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		<title>End of primary challenge marks smoother sailing for NY Sen. Gillibrand in 2010 election</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Bauman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, N.Y. —Kirsten Gillibrand didn&#8217;t have the pedigree of a Kennedy, Clinton or a Cuomo. She was not, her critics said, up to the challenge of winning a tough, New York brawl for the U.S. Senate seat Gov. David Paterson handed her.

But on Friday, the last of the established threats to her candidacy backed away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good at breaking down barriers, Sotomayor now must learn to open the door, other court rituals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON —Sonia Sotomayor has gained admission to the Marble Palace. Now she has to figure out how the Supreme Court works.

When do you speak up? How do you find your way around a building torn apart by renovation? If someone knocks at the door while the justices are meeting in their private conference room, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate roll vote: Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s confirmation as a Supreme Court associate justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 68-31 roll call Thursday by which the Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor, of New York, to be a Supreme Court associate justice.

A &#8220;yes&#8221; vote is a vote to confirm the nomination.
Voting yes were 57 Democrats, 9 Republicans and 2 independents.
Voting no were 0 Democrats and 31 Republicans.


ALABAMA


Sessions (R), No; Shelby (R), No.


ALASKA


Begich (D), Yes; Murkowski [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor watches Senate&#8217;s confirmation vote among colleagues at US courthouse in NYC</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Sonia Sotomayor bathed in applause from friends and colleagues at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan Thursday as the Senate voted to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.

The 55-year-old New Yorker watched the vote unfold on large-screen televisions in a conference room on the 8th floor overflowing with other judges and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor confirmed as first Hispanic Supreme Court justice in historic Senate vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor won confirmation Thursday as the nation&#8217;s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, a history-making Senate vote that capped a summer-long debate heavy with ethnic politics and hints of high court fights to come.

The third woman in court history, she&#8217;ll be sworn in Saturday as the 111th justice and the first nominated by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama hails confirmation of Sotomayor as Supreme Court justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lauding the barrier-breaking confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.

Said the president: &#8220;With this historic vote, the Senate has affirmed that Justice Sotomayor has the intellect, the temperament, the history, the integrity and the independence of mind to ably serve on our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate confirms Sotomayor, first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, in historic vote</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/senate-confirms-sotomayor-first-hispanic-supreme-court-justice-in-historic-vote-132836/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.

The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama&#8217;s first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve.
Democrats praised the 55-year-old Sotomayor as a mainstream moderate. But most Republicans voted against her, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kolkata commuters suffer as vehicle ban is implemented</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KOLKATA - Commuters here had a tough time as a large number of buses, auto rickshaws and taxis kept off the roads Saturday and authorities seized over-15-year-old commercial vehicles following a ban by the Calcutta High Court.

Protesting vehicle operators damaged six buses and put up road blocks at different localities across the city, police said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget-balancing paradox: States spending big to hold special sessions aimed at saving money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bluestein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA — States are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece on special legislative sessions whose chief purpose, ironically, is to trim more funding from their eroding budgets.

Analysts expect the number of special sessions, a rarity in many states, to soar as governors are left with little choice but to herd lawmakers back to statehouses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduras negotiations snag on unity government proposal, but sides agree to more talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marianela Jimenez</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Honduras&#8217; interim government rejected a mediator&#8217;s proposal to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya and form a national unity government, throwing negotiations on settling the political crisis into doubt Saturday night.

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who is mediating the U.S.-backed talks, said both sides agreed to hold more talks Sunday, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme court clears Pakistani opposition leader Sharif, lifts ban on running for office</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Munir Ahmad</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD — Pakistan&#8217;s top court has acquitted opposition leader Nawaz Sharif of hijacking charges stemming from the 1999 coup against his government. The ruling removes the final ban on Sharif running for public office.

Sharif had been banned from office after being found guilty of hijacking Gen. Pervez Musharraf&#8217;s plane in 1999. Sharif was prime minister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State governments to get Rs.112 billion to restore forests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - The Rs.11,200 crore (Rs.112 billion/$2.2 billion) released by the Supreme Court last week for compensatory afforestation will be used to improve the tree cover in six million hectares of degraded forest land all over India, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Wednesday.

