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Download Audio HEADLINES UN Report to Cite Social Effects of Climate Change The United Nations is warning of serious setbacks to the global fight against poverty, disease, and illiteracy if urgent actions are not...

Democrats Claim to Call President’s War-Funding Bluff Southeast Asian Countries Sign New Economic Pact, Despite International Calls for Censure of Burma Jordan’s Election System Questioned as Ineffective Chinese Lawyers Work to Build an Independent...

Kurdish Leaders from Iraq Intensify Efforts to Boost Oil Revenues US Army Recruiters Encounter Resistance in US High Schools IPCC Releases Final Report, Ahead of International Summit on Carbon Emissions Congress Takes a Break,...

Download Audio HEADLINES Washington Rally Demands Prosecution of Hate Crimes Thousands of marchers surrounded the Department of Justice building to demand stronger federal prosecution of hate crimes. Katharine Jarmul reports from Washington. House Passes...

US House Passes War Funding Bill that Includes Troop Drawback Provisions FISA Legislation Moves Closer to Passage Army Asks for More Funding; Senate Asks Why, When Initial Funds Mismanaged German Carmakers’ Emission Standards Under...

Download Audio HEADLINES PUBLIC WORKERS STRIKE IN PARIS French police report 200 miles of traffic jams today, as public transportation workers strike in defense of their retirement benefits. Gas and electricity workers have also...

Download Audio HEADLINES Benazir Bhutto, on House Arrest, Calls for Musharraf to Step Down In Pakistan, General Musharraf appears to have succeeded in preventing Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s “long march” from Lahore to...

Activists Prepare for the Final FCC Media Ownership Hearing Senate Confirms Michael Mukasey as the next Attorney General US House Passes Peru Free Trade Agreement Latin American Countries Unite at Ibero-American Summit Hundreds of...

Iraq War Funding again Comes before Congress Veterans Make up Large Percentage of US Homeless ENDA Excludes Trangender Americans, but Wins Support in House Senate Environment Committee Debates Cap and Trade Pollution Control Benazir...