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'Portlandia' Inspires Fish Fraud Prevention Program
WASHINGTON -- Are you suspicious of seafood these days? It's understandable. In January, a This American Life investigation questioned whether some "imitation calamari" is actually...
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Rabbi Aaron Alexander: Be Like Busch: An Open Letter to the NRA Membership
We need to work together, you and me. This is not a red state/blue state issue. This is not even a Second Amendment issue. We don't want your guns. We do want to make our streets and schools and parks safe. For your sake. For our sake. For our children's sake.
Rabbi Aaron Alexander
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Obama To Speak At Planned Parenthood Gala
President Barack Obama will be the keynote speaker at Planned Parenthood's annual gala on April 25, the group announced Tuesday. "President Obama has done more...
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An Unknown Deportation Process
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital...
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Gutierrez, Ryan Call For Immigration Reform In Chicago
An unlikely congressional twosome came together in Chicago on Monday to call for comprehensive immigration reform. Chicago Democrat U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez was joined by...
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'Romneycare' In Massachusetts Means Fewer Big Bills For Boston Bombing Victims
The victims of the Boston Marathon bombing have endured pain and injury but they may be spared further insult in the form of huge medical...
Jeffrey Young
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Rand Paul Breaks With Fellow Republicans On Boston Suspect
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Monday that Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should not be treated as an enemy combatant, a stance that puts him...
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Richard (RJ) Eskow: Austerity's Curveballs
The opportunists of austerity are as plentiful and as shameless as their military peers were regarding Iraq, and they share the same motivations: "tawdry ambitions, spineless leadership, and fear."
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Guantanamo Hunger Strike Holds, Half Of Detainees Involved: Military
Over half of Guantanamo's 166 detainees are officially recognized as hunger strikers, a military spokesman on the remote Navy base said Tuesday. Lt. Col. Sam...
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Hilde Schwab: A Guide to Scaling Social Innovation
We still have enormous hills to climb in changing mindsets, improving enabling environments and correcting market failures. But I think it's worth pausing for a moment and taking stock of the global trends.
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Eboo Patel: Why Interfaith Efforts Matter More Than Ever
These times require all of us to be interfaith leaders, to signal clearly that the worst elements of every tradition represent nobody.
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State Finishes Effort To Eliminate Gender Bias In Statutes
By Laura L. Myers SEATTLE, April 22 (Reuters) - Washington state's governor signed into law on Monday the final piece of a six-year effort to...
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Drug Testing Drama Prompts State Legislature To Make Interesting Choice
As drug testing bills aimed at the poor and jobless have entered several state legislatures this year, one group of lawmakers decided Monday to extend...
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Bush Library Opening Offers Rare Opportunity
* Obama, both Bushes, Clinton and Carter to attend ceremony * Political enemies with mutual respect * The closest ties: Bill Clinton and George H.W....
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New Critique Raised Over Pipeline Analysis
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency again is raising objections to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to...
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Catholic Bishops: Don't Let Boston Attacks Derail Immigration Reform
By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) Leading U.S. Catholic bishops on Monday (April 22) denounced efforts to use the Boston Marathon bombings to derail...
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U.S. Christians Rally Around Home-Schooling Family Facing Deportation
By Krista Kapralos Religion News Service (RNS) When Uwe and Hannelore Romeike's asylum case is argued Tuesday (April 23) before a panel of federal judges,...
Jahnabi Barooah
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Obama Hosting Female Senators For Dinner
WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has invited the 20 women elected to the U.S. Senate for dinner at the White House on...
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TSA Delaying Start Of Controversial Policy
WASHINGTON — Airline passengers will have to leave their knives at home after all. And their bats and golf clubs. A policy change scheduled to...
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Chris Weigant: Immigration Reform's Chances
I am extremely optimistic that a comprehensive immigration bill can pass the Senate, and with overwhelming support. I am a lot less optimistic that any immigration bill whatsoever can pass the House, but I think the chances for passing their own bill (rather than the Senate's) are greater.
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