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Factory farms exposed in recall of half billion eggs
August 23, 2010WASHINGTON---The recall of half a billion eggs blamed in a nationwide salmonella outbreak has pushed to the top of the Senate agenda enactment of a long-stalled bill to strengthen federal food safety enforcement.
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Disney worker rejects employer’s substitute hijab
August 23, 2010ANAHEIM, Calif. - Is Disney policy part of the Islamophobia being trumpeted by the ultra-right?
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Union delegates resolve to build record voter turnout
August 23, 2010HARTFORD, Conn. -- Union activists pledge to knock on 36,000 doors before Election Day in this battleground state.
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One hot August…city cuts protested
August 23, 2010DALLAS - Local politics and thermometers are breaking over the top in this part of the Sun Belt.
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World Notes: UN, Pakistan, Iran, Honduras, South Africa, Cuba
August 23, 2010The International Labor Organization issued a report August 12 indicating that at the end of 2009 81 million people between 15 and 24 years of age were unemployed, up from 11.9 percent in 2007 to 13...
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