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		<title>Domestic violence groups say killing shows importance of emergency shelters for women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Watkins</dc:creator>
		
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Advocacy groups: Stabbing shows worth of shelters

LOS ANGELES — Police say Flor Medrano did the right thing when her ex-boyfriend threatened her: She went to a police station and reported him. Still, it wasn&#8217;t enough to save her life.
The 30-year-old mother spent more than five hours at the Wilshire station, where she was counseled about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy groups claim they chased Lou Dobbs off CNN but cable head says pressure didn&#8217;t do it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bauder</dc:creator>
		
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Advocacy groups claim victory after Dobbs leaves

NEW YORK — CNN moved swiftly to replace Lou Dobbs in its nightly lineup with John King, who said Thursday that all views would be welcome on his politically-oriented talk show when it debuts early next year.
Dobbs&#8217; abrupt exit prompted a victory lap by advocacy groups that had sought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border advocacy group says $6 billion, 5,000 inspectors needed to bolster land port security</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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Texas group warns of weaknesses at land ports

McALLEN, Texas — The country&#8217;s understaffed land ports of entry need massive investments in infrastructure, technology and personnel to avoid becoming the path of choice for human and drug smugglers, according to a report released Wednesday by a border advocacy group.
The Texas Border Coalition, a group representing border [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMA opposes &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell;&#8217; says gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsey Tanner</dc:creator>
		
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CHICAGO — The American Medical Association on Tuesday voted to oppose the military&#8217;s &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; policy, and declared that gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities.
The nation&#8217;s largest doctors&#8217; group stopped short of saying it would seek to overturn marriage bans, but its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill heading to Obama would boost federal arts, cultural funding to highest level in 16 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett Zongker</dc:creator>
		
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Arts agencies to get highest funding in 16 years
WASHINGTON — The National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities are expected to receive their highest levels of funding in 16 years from a bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law by this weekend.
Under the Interior Appropriations Bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN stays away from Lou Dobbs during four-hour documentary on Latinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Bauder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — CNN is airing a four-hour special on Latinos in America this week that ignores its own commentator Lou Dobbs, whose persistent advocacy against illegal immigration has angered many Hispanics.

Some activists have started an anti-Dobbs petition drive, and an advocacy group&#8217;s effort to criticize Dobbs within the documentary was turned down by CNN. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama officials hear from fisherman, scientists about crisis in coastal Louisiana</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cain Burdeau</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS — Fishermen, scientists and public officials on Monday urged the Obama administration to deal with south Louisiana&#8217;s dire problems before the region is lost to the Gulf of Mexico.

Several top officials with the Obama administration came to New Orleans for one of several public meetings on ocean policy being held around the nation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Area pit bull advocacy group says Vick declined invitation to visit his former dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Dubow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OAKLAND, Calif. — A Bay Area pit bull advocacy group says Michael Vick has declined an invitation to visit eight of his former dogs this weekend when the Philadelphia Eagles are in town to play the Oakland Raiders.

The group BAD RAP (Bay Area Doglovers Responsible About Pitbulls) told The Associated Press on Wednesday that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax them, not us, interest groups say to Congress&#8217; health proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Babington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Interest groups battle to deflect health taxes

WASHINGTON — Insurance companies, unions, medical device makers and others in the health care industry are furiously lobbying lawmakers to shift burdens onto someone else — anyone else — before they find themselves saddled with billions of dollars in taxes under new health care legislation.
Their gain would be another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utah Gov. Gary Herbert meets with gay rights group after opposing anti-discrimination laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brock Vergakis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert met with a gay rights advocacy group Tuesday for the first time since saying he opposes providing legal protections for gay and transgender people.

Herbert took office in mid-August after Jon Huntsman resigned to become U.S. ambassador to China.
Within weeks of his inauguration, Herbert said he doesn&#8217;t think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utah Gov. Gary Herbert meets with gay rights groups after opposing anti-discrimination laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brock Vergakis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert met with gay rights advocacy groups Tuesday for the first time since saying he opposes providing legal protections for gay and transgender people.

Herbert took office in mid-August after Jon Huntsman resigned to become U.S. ambassador to China.
Within weeks of his inauguration, Herbert said he doesn&#8217;t think it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIDS group files complaints against LA porn companies that don&#8217;t require condom use in films</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaya Tayefe Mohajer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — An AIDS advocacy group filed complaints Thursday with state officials against 16 production companies that show unprotected sex in porn movies.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed the action with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, alleging the practice amounts to unsafe behavior in a California workplace.
&#8220;We will not stop until there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former ACORN field director in Las Vegas to testify against group in voter fraud probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oskar Garcia</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — A former Las Vegas director for a political advocacy group accused of illegally paying canvassers to register voters during last year&#8217;s presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and agreed to testify against the group and another employee.

