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Man-Made Disaster After 4 Hurricanes & Wall Street Crisis, NYC Haitians Struggle To Keep Heads Above Water
Over the past two weeks, Wall Street has been coping with a financial catastrophe. Thousands of New Yorkers have lost their jobs and those who haven’t are worried about the economic fallout....
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Nonprofits Bring Vital Medicines to Storm-Ravaged Haiti
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Haitian Times Wires STAMFORD, Conn - Save the Children coordinated delivery Sept. 6 in Haiti of more than 30,000 pounds of medicines and medical and surgical materials — including antibiotics, a...
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Congress clears historic health care bill (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a large gavel as she emerges from a Democratic Caucus meeting with from left, Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., John Lewis, D-Ga., and at right is Rep. Jim Clyburn, on Sunday, March 21, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)AP - Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.


Sun Mar 21 22:54:20 -0500 2010
House passes Democratic changes to health bill (AP)

President Barack Obama, joined by Vice President Joe Biden, makes a statement to the nation Sunday night following the final vote in the House of Representatives for a comprehensive overhaul of the health care system, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 21, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The House has passed key changes to its just-approved overhaul of health care legislation. The changes are part of a prearranged agreement to guarantee passage of the historic legislation.


Sun Mar 21 22:40:56 -0500 2010