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A major north-south interstate was cut off and 40,000 people were urged to leave their homes as snowmelt and rain swelled rivers and caused mudslides and avalanches that engulfed neighborhoods and roadways.
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The number of laid-off workers who are continuing to draw unemployment checks has jumped to the highest in more than a quarter-century and is likely to keep climbing this year - fresh evidence that people are finding it increasingly difficult to get
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Surrounded by cheering supporters, Republican Norm Coleman, who received 225 fewer votes than DFLer Al Franken in the U.S. Senate recount, vowed Tuesday to wage a court battle to challenge the outcome.
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A panel advising Gov. Jon Corzine on immigration issues is considering recommending "driver privilege cards" and in-state college discounts for undocumented immigrants. State lawmakers, who would have to sign off on both ideas legislatively, should
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Many of these same corporations that have pressured Congress to provide them a cheap labor supply have recently been pink-slipping their existing workers and seeking federal taxpayer bailouts.
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In a harsh denunciation of US immigration policies, the Fides news service-- an arm of the Vatican's Congregation for Evangelization-- has praised the US bishops' conference for opposing "the ineffectiveness ...
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A panel advising Governor Jon Corzine on immigrant issues is considering recommending the state allow undocumented immigrants "driver privilege cards" and in-state college tuition rates.
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Two men and a teenager were charged Tuesday in the alleged gang rape of a lesbian in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Regulation is everywhere. The extraordinary financial collapse of recent months has been commonly described as a testament to the failure of deregulation.
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The coal ash pond that ruptured and sent a billion gallons of toxic sludge across 300 acres of East Tennessee last month was only one of more than 1,300 similar dumps across the United States - most of them ...
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Jobs figures point to weak payrolls reportThe US private sector shed 693,000 jobs in December, according to a closely watched survey of business employment published on Wednesday.
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All that money you're saving these days at the gas pump? You might want to put it in the bank.
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The Food and Drug Administration says the industrial chemical melamine and a byproduct cyanuric acid have now been detected in four of 89 containers of infant formula made in the United States, doubling previously reported positive results. The cont
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On Christmas Eve, I appeared on Fox News to discuss the upcoming economic recovery package, only to be told that FDR's New Deal "prolonged the Great Depression" . This is the latest consevative talking point - ...
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when America sneezes, Black America catches a cold The current economic crisis has waged a particularly severe attack on the Black middle-class in the United States, experts say.
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