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Dallas re-lives its Black history
February 3, 2010The Dallas Peace Center jump-started Black History Month by inviting the Rev. James Lawson, one of the most famous of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s contemporaries in the civil rights movement, for a three-day tour.
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Blackwater swamp keeps on bubbling
February 2, 2010The Justice Department has begun a criminal fraud investigation of the company, its employees face criminal charges, but it keeps doing its dirty work under a tangle of names.
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Senate moving toward smaller jobs bill
February 2, 2010The jobs bill now being drafted in the Senate, only half the size of the one passed by the House in December, is "not enough."
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Expect major changes in No Child law, officials say
February 2, 2010The Obama administration is proposing major changes to the nation's No Child Left Behind education law.
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‘This fracking sucks,’ concerned residents say
February 1, 2010ITHACA, N.Y. - Residents in this town, known for its picturesque waterfalls, are protesting a plan to extract gas from the ground by a process known as horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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