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• Nevada officials raid office in voter-fraud probe
... Nov. 4," said Secretary of State Ross Miller, referring to star players on the pro football team. State authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to register low-income people.
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The upheaval that has engulfed the financial industry and sent the stock market plummeting is devastating workers' savings, forcing people to hold off on major purchases and consider delaying their retirement, said Peter Orszag, the head of the ...
• Afghan refugees flee Pakistan war zone
We are poor people, and we don't have enough money to pay for the buses," Ghulam Jan told an AP reporter. Authorities were threatening to deport those who resisted and to demolish their houses. Iqbal Khattak, a government official in Khar, said 45 ...
• What I learned at ‘town hall’ campaign events
... advantage that Iowa and New Hampshire voters have over the rest of the electorate is that back in October, November, and December of last year, they really did see these two presidential candidates in very small settings, sometimes 300 or 400 people ...
• China suggests Nobel should not go to activists
BEIJING - China's foreign ministry suggested Tuesday that it hopes Chinese human rights activists will not win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, saying the award should go to the "right people." Dissidents Gao Zhisheng and Hu Jia, both arrested and ...