U.S.
Working families force Arkansas runoff, boost Critz to Pa. win
May 20, 2010In a Pennsylvania special congressional election working family voters pushed hard and played a big role in electing Democrat Mark Critz over a Republican who staked a large part of his campaign on overturning health care...
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On immigration, second grader asks First Lady, “What about my mom?”
May 20, 2010WASHINGTON - As President Obama and President Calderon of Mexico held a press conference in the Rose Garden on immigration reform, another newsworthy event took place at an elementary school in nearby Silver Spring, Md.
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Tucson’s ethnic studies stems from desegregation decree
May 20, 2010The courses and curriculum banned by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer were originally created to help settle a race discrimination lawsuit in the 1970s.
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New York City rally in solidarity with University Of Puerto Rico students
May 19, 2010On the rainy afternoon of May 18, hundreds converged in front of the Manhattan office of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA), The group, made up of political, student and community representatives, came to demonstrate...
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Exxon Valdez survivors and Gulf residents fight the same battle
May 19, 2010They may be four thousand miles apart but the people in this region are joining a battle taken up more than 20 years ago by the residents of Cordova, a small Alaskan fishing village.
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