Unemployment Extension Signed by Bush
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush has signed a spending bill today that includes a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits, a measure expected to be of great help to people in states such as Michigan struggling with high unemployment rates.
Initially, Democrats had argued that states with particularly high unemployment rates, like [...]

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NRA Files Suit to Overturn Handgun Bans
· A day after the Supreme Court issued a landmark gun ruling striking D.C.’s handgun ban, the National Rifle Association filed suit in five jurisdictions to overturn their bans as well. One of the suits is against the City of San Francisco over its ban on handguns in [...]

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Stocks Down Amid Economy and Oil Worries
NEW YORK - Stocks plunged Thursday as Wall Street contended with a barrage of bad news: another surge in oil prices and warnings of trouble in the key financial, automotive and high-tech industries. The major indexes showed losses of about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which [...]

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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Constitution
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time in U.S. history, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that individual Americans have the right to own guns for personal use, and struck down a strict gun control law in the U.S. capital.
The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in nearly [...]

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Supreme Court Gun Ban Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court today did not release its long-awaited ruling on whether the District’s handgun ban violates the Second Amendment. That means the potentially landmark decision will almost certainly come tomorrow morning when the court is planning to issue the last of its rulings for the term.
The case, District of [...]

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No Evidence That Public Surveillance is Making Us Safer
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, local governments across the country set aside concerns over privacy and installed surveillance cameras in public streets and plazas.
Now — even after a damning report by the head of London’s extensive surveillance network and with little evidence that the [...]

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Solar Power and Renewable Energy, It’s All About the Money
Although the renewable energy industry saw over US $100 billion in global market activity, 14 percent of global venture capital investment and accounted for roughly one-third of new U.S. electrical generation capacity last year, the industry is still very far from maturation. But America’s financial leaders [...]

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