"WASHINGTON, DC -- The Local Radio Freedom Act, introduced in late October by Reps. Gene Green (D-TX) and Mike Conaway (R-TX), is now backed by 148 members of the House of Representatives. "Congress should not impose any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge...
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" Maybe it's just because she is the first female speaker of the house...who knows -- but Nancy Pelosi's wardrobe has been getting a ton of attention of late with most of the discussion revolving around her...
Condemning the United Nations ban on Jamaatud Daawa (JuD), various Pakistani political parties and religious outfits on Wednesday pledged to move the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and Pakistani judiciary against what they called the unjust decision.
A meeting arranged...
Latest round of talks between representatives of Tibetan leaders the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials failed without any progress. The Chinese officials blamed Tibetans for the breakdown. The Dalai...
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WASHINGTON -- Update: The Senate has passed the legislation on a 74-25 vote.With both presidential candidates returning to the Capitol to lend support, the Senate was debating a modified $700-billion Wall...
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The proposed $700 billion bailout has brought immense media attention as well as that of ordinary Americans, and the surest test of that came from the House of Representatives' own website, which was deluged with...
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The $700 billion bailout bill failed to get enough votes, leaving markets in disarray Monday afternoon. 205 have voted Yea and 228 have voted Nay. At least 218 votes are required to pass the bill. The House has...
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" The U.S. Congress and the Bush administration were under intense pressure on Saturday to negotiate a $700 billion rescue for the financial industry to free up frozen credit before world markets reopen next week. "I'm convinced...
" Cricket's governing body has agreed to meet representatives of the unofficial Indian Cricket League (ICL) which triggered a crisis in Bangladesh this month by scooping up 13 of the country's leading players. ...
Some of America's top economists are signing a letter asking the US Government to give the Administration's hastily conconcted bail out plan a sober second thought. Here is the letter with signatories (so...
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"Medical Marijuana Endorsed by Leukemia and Lymphoma Society With a vote on medical marijuana looming in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Leukemia and Lymphoma...
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Rwanda will go down in the history books as the first democratic government in history to be dominated by female representatives. In the second democratic election to be held in that country, women won 44 of...
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"The BCCI has decided to empower its president to have a final say in choosing the panel of selectors. It will no longer be mandatory for the BCCI President to accept the nominees put up by the respective zones at the Annual General Meeting."
"A protest rally of about 100 representatives of Georgian United Trade Union is being held at Igoeti village, where the first checkpoint of Russian occupation armies is located. ‘You cannot make Georgia to bring to its knees with bombing’; ‘There is no place for...
Canadians who have a any notion that we are some sort of bastion of civil rights need to stop kidding themselves. Uncer the current Harper regime, Canadians have seen the erosion of civil risghts and core democratic principles. Well we really have no one to blame but...
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