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Virginia lawmakers return to the Capitol on Wednesday to respond to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has resulted in clogged court dockets and jeopardized some drug and drunken-driving cases. While they are in town, legislators also will get an update...
your credit card company is raising your rates. A wave of change-of-terms letters are flooding mailboxes in advance of new consumer protections that start to kick in Thursday. Credit card rates are up 2 percent this year, even as most interest rates have...
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That is a nearly 20 per cent jump over a similar study conducted two years earlier where 67 per cent of dollar bills were shown to contain cocaine traces, according to researchers who presented the study at the annual National Meeting of the American...
Tags: U.S, Yuegang Zuo, American Chemical Society, americans chemical, bank notes, Washington DC, paper money
FOXES GUARDING THE HENHOUSE: Yet Another Example of Why Politicians Can’t Be Trusted With Our Money. Less than three months after jockeying for position to stand in front of reporters’ cameras in order to vilify auto executives...
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The Washington Post, on August 9, 2009, covered what began as a simple story. After twenty years, a teacher retired. Instead, it developed into a story about how teachers from special programs, Teach for America and D.C. Teaching Fellows,...
Tags: Washington DC, Failure, School System, teachers, burnout
U.S. officials are holding for undisclosed reasons a Pakistani journalist who works for an American media outlet. Rahman Bunairee, a reporter with Voice of America who has been targeted by Taliban militants, was detained Sunday at Washington Dulles International...
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On August 10, 2009 - Washington, DC area crab cake lovers came to Phillips Restaurant on the DC waterfront for the fourth annual “I Love Crab Cakes!” competition and fundraiser in honor of Karen Cathey. The event was hosted by the...
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Speaking to members of The Indus Entrepreneurs, Washington DC chapter, Shankar predicted that India "is poised at a very significant juncture because we just had election in India and the election results have been a vote for stability and continuity,...
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Attack Poster of President Obama Recalls Racist Minstrel Shows of Slave-owning Times. From an April 25 article in Bedlam Magazine: Copies of a poster of Barack Obama in Heath Ledger-style Joker make-up with the legend 'Socialism'...
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Bordallo met yesterday with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during a reception hosted by the U.S.-Philippines Friendship Caucus and the Embassy of the Philippines in Washington, D.C. Arroyo is in Washington for a meeting with President Obama....
Tags: Barack Obama, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Arroyo-Clinton, D.C. Arroyo, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Philippines, Washington DC, president gloria, United States, president arroyo