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Minneapolis joins growing list of $15 an hour cities
July 6, 2017Minneapolis is raising the minimum wage by popular demand and because its low-paid workers, many of them in fast food and retail, need it.
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At G-20 in Hamburg, Trump should call for peace, not war
July 6, 2017Whatever he tweets, Donald Trump’s encounter with Vladimir Putin on Friday, their first ever, can have immense importance for the world, no matter what it thinks of either of them.
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This week in history: The Summer of Love
July 6, 2017Fifty years ago, as many as 100,000 mostly young people, sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
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Ukrainian Communists appeal ban; court ruling due today
July 6, 2017Far-right government rejects Ukraine’s Soviet past, instead honoring Nazi collaborators who helped massacre Jews and Poles during the Holocaust.
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Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-Latino offensive goes into high gear
July 5, 2017Last week, the anti-immigrant and anti-Latino offensive of President Trump and the Republican Right was sharply escalated.
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