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Hammer on ballot
August 11, 2006HOUSTON — Tina Benkiser, chair of the Texas Republican Party, lost in her attempt to remove former GOP Rep. Tom DeLay from November’s ballot. The GOP argued that he would not be a resident of Texas...
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Hiroshima commemorated
August 11, 2006LIVERMORE, Calif. — Demonstrations across the country this week remembered the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Organizers said over 80 events coordinated by United for...
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Public workers map plan for 21st century
August 11, 2006CHICAGO — “It’s time, past time, that our soldiers come back home to their families” from Iraq, said Gerald McEntee, international president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union, in his keynote...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
August 11, 2006CRAWFORD, Texas: Sheehan returns to Camp Casey “Last summer I made a commitment to be here every time George Bush was supposed to be on vacation,” said Gold Star peace mother Cindy Sheehan last week. Her...
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Progressive for Congress comes under fire
August 11, 2006MINNEAPOLIS — If Keith Ellison is elected in November to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, he will bring to the U.S. House of Representatives a fresh progressive voice in tradition of Paul Wellstone. He will also...
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