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Returned Abramoff donations erase national debt
January 13, 2006Lawmakers scramble to shed trillions in tainted cash Politicians in Washington hurried today to dump trillions of dollars worth of campaign donations from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, giving the money to the Treasury Department and all...
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Labor opposes Alito nomination
January 13, 2006WASHINGTON (PAI) — The nation’s two labor federations have joined the broad coalition opposing President George W. Bush’s nomination of federal judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a letter to senators, AFL-CIO President...
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World Notes
January 13, 2006Nigeria: Prison reform approved A plan to reform abysmal prison conditions in Nigeria has been approved by the federal government. About 45,000 inmates are currently held in 277 prisons across the West African country, reports the...
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Did Arnold turn over a new leaf?
January 13, 2006California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying hard to convince voters he’s turned over a new, centrist leaf since his corporate-inspired, anti-labor state makeover proposals went down to defeat last November. In his Jan. 5 State of...
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World trip underscores Bolivians historic win
January 13, 2006Indigenous leader Evo Morales gained 54 percent of the popular vote in Bolivia’s Dec. 18 presidential election, and his totals would have been more had election officials not decertified a million poor people before the voting....
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