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Ex-EPA chiefs blame Bush in global warming
Jan 18 2006 9:51PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Six former heads of the Environmental Protection Agency _ five Republicans and one Democrat _ accused the Bush administration Wednesday of neglecting global warming and other environmental problems.
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Muslim Americans seek reporter's release
Jan 18 2006 9:25PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An American Muslim advocacy group is traveling to the Middle East to plead for the safe return of a journalist facing death at the hands of her kidnappers.
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Group sues Labor Dept. for workers' names
Jan 18 2006 7:40PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A workers' rights group on Wednesday sued the Labor Department for the release of 95,000 names of private-sector employees it says are entitled to $32 million in back pay.
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Report: USDA only pretended to do probes
Jan 18 2006 7:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Agriculture Department has pretended to investigate anticompetitive behavior among stockyards and meat companies since 1999, but in hundreds of cases hasn't actually filed complaints, says an audit released Wednesday.
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AFL-CIO head blasts corporate policies
Jan 18 2006 7:35PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Corporate policies are driving millions of workers out of good-paying jobs, stripping them of health care and killing pension plans in a strategy that is "just suicidal" for the economy, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said Wednesday.
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Ed. chief: $230M for Gulf Coast colleges
Jan 18 2006 6:25PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Colleges in Louisiana and Mississippi battered by hurricanes will get $230 million in federal aid, U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced Wednesday.
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Rights group says U.S. abuse deliberate
Jan 18 2006 5:37PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration has a deliberate strategy of abusing terror suspects during interrogations, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in its annual report on the treatment of people in more than 70 countries.
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AAA releases report on teen drivers
Jan 18 2006 6:01AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - About one-third of the people killed in automobile crashes involving the nation's youngest drivers were pedestrians or occupants of other vehicles, according to a report released Wednesday.
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