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AFL-CIO blasts ‘corporate mobs’ at recess town hall meetings
August 7, 2009The AFL-CIO has called on its union affiliates to defend lawmakers’ health care reform town hall meetings from “corporate…mob rule” in recent days. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney sent out a memo this week outlining a blue...
Read moreBudd Schulberg, screenwriter who named names, could have been a contender
August 7, 2009Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg passed away Wednesday at the age of 95, and the press is filled with obituaries noting his work and commenting on his most famous off-screen moment — as a 'friendly witness' before...
Read moreJudges order big cut in California prison population
August 7, 2009Saying that jamming more than 150,000 inmates into facilities designed for just over half that number has resulted in health care so poor it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, a panel of three federal judges...
Read moreImmigrant rights leaders welcome Obamas detention plan
August 7, 2009Civil rights leaders and immigrant advocacy groups say they welcome President Barack Obama’s new plan to institute badly needed reforms within the country’s broken immigration detention system. Current detention policies continue to routinely violate the basic...
Read moreArctic Ocean could be pollution sump in 60 years if warming not curbed
August 7, 2009The Arctic Ocean could become a stagnant, polluted sea within 60 years if nothing is done to cut global warming, a scientific study warns.
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