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Health industry lobby buys 350 former government officials
July 7, 2009The country’s biggest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members, including former members of Congress, in order to influence the health care debate taking place in the nation’s capital,...
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Immigrant-bashing ballot measure fails
July 7, 2009PORT ANGELES, WA.—A far right-wing outfit, Respect Washington (RW), failed to collect enough signatures to qualify their immigrant-bashing initiative for the ballot in Washington State this November. The measure would have required state and local law...
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Moving to a no-nukes world? Obama, Medvedev agree on nuclear weapons cuts
July 7, 2009In a turn away from years of stalemate and heightened tensions between the U.S. and Russia over nuclear weapons, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Monday to reduce U.S. and Russian stockpiles of...
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Wells Fargo loses an important round in predatory lending case
July 7, 2009A federal judge ruled recently against Wells Fargo's request to dismiss a suit charging it with racially motivated predatory lending. The case is being brought against Wells Fargo by the city of Baltimore which claims the...
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LETTERS: Horror in the desert, Capitalism exposed, A sample of readers comments
July 7, 2009Horror in the desert I went on a desert hike the other day with the Samaritans (a humanitarian group that provides aid to migrants in distress), and amidst all the empty water bottles and backpacks and...
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