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Stop the bombing!
July 21, 2006Demand rises for cease-fire in Middle East crisis Calls for an immediate cease-fire, pullback of Israeli troops from Lebanon and Gaza, and an end to the bloodshed in the Middle East gathered momentum last week as...
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NAACP honors abolitionist John Brown
July 20, 2006BALTIMORE (AP) - About 74 years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois led civil rights group the NAACP from its convention in Washington to a historically black college in Harpers Ferry to lay a tablet to honor militant...
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Problems Found With Diebold Voting Machines in Ohio
July 20, 2006Subtle variations on the paper ballots used in a May primary election in Cuyahoga County made them unreadable to optical scanners, a review released Monday found. It was the county’s first election using Diebold’s touch-screen and...
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House passes Voting Rights Act renewal
July 14, 2006Southern conservative efforts on amendments failRep. Mel Watt, a North Carolina Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, discusses the Voting Rights Act. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Thursday to renew the 1965 Voting...
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Weapon of mass destruction
July 14, 2006The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that Iraq, with a population of about 26 million, in the year 2000 had a total of 195,374 new cases of cancer and 126,677 cancer deaths, most of them...
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