The money will be sent to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator looks for answers from Sotomayor on treatment of terror suspects</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/senator-looks-for-answers-from-sotomayor-on-treatment-of-terror-suspects-109436/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee appears to be trying to determine how Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor might rule in cases involving U.S. treatment of terror suspects.

In response to questioning from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sotomayor said she believes the nation is at war and that there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radio Pakistan&#8217;s Dalit propaganda exposed</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/radio-pakistans-dalit-propaganda-exposed-108918/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/radio-pakistans-dalit-propaganda-exposed-108918/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ABOHAR - Radio Pakistan, in  its  recent  Punjabi Durbar  programme, has said Scheduled Castes (SCs)  children  are being  denied admission in schools in India, but nothing  can  be further from the truth.

Shyam  Lal  Arora, the district president of the  Recognised  and Affiliated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP to confront Sotomayor with her own words at Tuesday&#8217;s session</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/gop-to-confront-sotomayor-with-her-own-words-at-tuesdays-session-108689/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/gop-to-confront-sotomayor-with-her-own-words-at-tuesdays-session-108689/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Sherman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans plan to confront Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with her own words from speeches years ago and more recently decisions she rendered as appeals court judge that were later reversed by the Supreme Court.

Sotomayor&#8217;s confirmation hearing resumes in the Senate Judiciary Committee with question-and-answer rounds that are expected to stretch from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Republican Party uses Sotomayor hearings to define itself but treads carefully</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/analysis-republican-party-uses-sotomayor-hearings-to-define-itself-but-treads-carefully-108384/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hirschfeld Davis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans came to praise Sonia Sotomayor, but not necessarily to vote for her.

That was the straddle that numerous GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee attempted at the opening of hearings Monday on the woman who would be the first Latina to sit on the Supreme Court. Seizing on their best chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Both sides in Honduran coup dispute in Costa Rica for negotiations, but refuse to budge</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/both-sides-in-honduran-coup-dispute-in-costa-rica-for-negotiations-but-refuse-to-budge-104660/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/both-sides-in-honduran-coup-dispute-in-costa-rica-for-negotiations-but-refuse-to-budge-104660/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan Carlos Llorca</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Leaders of the government that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in a coup arrived in Costa Rica Thursday for talks aimed at resolving the crisis, but with both sides questioning the other&#8217;s claim to the presidency, there seemed to be very little common ground.

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judicial reforms will be initiated in two months, says Moily</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judicial-reforms-will-be-initiated-in-two-months-says-moily-104553/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judicial-reforms-will-be-initiated-in-two-months-says-moily-104553/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - The Government  is  working  for  a national  consensus on judicial reforms, and within a  couple  of months  the  judicial  reforms will  be  implemented,  Union  Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said.

Speaking during the Question Hour Moily said the process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comedian-turned-politician Franken sworn in as Democratic senators from Minnesota</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/comedian-turned-politician-franken-sworn-in-as-democratic-senators-from-minnesota-102004/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/comedian-turned-politician-franken-sworn-in-as-democratic-senators-from-minnesota-102004/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry C. Jackson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Al Franken became a senator on Tuesday, completing the transformation from comedian to politician.

The Minnesota Democrat&#8217;s swearing-in marked the end of an eight-month political and legal struggle and drew thunderous applause and a standing ovation in the Senate chamber. His presence gives Democrats 60 votes, enough to thwart possible Republican filibusters.
Vice President Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s top court refuses to replace hanging of convicts with lethal injections</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/indias-top-court-refuses-to-replace-hanging-of-convicts-with-lethal-injections-101435/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/indias-top-court-refuses-to-replace-hanging-of-convicts-with-lethal-injections-101435/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI — India&#8217;s top court has refused to replace hanging with lethal injection as the country&#8217;s sole method of execution, saying there is no evidence it is less painful than other ways.

Monday&#8217;s ruling rejected a petition by rights activist Ashok Kumar Walia, who said hanging was a &#8220;cruel and painful&#8221; method of execution and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ousted Honduran president vows to try again after plane blocked from landing in homeland</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ousted-honduran-president-vows-to-try-again-after-plane-blocked-from-landing-in-homeland-100292/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ousted-honduran-president-vows-to-try-again-after-plane-blocked-from-landing-in-homeland-100292/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Weissert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras&#8217; interim government closed its main airport to all flights on Monday after blocking the runway to prevent the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Clashes with his supporters caused the first death in a week of protests.