Chief Deputy Nevada Attorney General Conrad Hafen said Wednesday that Christopher Edwards&#8217; plea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration rights activists press ahead with lobbying plans to reinvigorate reform efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sophia Tareen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO — Activists disappointed that the Obama administration has not given immigration top billing are trying to yank the issue off the back burner by pressing ahead with lobbying and legislation plans they hope will reinvigorate reform efforts.

By honing in on national lawmakers they believe are sympathetic or can be swayed to support their cause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-meat advocacy group sues in NJ to force food-makers to put warning labels on hot dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWARK, N.J. — Hot dogs may be as American as baseball and apple pie, but an anti-meat advocacy group says they&#8217;re hazardous to your health and should carry warning labels.

The Cancer Project, an offshoot of a pro-vegetarian organization, wants to force hot dog makers to use warning labels. The organization filed a lawsuit Wednesday in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy group pushing for Ensign investigation told to send its concerns to FBI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice has told an advocacy group that concerns should go to the FBI over whether Sen. John Ensign violated campaign finance law with payments to a former mistress.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had asked the Justice Dept. to investigate whether severance payments made to former campaign aide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pa. braces for economic impact as first big wave of jobless exhausts their benefits checks</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pa-braces-for-economic-impact-as-first-big-wave-of-jobless-exhausts-their-benefits-checks-113787/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Levy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HARRISBURG, Pa. — Thousands of jobless Pennsylvanians are joining the growing ranks of people around the country who are exhausting unemployment benefits, as some experts worry about another blow to a stumbling economy.

Gov. Ed Rendell said 17,800 Pennsylvanians exhausted their jobless benefits in the week that ended Saturday, the first big wave of Pennsylvanians to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where can U-lock up? As old-style meters expire, cyclists seek new places to park in cities</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/where-can-u-lock-up-as-old-style-meters-expire-cyclists-seek-new-places-to-park-in-cities-111052/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Walters</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA — Old-style parking meters, reviled over the decades by coin-starved drivers, are currently getting plenty of love from bicyclists worried about their possible demise.

In cities nationwide, traditional meters are being replaced by the thousands with multi-space kiosks where drivers pay electronically. Those upgrades have urban cyclists fretting that time is running out on meter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FACT CHECK: Did Sotomayor really compare abortion to slavery in legal briefs?</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/fact-check-did-sotomayor-really-compare-abortion-to-slavery-in-legal-briefs-109922/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Apuzzo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents saw their issue take center stage when Sen. Lindsey Graham questioned Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her 12-year tenure with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

In particular, the South Carolina Republican asked Tuesday about legal briefs the group filed arguing for an expansion of abortion rights. In one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education study finds that improvement for all students helps racial disparity remain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Libby Quaid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Despite unprecedented efforts to improve minority achievement in the past decade, the gap between black and white students remains frustratingly wide, according to an Education Department report released Tuesday.

There is good news in the report: Reading and math scores are improving for black students in public schools across the country. But because white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy groups sue in hopes of forcing states to increase low-income voter registration</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/advocacy-groups-sue-in-hopes-of-forcing-states-to-increase-low-income-voter-registration-104537/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nedra Pickler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — States across the country are violating part of the federal &#8220;motor voter&#8221; law requiring voter registration help for low-income residents, according to a coalition of advocacy groups trying to force change through the courts.

The groups filed lawsuits in Indiana and New Mexico on Thursday on the heels of a successful settlement in Missouri. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals court tosses antitrust claims lodged against Abbott Labs over AIDS drug cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit accusing Abbott Laboratories of antitrust violations over a sudden 400-percent price hike of a popular AIDS drug.

Advocacy groups and drug benefit providers sued Abbott in 2004. They alleged the North Chicago, Ill., drugmaker raised the price of the HIV-fighting Norvir to stifle competition and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Republicans, outnumbered and politically wary, lack cohesive opposition to Sotomayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A week before her Senate hearings, Republicans are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, unable to find an effective message about why she&#8217;s not fit to serve.

Blame the tricky politics of opposing the woman who would be the first Hispanic justice, especially for a party struggling to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP sources: Puerto Rican advocacy group sends documents to Senate panel evaluating Sotomayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Puerto Rican legal advocacy group late Tuesday sent a trove of documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s past to the Senate panel considering her nomination.

Latino Justice PRLDEF sent the Judiciary Committee more than 350 pages of documents from the 12 years Sotomayor spent on its board, opening what could be an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puerto Rican legal advocacy group to send documents to Senate panel evaluating Sotomayor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Puerto Rican civil rights leader said Tuesday he was ready to start sending a trove of documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s past to the Senate panel considering her nomination.

