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Governing party candidate excluded in Haiti runoff elections
February 7, 2011Under intense international pressure, Haiti's election board has announced that it is excluding Jude Celestin, candidate of President Rene Preval's INTE Party, from runoff presidential elections scheduled for March 20.
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GOP uses “budget cutting” to attack unions
February 7, 2011An influential right-wing group among the House's new GOP majority, the 170-member Republican Study Committee (RSC), is using "budget cutting" as an excuse to attack federal worker union reps.
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Obama turns up the heat on big business
February 7, 2011The president's speech to the Chamber of Commerce Feb. 7 was much more than the "thaw with business leaders."
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Facing benefit cutoff, jobless “99ers” organize
February 7, 2011Activists note official unemployment in Connecticut has more than doubled to about 170,000 since 2007, with no sign of improvement. It's a crisis for the entire state and demands emergency attention, they say.
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Why so little reporting on Spokane bomb threat?
February 7, 2011There is a well-documented history of the corporate media playing down domestic terrorism threats “that don’t involve Arab or Muslim” alleged conspirators.
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