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Attorney General seeks review of cocaine sentencing laws
June 29, 2009Original source: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers that it was time to close the gap in prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine crimes, a disparity in sentencing that has had a large impact...
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Ludlow massacre site dedicated as national landmark
June 29, 2009Original source: Mine Workers (UMWA) leaders, union activists, lawmakers and historians will dedicate the site of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre—one of the bloodiest chapters in the nation’s labor history—as a National Historic Landmark. On April 20,...
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British embassy staff held in Tehran
June 29, 2009Original source: Authorities have detained eight employees of the British embassy in Tehran on Saturday, alleging that they had played a 'significant role' in post-election unrest. Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who is in Corfu for a...
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Communist Party statement on Honduras crisis
June 29, 2009The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) joins with the world in denouncing the coup d’etat this morning against the legally elected president of the Republic of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, by the Honduran military, in which, according to...
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Reaction to the Honduran crisis
June 29, 2009Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton The action taken against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya violates the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and thus should be condemned by all. We call on all parties in Honduras to...
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