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Retirees set to tell lawmakers: Health care reform now
June 17, 2009Original source: For three hours before the formal opening of their annual legislative conference yesterday, members of the Alliance for Retired Americans got down to business by taking part in workshops on health care reform and...
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Turmoil in Iran widens
June 17, 2009Original source: TEHRAN (Tehranbureau.com), June 15 — Dusk on Monday witnessed the most shocking scenes so far from the aftermath to Iran’s disputed election. Events have have now escalated to a level of intensity unprecedented since...
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MULTIMEDIA Six years without justice at Congress Hotel
June 16, 2009CHICAGO -- Thousands of union members, their families and supporters marched in solidarity with Unite Here's Congress Hotel workers on the sixth anniversary of the strike, June 15. Gov. Pat Quinn and city aldermen were among...
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Supreme Court refuses to hear case of Cuba 5
June 16, 2009WASHINGTON -- The United States Supreme Court today refused, without comment, to hear the case of the “Cuba 5,” Cuban citizens jailed by the federal government in a case that has generated intense international criticism of...
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Holocaust Museum, Kansas doctor: When hate and politics turn deadly
June 16, 2009WASHINGTON — Labor and human rights groups as well as political commentators have reacted with alarm to the May 31 murder of Dr. George Tiller, the Wichita doctor who performed abortions, and, 12 days later, the...
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