Cesar Perales, the head of the legal advocacy group LatinoJustice PRLDEF said he&#8217;d send the Judiciary Committee minutes of meetings Sotomayor participated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy groups want current, former CIA lawyers disbarred for their role in interrogation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A coalition of advocacy groups is asking the District of Columbia and New York bar associations to disbar three government attorneys for approving and enabling the CIA&#8217;s harsh interrogation program.

The groups are asking the legal panels to revoke the district law licenses of acting CIA general counsel John Rizzo and former CIA Counterterrorism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owners of forestland could reap big money from massive climate bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Clare Jalonick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — For years, landowners have gotten paid for not farming. Now they may get paid for not cutting down trees.

While U.S. families could see their annual energy bills rise hundreds of dollars under a massive climate bill that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are trying to push through the House, owners of large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama announces agreement with pharmaceutical companies on Medicare drug coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the pharmaceutical industry&#8217;s agreement to help close a gap in Medicare&#8217;s drug coverage, calling the pact a step forward in the push for overhaul of the nation&#8217;s health care system.

Obama said that drug companies have pledged to spend $80 billion over the next decade to help reduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy group: Bias killings of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people highest since 1999</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Franklin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people killed in bias-motivated incidents increased by 28 percent in 2008 compared to a year ago, according to a national coalition of advocacy groups.

Last year&#8217;s 29 killings was the highest recorded by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs since 1999, when it documented the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holocaust museum shooting signal of increasing violence from threatened whites, some say</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Washington</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Crazies. Lone nut jobs. Isolated loonies. Those are frequent descriptions of people like James von Brunn, the 88-year-old white supremacist accused of opening fire at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and killing a black guard.

Others believe he represents something more dangerous: a growing racist movement motivated by a number of converging factors, including the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group backed by Bono, Geldof, says Italy fails give promised Africa aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raphael Satter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON — Italy has failed to meet its commitments to reduce poverty in Africa and has lost credibility in its relationship with the region, an aid group backed by Bono and Bob Geldof warned Thursday.

The G-8 — the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia — laid out ambitious plans in 2005 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meltdown 101: Can consumers expect any more protections when it comes to their money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candice Choi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — With all the talk about the need for greater economic oversight, what new protections can people expect when it comes to their day-to-day finances?

The question is still mostly up in the air, but there are some hints about what reforms could be around the corner.
Among the more notable actions so far is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPIN METER: Is Sotomayor a blue-collar Latina or wealthy elite? Careful how you answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 05:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Theimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — There are two sides to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: a Latina from a blue-collar family and a wealthy member of America&#8217;s power elite.

The White House portrays Sotomayor as a living image of the American dream, though its telling of the rags-to-riches story emphasizes the rags, a more politically appealing narrative, and plays [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPIN METER: Is Sotomayor a blue-collar Latina or wealthy elite? Careful how you answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 01:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Theimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — There are two sides to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: a Latina from a blue-collar family and a wealthy member of America&#8217;s power elite.

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		<title>SPIN METER: Is Sotomayor a blue-collar Latina or wealthy elite? Careful how you answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 21:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Is Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor a blue-collar Latina or wealthy elite?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Theimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>SPIN METER: Is Sotomayor a blue-collar Latina or wealthy elite? Careful how you answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Theimer</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Lawyer: Myanmar democracy leader Suu Kyi charged with violating house arrest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar&#8217;s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was charged Thursday with violating terms of her house arrest in a bizarre case involving an American man who swam across a lake to sneak into her home, her lawyer said.

Suu Kyi, whose latest detention period officially ends May 27, could face a prison term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer says Myanmar democracy leader Suu Kyi to be tried over US intruder at her home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 12:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar&#8217;s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken by armed escort Thursday to a prison compound where she will be tried in connection with an American man&#8217;s stealthy entry into her home last week, her lawyer said.

Lawyer Kyi Win said that Suu Kyi did not invite the man to her compound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawyer says Myanmar democracy leader Suu Kyi to be tried over US intruder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar&#8217;s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken by armed escort Thursday to a prison compound where she will be tried in connection with the intrusion of an American man who sneaked into her compound, her lawyer said.

Such a trial could justify another extension of Suu Kyi&#8217;s yearslong detention, which officially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress, interests groups eye transportation bill expected to total about $500 billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lowy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — It was an ironic start to legislative efforts to tackle the nation&#8217;s transportation woes.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar completely missed a news conference on innovative transit programs Thursday because his car was stuck in traffic, behind an accident in a congested commuter tunnel.
The Minnesota Democrat has another news conference scheduled [...]]]></description>
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