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  • Supreme Court orders new hearing for Troy Davis

    Supreme Court orders new hearing for Troy Davis

    August 18, 2009

    In a significant move the Supreme Court today ordered a new hearing in the case of African American death row inmate Troy Davis accused of killing Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989. Davis’s case...

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  • Obama admin. assures veterans on health reform

    Obama admin. assures veterans on health reform

    August 18, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

    The White House continued to knock down false information about the president's health reform plan by addressing false rumors circulated in the right-wing media that claim reform could force veterans out of the VA health care...

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  • Big Oil holding ‘town halls’ on climate bill

    Big Oil holding ‘town halls’ on climate bill

    August 18, 2009

    Original source: Following in the footsteps of the corporate-backed protest movement against health care reform, a group founded and funded by business interests opposed to regulating greenhouse gas pollution is planning a series of rallies to...

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  • Fox News: Still Unfair and Unbalanced

    Fox News: Still Unfair and Unbalanced

    August 16, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

    In addition to some of its major personalities promoting disruptions and even violence at congressional town hall meetings, the guests and commentators invited to appear on its programs seem to overwhelmingly oppose health reform as well.

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  • Netroots activists push for immigration reform

    Netroots activists push for immigration reform

    August 16, 2009

    PITTSBURGH PA - 'You all are the folks we need on the ground raising awareness about enforcement and detention in our immigrant system,' said Jacki Esposito, from the Detention Watch Network, here at the national Netroots...

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