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After Supreme Court ruling, unions fear opening of corporate cash floodgates
February 2, 2010Leaders of the nation's largest unions came out in unanimous opposition to the recent Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to spend as much as they like to influence the outcome of elections in the United...
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Expect major changes in No Child law, officials say
February 2, 2010The Obama administration is proposing major changes to the nation's No Child Left Behind education law.
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World Notes
February 2, 2010In World Notes this week: Canada, South Africa, Dominican Republic, Taiwan, Cuba, Afghanistan.
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Climate change moves and countermoves
February 1, 2010From right to left, players on all sides of the legislative and political battlefield are trying to move the debate their way.
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‘This fracking sucks,’ concerned residents say
February 1, 2010ITHACA, N.Y. - Residents in this town, known for its picturesque waterfalls, are protesting a plan to extract gas from the ground by a process known as horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
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