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Marchers link struggles past to promising future

DETROIT — Close to 70 Obama acceptance speech events took place in the Detroit metropolitan area last night, but by far the largest was at Bert’s Warehouse Theater in the city’s Eastern Market, where several thousand...

Largest-ever workplace raid terrorizes 600 workers in Miss.

Nearly 600 undocumented workers were rounded up Aug. 25 by federal agents in the small town of Laurel, Miss., the largest single workplace raid in U.S. history. According to news reports, 595 workers were detained at...

Calif.s most vulnerable in peril with state budget still in limbo

If California’s budget, now stalled since July 1, isn’t resolved by the end of the Labor Day holiday, it will set a dismal new record. In the longest previous delay, a budget was finally passed on...

Opinion: Olympic follies and triumphs

To run a full marathon experts suggest that the aspiring athlete requires at least six months of rigorous training, proper gear, a particular diet, regular check-ups, mental focus and preparation, and a variety of gadgets depending...

Shades of Green: August 30