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  • Maryland lawmakers block school takeovers

    Maryland lawmakers block school takeovers

    April 14, 2006

    BALTIMORE — Defying Republican Gov. Bob Ehrlich’s veto and Bush administration threats of a cutoff in federal funding, the Maryland General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to block a state takeover of 11 Baltimore public schools under...

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  • Group hails plutonium removal, warns of dangers

    Group hails plutonium removal, warns of dangers

    April 14, 2006

    The Department of Energy said last week it plans to remove all “nuclear bomb useable” quantities of plutonium and highly enriched uranium from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by the end of 2014, establishing a new plutonium...

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  • NATIONALCLIPS: Nationwide 2 million march for immigrant justice

    NATIONALCLIPS: Nationwide 2 million march for immigrant justice

    April 14, 2006

    Immigrants and their supporters turned up the pressure on President Bush and Congress with a wave that swept through more than 120 cities, suburbs and towns coast to coast from April 7 to April 10, the...

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  • Immigration upsurge ups the ante. News analysis.

    Immigration upsurge ups the ante. News analysis.

    April 14, 2006

    According to Time magazine, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) decided not to support the Republican-led Senate “compromise” bill on immigration reform because he felt he was walking into a trap. This recalls Patrick Henry’s famous...

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  • Two more deaths in West Virginia mines

    Two more deaths in West Virginia mines

    April 14, 2006

    PITTSBURGH — While coal companies are tallying up their first-quarter profits, two more West Virginia families have an empty chair when they sit down for a meal. Robert Runyon, 48, died April 7 in a roof...

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