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Climate bill placed on hold over Senate dispute
By News on Apr 24, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Long-awaited climate change legislation was put on hold by its authors Saturday when a dispute over immigration politics and Senate priorities threatened to unravel a bipartisan effort that took months of work....
Advocates vow challenges to Ariz. immigration law
By News on Apr 24, 2010
PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's governor vows the state's tough new law targeting illegal immigration will be implemented with no tolerance for racial profiling, but at least two advocacy groups were preparing legal challenges and Mexico has warned that the law could affect cross-border relations....
E-mails show Goldman boasting as meltdown unfolds
By News on Apr 24, 2010
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NEW YORK (AP) -- E-mails released by a Senate committee investigating the financial crisis show top executives at Goldman Sachs Inc. boasting about money the firm was making as the housing market collapsed in 2007....Abbas urges Obama to impose peace deal
By News on Apr 24, 2010
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas urged President Barack Obama on Saturday to impose a Mideast peace deal, signaling the Palestinians' growing frustration after nearly two decades of failed negotiations with Israel....
Obama cites `devastating chapter' in Armenia past
By News on Apr 24, 2010
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- President Barack Obama calls it "one of the worst atrocities" of the 20th century - the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I....
