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Texans exhale as legislative session ends

June 5, 2015

In Texas, labor's victories consist not in getting legislation passed, but in stopping some of the worst of the worst.

Underfunding, one-person crews share responsibility for deadly Amtrak crash

June 5, 2015 By PAI

"It strains our collective memory to think of a case where we attack a problem by defunding it when we want a positive outcome."

Venezuela: two in custody in murder of Bolivarian legislator

June 5, 2015 By Emile Schepers

Last year, Robert Serra was murdered in his apartment in Caracas, along with Maria Herrera, his companion and political helper.

Today in history: first AIDS cases reported in 1981

June 5, 2015 By Special to People’s World

In its earliest phase, very little was known about transmission, and public anxiety grew, sometimes reaching hysterical proportions.

TPP’s evil twin advances in European Parliament

June 4, 2015 By Emile Schepers

The legislative arm of the European Union approved a position statement backing, with modifications, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.