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GOP’s Obamacare repeal effort appears headed for failure, again
September 26, 2017Events in 91 cities opened up a final week push to head off the latest Republican effort to snatch health care away from millions.
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Columbia grad student workers: University stalling on bargaining
September 25, 2017Civil engineering PhD candidate Olga Brudastovax and her colleagues organized not only to get better pay, but to get paid, period.
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Mounties spying on Black Lives Matter in Canada
September 25, 2017The RCMP was looking for possible links between what it called “African-American hate groups” and Black Lives Matter in Canada.
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This week in history: Little Rock Central High School integrated
September 25, 2017A group of nine African-American students, enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was initially prevented by Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened with federal troops to accompany the...
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Germany: Nazis in Bundestag, Merkel stays, SPD collapses, Left Party gains
September 24, 2017Major media the world over said the German elections would be boring. When the polls closed, it was clear they could not have been more wrong.
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