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Playwright Harold Pinter, Iraq war critic, remembered
December 30, 2008LONDON (AP) — British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, who produced some of his generation’s most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, has died. He was 78. Pinter died...
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The year in headlines: election and economy
December 30, 2008WASHINGTON (PAI)--The election, the election, the election…and the economy. Or maybe, by the end of the year, it was: The economy, the economy, the economy and the election. Or, actually, it was both. As reflected in...
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Ash flood may change way TVA handles coal waste
December 30, 2008KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) — The spill of more than a billion gallons of coal ash from a power plant in East Tennessee may change the way the nation’s largest government-owned utility stores coal waste. Roane County...
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CPUSA condemns Gaza attacks
December 30, 2008The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) emphatically condemns the continuing Israeli air strikes in Gaza, which have left hundreds dead and over a thousand wounded. The hundreds of Israeli air strikes have been carried out with a...
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Calls grow for U.S. action on Gaza ceasefire
December 30, 2008As the United Nations Security Council called for an immediate Gaza ceasefire, Jewish and Arab American groups urged the Bush administration and other nations to act to stop the escalating violence.
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