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Trumka urges white working-class men to back Warren in Mass.
September 28, 2012Using unusually strong language, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka waded into the neck-and-neck Massachusetts U.S. Senate.
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Is the fracking industry bribing professors?
September 27, 2012The University of Texas plans to organize experts to review a report on fracking after learning that the professor who wrote it is in the pocket of the natural gas industry.
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U.S. Army stands down worldwide to focus on suicide prevention
September 27, 2012More U.S. soldiers are now killing themselves than are being killed in the wars in the Middle East. The Army brass ordered the stand down after July figures showed a record high 26 soldiers died in...
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Restaurant has to pay wages it stole from employee
September 27, 2012Workers in transparent rain ponchos hand out pale yellow fliers to people preparing to enter Lee Kan's Asian Grill in the Collierville Shopping Center.
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Civilian deaths mount as U.S. drones strike Pakistan
September 27, 2012A small sampling of media headlines points to a problem raised repeatedly by international, peace and human rights organizations.
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