WASHINGTON - This week, Senate Democrats will attempt to push through a jobs bill
that has stalled in the chamber for seven weeks.

Gen. David Petraeus briefly
collapsed mid-sentence at a Senate Armed Services hearing on
Afghanistan.

There’s a dream I keep having. Maybe you’ve been having it too -- in some form, at least. Or maybe it’s real; maybe we’re living it. It’s getting harder to tell these days, huh? In any case, it’s not a good dream. And it’s not over. It goes like this…

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June 10, 2010 -- Saeed Torabian, a spokesperson for the Tehran bus drivers’ union (the Vahed Syndicate), was arrested yesterday by Iranian security...

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Barriere Lake Algonquins protest Conservative government's attempt to assimilate their traditional political governance system: Political parties, major unions, Indigenous groups call for respect for community's Inherent rights

WASHINGTON - The timing of the publication of a major New York Times story on the vast untapped mineral wealth that lies beneath Afghanistan's soil is raising major questions about the intent of the Pentagon, which released the information.

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