U.S.
Turnout is the wildcard in Texas election
October 21, 2014What could make all polls obsolete is voter turnout: labor and the progressive forces are knocking themselves out to increase it!
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Walmart worker explains why she shut down Park Ave.
October 21, 2014"One week, after I paid rent, I only had $6 leftover for groceries and bills; that is no way to live."
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Ebola fear, monitoring ease for some in Dallas
October 20, 2014Officials said 43 of 48 people on an original watch list have passed the 21-day maximum incubation period for the viral disease and are now in the clear.
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Peaceful Ferguson protests could spark new civil rights movement
October 20, 2014What is now known as Ferguson October could go down in the history books as the spark that ignited the new civil rights movement.
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Report exposes GOP governors ties to donors who get contracts
October 17, 2014Electronic web-only for-profit schools that flunk national standards, corporate clients that don't create jobs they promise, all from the galloping privatization of public sector work.
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