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  • Lost Thunder: BLM preparing to execute 30,000 wild horses

    Lost Thunder: BLM preparing to execute 30,000 wild horses

    November 18, 2008

    The 30,000 wild horses on Death Row are nearly out of appeals. They were condemned by the Government Accounting Office just in time for Veteran's Day - a profoundly cynical act when you consider that countless...

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  • Last minute Bush push threatens workers, consumers and environment

    Last minute Bush push threatens workers, consumers and environment

    November 18, 2008

    The Bush administration is in a midnight frenzy, churning out a stream of regulations designed to cement its right-wing legacy of damage to the environment and attacks on workers and consumers. If successful, a virtual dream...

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  • Gay rights rallies held across the nation

    Gay rights rallies held across the nation

    November 17, 2008

    BOSTON — Gay rights supporters waving rainbow colors marched, chanted and danced in cities coast to coast Saturday to protest the vote that banned gay marriage in California and to urge supporters not to quit the...

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  • New president, new media

    New president, new media

    November 16, 2008

    CHICAGO (AP) — This isn't your grandfather's fireside chat. President-elect Barack Obama plans to tape a weekly address not just for radio listeners, as presidents have for years, but for YouTube Internet viewers, too. Well, what...

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  • Asians, Latinos, immigrants vote in record numbers

    Asians, Latinos, immigrants vote in record numbers

    November 14, 2008

    The We Are America Alliance (WAAA), a nonprofit, nonpartisan national coalition of 14 groups said in a post-election press conference that there was a record turnout of Asian, Latino and immigrant voters on Nov. 4. Shifting...

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