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Supreme Court rules against affirmative action
June 30, 2009The Supreme Court today ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn. were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, overturning a decision by high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. In a blow to affirmative action the court, in a 5-4 ruling, said New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on...
Read moreSixteen arrested in W.Va. after 11,000 march on Patriot Coal
April 02, 2013The actions, organized by UMWA, were in support of the union's campaign to save health care for retired miners and win better wages, benefits and working conditions for miners on the job.
Read moreTrump team conducts Theatre of the Absurd in the Capitol
January 28, 2020Star TV lawyer Dershowitz says abuse of power, no matter how bad, is not a reason for impeachment.
Read moreRight fails to stop jobless benefits extension
October 02, 2009The House votes to extend unemployment compensation.
Read moreObama draws line in the sand on Bush tax cuts for the rich
July 28, 2010President Obama vowed at a closed-door White House meeting with Congressional leaders yesterday, July 27, that Democrats will end the Bush tax cuts for the rich and continue the middle class tax cuts they enacted last year.
Read moreRight wing woes grow in Wisconsin
March 17, 2011Republican elected officials have a lot to worry about as voters increasingly turn away from them in disgust.
Read moreNew York Times video shows U.S. peddles lies about Venezuela’s Maduro
March 11, 2019New video shows it was an anti-Maduro protester, not Venezuelan soldiers, who set the aid convoy ablaze.
Read moreWorkers say King's dream not yet realized
August 29, 2011A panhandler in New York's subways had worked for years as a union painter and carpenter before he was reduced, by job cuts, to begging for a living.
Read moreWisconsin gears up for Scott Walker recall
October 12, 2011The recall elections for Wis. state senators this summer may end up looking like small potatoes when compared to the massive campaign to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker some time next spring.
Read moreRepublicans fear Ryan pick could sink GOP
August 14, 2012Congressional Republicans aren't admitting it, but they are nervous as hell about Paul Ryan being the party's VP nominee.
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