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Child rights activists Malala and Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize

October 10, 2014 By Mark Lewis And Karl Ritter

Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel winner ever as she and Kailash Satyarthi of India won the Nobel Peace Prize for working to protect children at great risk.

Courts block Voter ID schemes in Texas and Wisconsin

October 10, 2014 By Will Weissert And Todd Richmond

A federal judge likened Texas' strict voter ID requirement to a poll tax meant to suppress minority voter turnout and struck it down less than a month before Election Day.

Teamsters’ teach-in spotlights environmental injustice at hazardous Missouri landfill

October 10, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

The landfill contains 8,700 tons of un-containerized radioactive waste and there's a fire at the site.

Fast food workers to travel to Ferguson for weekend protests

October 9, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Members of the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago will travel with other community groups to Ferguson, Mo., on Friday, October 11.

Voter ID laws tossing hundreds of thousands off rolls

October 9, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Exclusion from the voting rolls this fall may affect countless close and key political races, such as the neck-and-neck Wisconsin gubernatorial battle.