Police and soldiers blanketed the streets of the capital early Monday, enforcing a sunset-to-sunrise curfew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduran government&#8217;s international isolation grows; demonstrators demand return of president</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/honduran-governments-international-isolation-grows-demonstrators-demand-return-of-president-97140/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/honduran-governments-international-isolation-grows-demonstrators-demand-return-of-president-97140/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Weissert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated Wednesday for the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who vowed to fly home this weekend despite a warrant for his arrest. Thousands more rallied in favor of the military-backed government.

Newly appointed President Roberto Micheletti said it would take a foreign invasion to put Zelaya back in power, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush appointed Fed judges question Obama on terror policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama&#8217;s claims of broad executive authority to carry out the war on terror are drawing fire from an unexpected source: federal judges nominated by President George W. Bush, who asserted the sweeping powers in the first place.

In recent weeks, three different Bush appointees considering cases relating to war-on-terror detainees have rejected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court won&#8217;t block Cablevision&#8217;s remote-storage digital video recording systems</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/supreme-court-wont-block-cablevisions-remote-storage-digital-video-recording-systems-94757/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/supreme-court-wont-block-cablevisions-remote-storage-digital-video-recording-systems-94757/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Hollywood studios and television networks lost their bid Monday for the Supreme Court to block the use of a new digital video recorder system that could make it cheaper and easier for viewers to record shows and watch them when they want, without commercials.

The justices decline to hear arguments on whether Cablevision Systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court says state attorneys general must go to court to investigate national banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday that state attorneys general can investigate national banks for discrimination and other crimes, but only with a court&#8217;s help.

The high court ruled that a state attorney general cannot on his own issue a subpoena against a bank that has branches in that state and others. However, the court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court won&#8217;t decide whether law making doctor&#8217;s prescription pad private constitutional</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/supreme-court-wont-decide-whether-law-making-doctors-prescription-pad-private-constitutional-94694/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won&#8217;t stop the state of New Hampshire from making doctors&#8217; prescription-writing habits confidential over the objection of companies who analyze and sell that information.

The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from IMS Health Inc. of Norwalk, Conn.; and Verispan LLC of Yardley, Pa.
Those two companies collect, analyze [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walgreen, Bank of America, Discover, Valero Energy are among big market movers Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

NYSE:
Walgreen Co., down $1.79 at $29.64
The drugstore operator&#8217;s prescription sales were up, but higher discounting and administrative expenses ate into third-quarter profit.
Bank of America Corp., down $1.28 at $11.94
The bank&#8217;s shares sold off with broader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court upholds permit to dump waste from Alaska gold mine into lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A mining company was given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court on Monday to dump waste from an Alaskan gold mine into a nearby 23-acre lake, although the material will kill all of the lake&#8217;s fish.

The court said that the federal government acted legally in declaring the waste left after metals are extracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide bomber detonates car, critically injuring president of Russian region of Ingushetia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shamsudin Bokov</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NAZRAN, Russia — A suicide bomber badly wounded a provincial president in Russia&#8217;s North Caucasus on Monday, an assassination attempt that undermined the Kremlin&#8217;s claim that it has brought stability to the predominantly Muslim region.

Yunus Bek Yevkurov was the third top official to be wounded or killed in the last three weeks in the area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghaziabad&#8217;s green lungs dying in face of garbage onslaught</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ghaziabads-green-lungs-dying-in-face-of-garbage-onslaught-83732/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S.P. Singh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GHAZIABAD - Green activists call it mass murder. Thousands of trees in a forest patch that serves as the green lungs of Ghaziabad are dying a slow death because of  negligence of the very civic agency that had once helped create it painstakingly.

Unauthorised dumping of garbage,  sewage water, unabated fodder collection and forest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senators want federal wage, hour rules applied to home health care workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Hananel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic senators on Thursday urged the Labor Department to reverse a Bush administration policy by extending federal wage and hour laws to home health care workers.

