U.S.
Sandra Fluke campaigning hard for Obama
August 23, 2012Sandra Fluke, who has become a national figure in the fight for women's reproductive rights, is campaigning hard now for the re-election of President Obama.
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Akin just said out loud what fellow Republicans think
August 23, 2012U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin stirred up a storm when he said, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
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Romney’s welfare lies hide his plan to slash work support
August 21, 2012Romney launched attacks on President Obama's approach to welfare, analysts say, to deflect attention from his own budget proposals to gut programs that make it possible for people to seek employment.
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Today in labor history: Nat Turner begins anti-slavery revolt
August 21, 2012On Aug. 21, 1831 Nat Turner begins a bloody slave revolt in Southampton County, Va., killing about 60 whites and freeing slaves along the way. It is considered the largest revolt of enslaved people in U.S....
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Court bars much of Georgia and Alabama anti-immigrant laws
August 21, 2012The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit found that a section of Alabama's law interferes with children's constitutional right to education.
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