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Labor, aiming to oust McConnell, campaigns hard for Grimes in Kentucky
October 8, 2014"A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one," legendary former U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn famously once observed.
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First round election results in Brazil leave left hopeful
October 8, 2014On Sunday October. 5, Brazil held its general elections, after a campaign that was anything but boring.
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Anger in Mexico over attack on teachers’ college students
October 8, 2014Mexicans reacted with anger and indignation to the disappearance and possible murder of 43 young students of a teachers' college near Iguala, in the Southern State of Guerrero.
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Proposition 2: A bad idea for California
October 7, 2014Prop 2 sets aside a percentage of the surplus billions in unexpected tax revenues, without restoring the $15 billion in brutal budget cuts beginning in 2008 .
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From trains to streets, Climate March moved people
October 7, 2014From the Chicago climate train full of activists, to the People's Climate March itself, every person there seemed to feel passionately about a particular environmental issue.
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