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One-year extension would keep Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama revitalized his push for holding down middle class tax rates Monday, calling on Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year.


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Nina Rhodes-Hughes insists Sirhan was not the only gunman firing shots

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A woman who witnessed the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy says she has agreed to testify for Sirhan Sirhan's new defense team.


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A reporter from El Salvador finds himself in a position similar to many of the sources he covers

ATLANTA (CNN) -- A reporter from El Salvador who has been reporting for years about immigration issues in Atlanta, Georgia, finds himself in a position similar to that of many of the sources he covers.


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By a number of objective measures, America is not No. 1

(CNN) -- Forget Social Security. The third rail of American politics is acknowledging we may not be the greatest country in the world.

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Justice referenced anti-free-black laws of slave states in dissenting immigration opinion

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Antonin Scalia drew unusually critical attention during this past Supreme Court term for comments he made in court and in his writing that seemed to some more political than judicial.

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Infections among heterosexual black women have nearly doubled since 2008

Two years ago, the District of Columbia struggled to get a grip on its burgeoning HIV/AIDS cases which had reached pandemic proportions among the heterosexual population, giving the city notoriety as the leading AIDS infected jurisdiction in the nation.


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Oftentimes Asian American students make up the largest minority group on campus

When Twitter accounts "Purdue Asians" and "Kim Jong Il" (with the handles @OrientalSwag and @Purdue_Asian, respectively) started tweeting things like "I sreep for entire crass & stir get better grades than you! :D" Asian American students at Purdue found another reason to sign a petition being circulated for the establishment of an Asian/Asian American cultural center on campus.


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Across the country, a disproportionate number of power plants operate near or on tribal lands

MOAPA, Nev. (AP) -- Beyond the ancestral hunting fields and the rows of small, sparse homes, the cemetery at the Moapa River Indian Reservation sprawls across a barren hill with the tombstones of tribal members who died young.


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Male hip hop performers are known for hardcore heterosexuality and bravado

(CNN) -- "Today is a big day for hip hop." When music impresario Russell Simmons penned those words and posted them Wednesday, he was not referring to a new album dropping or the debut of an exciting artist. He was talking about a male artist's admission that his first love was a man.


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Campus police chief had suggested suspension of band for hazing three days before incident

(CNN) -- Three days before Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died in a hazing incident last November, the campus police chief had suggested the suspension of the band because of hazings, a document released by the school shows.


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