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Jim Harmes, president of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, told the World he has been a firefighter for over 35 years, and “I don’t remember when there have been so many multiple-death house fires as we’ve had so far this year.”

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Shock and anger swept through Massachusetts after agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided Michael Bianco, Inc., on March 6, arresting 361 undocumented workers, mostly mothers, and leaving hundreds of children traumatized.

House and Senate Democratic leaders announced new moves to begin U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq this year and set a specific timetable for ending the U.S. combat role by next fall. While not going as far or fast as some peace advocates wanted, it marks the first major congressional drive to end the war since the invasion four years ago.

WASHINGTON — Soldados heridos y la esposa de un soldado hablaron ante una vista pública en la Cámara de Represenantes el 5 de marzo de los problemas que tuvieron para conseguir ayuda en el Centro Médico Walter Reed, mientras que un memorando del congresista Henry Waxman desenmascaró los recortes que un contratista privado hizo en el personal de ese hospital del Ejército.

The health insurance industry is full of surprises, but history and experience show that insurers will never surprise us with a good, affordable health care system for America.

I was intrigued when I heard another Black woman use the phrase that is the headline of this article. It sounded different from sexism. And it could just be all words at this point, but whenever I see the larger-than-life ads for Eddie Murphy’s new movie “Norbit,” the phrase rises to the surface again.

Congress should launch a full investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s role in leaking the name of an undercover CIA officer, Valerie Plame Wilson, to the media in violation of federal law

LAS VEGAS — The main focus of this week’s AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting was moving forward from the March 1 passage of HR 800, the Employee Free Choice Act, in the U.S. House of Representatives, federation President John Sweeney told reporters here.

WASHINGTON — Wounded soldiers and a soldier’s wife told a congressional hearing March 5 of their daily ordeal to get help at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, even as a memo released by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) exposed sharp staff cutbacks by a private contractor at the Army’s flagship medical complex.

WASHINGTON — El teniente del Ejército Brady Van Engelen casi se muere de una bala que un francotirador que entró su cabeza mientras patrullaba afuera de una mezquita sunita en Bagdad en abril del 2004. Pero, él le dijo a Nuestro Mundo, el sistema médico para veteranos como él está “completamente roto”.