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Labor launches final push to oust Republican right
November 3, 2006‘Working families are very dissatisfied with the direction our country is going’Organized labor and its allies launched a massive, nationwide get-out-the-vote drive in the final days of the midterm election as polls showed many tight races...
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New Jersey Court Stops Short of Marriage Equality
October 28, 2006Wednesday, Oct. 25, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to the same state benefits, protections, and obligations as different-sex couples. The court split, however, on how to remedy...
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FBI destroyed files on anti-Cuba terrorist
October 27, 2006This very week it is possible that Luis Posada Carriles will be freed to walk the streets of the United States. The former CIA agent, wanted for terrorism in several countries, will be released basically because...
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Labor sin fruto
October 27, 2006Julia Preston, reportera del diario The New York Times, escribiendo desde Washington, D.C., describe las peras pudriéndose en los árboles en el condado Lake de California, pues no hay mano de obra agrícola para cosecharlas. Rancheros...
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San Jose, Calif., mayoral race hangs in balance
October 27, 2006With a poll earlier this month showing the candidates neck-and-neck, San Jose’s nonpartisan mayoral contest between City Councilmembers Cindy Chavez and Chuck Reed has become a real cliff-hanger. A poll Oct. 3-5 by the Survey and...
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