Most domestic workers are covered by laws governing minimum wage and overtime pay, but home workers that care for the elderly and disabled have long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals court blocks release of detainee abuse pictures so government can go to Supreme Court</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/appeals-court-blocks-release-of-detainee-abuse-pictures-so-government-can-go-to-supreme-court-79349/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — The U.S. government can keep pictures of detainee abuse secret while it asks the Supreme Court to permanently block release of the photographs on the grounds they could incite violence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, a federal appeals court said Thursday.

The one-paragraph ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lab tests show many supplements have contaminants, unlabeled contents, misstated amounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilynn Marchione</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lead in ginkgo pills. Arsenic in herbals. Bugs in a baby&#8217;s colic and teething syrup. Toxic metals and parasites are part of nature, and all of these have been found in &#8220;natural&#8221; products and dietary supplements in recent years.

Set aside the issue of whether vitamin and herbal supplements do any good.
Are they safe? Is what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiat says it won&#8217;t walk away from Chrysler deal despite US Supreme Court delays</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MILAN — Italian automaker Fiat said Tuesday it will not turn its back on a deal to acquire a controlling stake in Chrysler despite a U.S. Supreme Court stay on the sale.

Under terms of the agreement, Fiat has the option to abandon the deal if it is not completed by June 15.
&#8220;Fiat won&#8217;t walk away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s parliament hails &#8216;miracle&#8217; of Indian democracy (Lead)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gurmukh Singh</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TORONTO - The election of Meira Kumar as India&#8217;s first woman and Dalit speaker figured in the Canadian parliament Friday, with Indian-origin MP Deepak Obhrai describing it as a  &#8220;miracle&#8221; of Indian democracy.

Obhrai, 58, who as the parliamentary secretary to Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon is the highest-ranking Indian in the government, said: &#8220;Wednesday, Meira [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill to regulate tobacco products a sharp departure for industry-friendly Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Abrams</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In the half-century since the surgeon general issued his culture-changing report linking smoking to lung cancer, the tobacco industry has had little trouble defeating efforts to regulate cigarettes and other products. That could change this year.

The Senate is debating legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to control ingredients going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saying Sotomayor: Pronouncing judge&#8217;s name gives trouble to some</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deepti Hajela</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — In the week since she was named as President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s name has been on a lot of people&#8217;s lips.

But people have been saying it differently, touching off culture wars commotion in the process.
She pronounces her own name like this: soh-toh-my-YOR&#8217; — accent on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zia-ul-Haq&#8217;s son says he got Zardari released from jail in 2005</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/zia-ul-haqs-son-says-he-got-zardari-released-from-jail-in-2005-69501/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League leader  Ejaz-ul-Haq  has  revealed that Pakistan President Asif Ali  Zardari  had secretly sought his help in 2005 to secure his release from jail.

Haq,  the  son  of late  president  General  Zia-ul-Haq,  further claimed  that  he  delivered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge agrees to delay legal rights case for Bagram detainees until government can appeal</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-agrees-to-delay-legal-rights-case-for-bagram-detainees-until-government-can-appeal-69261/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/judge-agrees-to-delay-legal-rights-case-for-bagram-detainees-until-government-can-appeal-69261/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nedra Pickler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday put a hold on his groundbreaking order allowing detainees at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan access to U.S. courts until an appeals court can rule on the case involving prisoners held in an active war zone.

The Obama administration, in arguments similar to those made by the Bush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-abortion groups fear political backlash to doctor&#8217;s slaying may hurt their cause</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/anti-abortion-groups-fear-political-backlash-to-doctors-slaying-may-hurt-their-cause-68325/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Crary</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Anti-abortion leaders are deeply worried that the Obama administration and other Democrats may try to capitalize on the slaying of Dr. George Tiller to defuse the abortion issue in upcoming Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Many anti-abortion groups condemned the killing of Tiller, a prominent abortion provider in Kansas. But they expressed concern that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sotomayor nomination &#8216;virtually filibuster-proof,&#8217; leading Democratic senator says</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/sotomayor-nomination-virtually-filibuster-proof-leading-democratic-senator-says-68263/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/sotomayor-nomination-virtually-filibuster-proof-leading-democratic-senator-says-68263/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A leading Democratic senator says that President Barack Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court nominee is &#8220;virtually filibuster-proof&#8221; when his colleagues look at her record.

