led by United Forum of Bank Unions or UFBU.
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Arctic Ocean could be pollution sump in 60 years if warming not curbed
August 7, 2009The Arctic Ocean could become a stagnant, polluted sea within 60 years if nothing is done to cut global warming, a scientific study warns.
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Iraq vet jailed for refusing to redeploy to Afghanistan
August 7, 2009An army soldier was sentenced to a one month jail term and demoted Wednesday for refusing to fight in Afghanistan. Victor Agosto, a veteran of the Iraq war who was due for release in June was...
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