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NEWS IN BRIEF

February 17, 2006

Cheney victim has heart attack Sensenbrenner scolded on spying Specter brings up impeachment Taxpayers: $0, Big oil: $65 billion $385 million to Halliburton for immigrant prisons Report slams Bush on Katrina Private accounts buried in budget

Mining families still gripped with grief, anger

February 17, 2006

Once the CNN trucks roll out, the national story dies on the vine, but for mining families and the United Mine Workers union in West Virginia, the recent coal mine disasters just won’t go away. After...

Connecticut Black history forum to honor 3 women leaders

February 17, 2006 By Special to People’s World

NEW HAVEN — Jarvis Tyner, executive vice chair of the Communist Party USA and a founder of the Black Radical Congress, will return to Connecticut to keynote the 32nd annual African American History Month celebration of...

Grace Bassett: foot soldier for justice

February 17, 2006 By Dan Margolis

Approaching 90, Grace Bassett, a lifelong activist for African American equality, is going strong. Like anyone her age, she has seen many changes, but Bassett, perhaps more than most, has taken an active part in shaping...

Upsurge defends immigrant rights. Movement focuses on Senate

February 17, 2006

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The Republican leadership of the U.S. Senate has indicated that floor debate on landmark changes in immigration policy will begin the week of March 27. But the debate will get under way weeks...