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Spying uncovered: Documents show state police monitored peace and anti-death penalty groups
Source: Baltimore Sun
Original Source By Nick Madigan, Sun Reporter Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly released…
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Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions
Source: The New York Times
Original Source By ADAM LIPTAK President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. But a second, overlapping 5-to-4 majority…
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Rogers: House OKs Child Safety Program Extension
Original Source U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, MI-08, issued the following statement today after the U.S. House of Representatives voted Monday evening to adopt a six-month extension of the Child Safety Pilot Program, which allows youth-serving organizations to obtain criminal history background checks on their volunteers.…
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Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us All
Source: Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
Original Source Interview with Joanna Vearey, Forced Migration Project, Univ. of Witswatersrand JOHANNESBURG, Jul 15 (IPS) - South Africa has become a destination for people from across the continent and beyond. But in spite of migrants having a legal right to free antiretroviral treatment (ART)…
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Health Care Coverage for All, But at What Cost?
Source: NJBIZ
Business trade group opposes plan Original Source By Thomas Gaudio An advocacy group last week launched a nationwide campaign in 53 cities, including Trenton, that is pushing for everyone in the country to have health care coverage through federal legislation. Health Care for America Now-a…
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The new philanthropists: Silicon Valley teens
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Original Source by Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer A group of Kenyan orphans is tasting milk for the first time. On a train platform in India, teachers are giving lessons to children whose families force them to beg from passengers. And in Thailand, health workers…
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The elder-care crunch
Source: The Baltimore Sun
13 Jul 2008 Original Source By Tanika White, Sun reporter After four years of medical school and three years of internal medicine training, Jessica Colburn could have chosen just about any field of medicine to practice. Gastroenterology would have been lucrative, brain surgery exciting. At…
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Money, ads give health care top political billing
Source: The Seattle Times
Original Source By JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press Writer Health care is returning as a campaign issue, with special interest and advocacy groups preparing to spend at least $60 million to push politicians to embrace universal access to medical coverage. The efforts, one by a coalition…
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North's peace deal is now at a critical juncture, warns former ombudsman
Source: The Irish Times
Original Source by DAN KEENAN and AMEL BRAHMI THE NORTHERN Ireland peace is at a critical juncture, the former police ombudsman Dame Nuala O'Loan has warned. "We have peace, but it is still fragile, because there are those who still hold weapons, and seek to…
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Refugees Denied Access to Health Care
Source: Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
Original Source By Kristin Palitza Durban Refugees and migrants do not have adequate access to health care services in South Africa, aid organisations and NGOs say. This is particularly detrimental for those who are HIV-positive and in need of continuous antiretroviral (ARV) medication: interrupted treatment…
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