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said Sunday that Sonia Sotomayor&#8217;s nomination is heading toward confirmation. He says she has a compelling history and a moderate record.
Schumer downplayed Sotomayor&#8217;s comments about her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House: Sotomayor used &#8216;poor&#8217; word choice in controversial 2001 speech</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/white-house-sotomayor-used-poor-word-choice-in-controversial-2001-speech-67299/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/white-house-sotomayor-used-poor-word-choice-in-controversial-2001-speech-67299/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 03:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — In a bit damage control, the White House on Friday said Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor acknowledges she chose her words poorly by saying in 2001 that a female Hispanic judge would often reach a &#8220;better&#8221; conclusion than a white male judge. &#8220;I think if she had the speech to do all over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor a blue-collar Latina or wealthy elite?</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/is-supreme-court-nominee-sotomayor-a-blue-collar-latina-or-wealthy-elite-66815/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/is-supreme-court-nominee-sotomayor-a-blue-collar-latina-or-wealthy-elite-66815/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 16:22:29 +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>Riot tainted Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani granted bail</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/riot-tainted-gujarat-minister-maya-kodnani-granted-bail-64450/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/riot-tainted-gujarat-minister-maya-kodnani-granted-bail-64450/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AHMEDABAD - A local court Tuesday granted bail to former Gujarat minister Maya Kodnani, who has been charged with abetting mobs in the Naroda Gam and Naroda Patia localities of Ahmedabad in the 2002 riots in the state.



Mitesh Amin, counsel for the former women&#8217;s welfare and higher education minister, told IANS that the Ahmedabad city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guantanamo detainee released to France: Report</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/guantanamo-detainee-released-to-france-report-63298/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/guantanamo-detainee-released-to-france-report-63298/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 02:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - A Guantanamo detainee who won a landmark case against the Bush administration has been released to France, the Washington Post reported Friday.



Lakhdar Boumediene, a 43-year-old Algerian, was flown from the naval installation on Cuba to join relatives in France after the French government agreed earlier this month to accept him, the newspaper reported, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amarinder&#8217;s plea for Badal&#8217;s trial outside Punjab dismissed</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/amarinders-plea-for-badals-trial-outside-punjab-dismissed-62728/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a lawsuit seeking transfer outside the state of the trial of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his two relatives for their alleged role in a corruption case.



A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan dismissed the lawsuit by the state&#8217;s former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambulance takes suspected Nazi guard Demjanjuk from home to immigration offices in Cleveland</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ambulance-takes-suspected-nazi-guard-demjanjuk-from-home-to-immigration-offices-in-cleveland-59656/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 04:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.r. Kropko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEVELAND, Ohio — Suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was taken from his home by ambulance Monday and driven to a U.S. immigration office as agents prepared to deport him to Germany.

Flanked by a motorcade of several unmarked vehicles, the ambulance was waved down a ramp that leads to the basement of Cleveland&#8217;s downtown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Justice Ministry says suspected Nazi guard Demjanjuk should arrive from Ohio by Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.r. Kropko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEVEN HILLS, Ohio — Suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk is expected to be deported to Germany by Tuesday, a German Justice Ministry spokesman said as the retired autoworker remained inside his suburban Cleveland home.

Demjanjuk (pronounced dem-YAHN&#8217;-yuk) is wanted on a Munich arrest warrant that accuses him of 29,000 counts of accessory to murder as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Ministry: Germany expects Demjanjuk to arrive Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN — Germany&#8217;s Justice Ministry says suspected Nazi guard John Demjanjuk could arrive in Munich from the United States as early as Tuesday.

Demjanjuk is sought on an arrest warrant in Munich on suspicion of 29,000 counts of accessory to murder at the Sobibor concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poachers shot dead tiger in Goa reserve, says wildlife activist</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/poachers-shot-dead-tiger-in-goa-reserve-says-wildlife-activist-55044/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 14:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ians</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PANAJI - A tiger believed to have died after being caught in a steel trap in Goa&#8217;s Sattari wildlife sanctuary was actually shot dead by poachers, a wildlife activist said Saturday while alleging that the forest department was trying to cover up the incident.



Noted wildlife conservationist Rajendra Kerkar had last month provided the media with [...]]]></description>
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