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Obama halts offshore drilling
May 27, 2010President Obama announced today that he is extending a moratorium on deepwater oil drilling permits, and said the BP explosion showed the need to transition to a green economy.
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Single-payer health care in health care overhaul law?
May 27, 2010WASHINGTON (PAI) - Is single-payer government-run health care - a key cause for 21 international unions and 500 other labor organizations and a bugaboo for the health insurers and the Radical Right - in the massive...
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Minority, women farmers’ discrimination suits near settlement
May 27, 2010U.S. government discrimination against minority farmers and women will be a thing of the past if the Obama administration has anything to say about it.
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BP oil rig disaster is big setback for Big Oil
May 26, 2010This week brought new revelations about the "cozy relationship" between the oil industry and government officials, and about deregulation's role in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
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Police chiefs slam Arizona anti-immigrant law
May 26, 2010Police chiefs from 10 major U.S. cities, including Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., expressed strong disapproval of Arizona's anti-immigrant law today, May 26 in a meeting with US Attorney General Eric Holder.
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