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A pesar de que el Tribunal de Apelaciones del Primer Circuito rechazó la demanda de los periodistas puertorriqueños de que no hubo violación de la Primera Enmienda de la Constitutición de Estados Unidos que otorga la libertad de prensa, el tribunal si dijo que el FBI usó fuerza exeso de fuerza cuando atacaron a periodistas en febrero del 2006 en Rio Piedra, Puerto Rico. Los reporteros estaban cubriendo el allanamiento de una líder independentista, Lilian Laboy.
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Los cubanos anunciaron una vacuna terapéutica en contra del cáncer de los pulmones la semana pasada. Gisela González, directora del programa que elaboró la vacuna, dijo que era la primera registrada en el mundo contra esa enfermedad particular. El proyecto para la vacuna empezó hace 16 años en el 1992.
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CHICAGO – Tratando de combatir las imagenes negativas en los medios de comuicación sobre los trabajadores indocumentados, los concejales George Cárdenas y Manny Flores, están introduciendo una resolución en el Concejo Municipal de Chicago que condena la retórica de odio presente en el debate nacional sobre la inmigración y para afirmar el apoyo de la ciudad en pos de los derechos de los inmigrantes.
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DALLAS, TX – We are one of the cities where routes converge for the dozens of Americans heading for Laredo, Texas, then to revolutionary Cuba. On June 27, 41 of them came to Munger Place United Methodist Church from Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, and Denver.
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With 8,000 homeowners hit by foreclosure each day, legislation to meet the crisis ought to be high on the Capitol Hill agenda. But fighters for decent, affordable housing say the Bush administration and Republican lawmakers are blocking action.
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CHICAGO — Every day 82 people die due to gun violence throughout the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control. Chicago Public School officials say 27 students have died by gunfire since September 2007. One weekend here left nine people dead in 36 shootings and the week after that five people were found shot to death inside a pillaged South Side home. Chicago Police Department statistics show that from 2004 to November 2007 there were 43,685 firearms-related crimes in Chicago.
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The U.S. Conference of Mayors June 23 adopted a resolution endorsing HR 676, the National Health Insurance Act. The bill, introduced by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), would expand the Medicare system to cover everyone in the United States under a single-payer national health insurance system.
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On June 27, nearly seven years after United States and NATO troops ousted the Taliban government of Afghanistan, the Pentagon issued a comprehensive report to Congress that declared “the Taliban has regrouped and formed a resilient insurgency” and “is likely to maintain or increase its attacks in 2008.”
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After blocking the exits at the stadium in Sucre, Bolivia, May 24, thugs beat and verbally abused dozens of Indians in a crowd waiting to greet Bolivian President Evo Morales, a socialist. The local mayor, the university chancellor, and the municipal council president, opponents of the president, looked on, applauding the attacks.
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A scandal is brewing that connects rightwing Cuban exiles in the United States with violent Mexican drug gangs trained by the U.S. military. The story first broke in the leftwing Mexico City daily, La Jornada. On June 12, 33 undocumented Cuban immigrants and four Central Americans were picked up by Mexican immigration authorities. A gang of armed men held up the bus transporting the immigrants and kidnapped them.
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