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  • As Ohio goes, so goes the nation?

    As Ohio goes, so goes the nation?

    May 26, 2006

    This old truism may still be true. As everyone knows, Ohio’s vote tipped the scales for George W. Bush in 2004. Many questions were raised at the time about the security and accuracy of that vote....

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  • NATIONALCLIPS

    NATIONALCLIPS

    May 26, 2006

    NEW ORLEANS: Nagin re-elected Mayor Ray Nagin won a second term May 20, beating out Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu 52-48 percent. Nagin begins his second term on May 31 — a day before the start of...

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  • June 6 race could spell trouble for GOP

    June 6 race could spell trouble for GOP

    May 26, 2006

    National attention is focusing on the June 6 special election in California’s 50th Congressional District, north of San Diego, to replace Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham. Cunningham is now in prison after pleading guilty to taking...

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  • More miners killed

    More miners killed

    May 26, 2006

    “I think it’s a crisis right now,” said Tony Oppegard, former top lawyer for Kentucky’s Mine Safety and Licensing Office. “When we have 31 coal miners killed in less than five months, that’s a crisis and...

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  • Immigrant rights activists vow to press forward

    Immigrant rights activists vow to press forward

    May 26, 2006

    Led by President Bush and the right-wing Heritage Foundation, Senate Republicans closed ranks and turned their backs this week on the millions who demonstrated for immigrant rights this spring. As the World was going to press,...

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