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Study: Latino voters prefer Obama
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — Juana Marquez very much wanted to cast her first vote in a United States presidential election for Hillary Clinton. Marquez, 19, of Washington immigrated to the United States from El Salvador five years ago. She, as well as her...Tags: Political Candidates, Georgetown, Barack Obama, Illegal Immigrants, US Elections
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Obama Urges Iran to Accept Nuke Proposal
Associated PressPARIS -- Democrat Barack Obama said Friday that Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons, and not wait for the next U.S....Tags: Political Candidates, Health Treatments, Barack Obama, Demographics, Labor Legislation
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Convicted sex offender returns to state treatment facility
DuPage County prosecutors have dropped charges of telephone harassment against a Chicago man after he voluntarily returned to an Illinois Department of Corrections treatment center for sexually violent people. Stephen Mislich, 44, was in a state prison...Tags: Lisle, Mental Illness, Illnesses, DuPage County, Assault
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Lawyer for Oxnard youth accused of killing gay classmate wants trial to begin soon
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA lawyer for the Oxnard middle school student charged with killing gay classmate Lawrence "Larry" King said today that he wants to get the case in front of a jury quickly now that a Ventura County judge has turned down his request to move it to juvenile...Tags: Oxnard, Juvenile Delinquency, Teen-agers, Murder, Gays and Lesbians
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Oxnard Teen to be Tried as Adult in Killing of Gay Classmate
OXNARD -- A Ventura County judge says a 14-year-old charged with killing his gay classmate will be tried as an adult and as a result, may face a life sentence.
In 2000, California voters approved Proposition 21, which gave prosecutors broader authority...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Oxnard, Teen-agers, Lawyers, Witnesses
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John McCain condemns Barack Obama's Iraq policy
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJohn McCain launched a blistering attack today on Barack Obama's foreign policy, contending that the Democrat's opposition to the surge in Iraq would put national security at risk. McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, has backed the...Tags: Defense, Political Candidates, Elections, Veterans Affairs, Barack Obama
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'Don't ask, don't tell:' Congress asks
The SwampBy Amanda Erickson A House subcommittee Wednesday began examining whether gay men and women should be allowed to serve openly in the armed forces for the first time in15 years. Congress had not reconsidered the controversial 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'......Tags: Defense, Elections, Political Candidates, Gays and Lesbians, Barack Obama
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Latinos in Illinois
Source: Pew Hispanic Center1.9 million or so Latinos live in the state, the fifth-largest Latino population in the U.S. and 4 percent of all U.S. Hispanics. 15% of the state's population is Hispanic, about the same proportion as in the overall U.S. population. 708,000 Latinos...Tags: Population, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Messianic Jews have prison issues
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The inmates say they're Jewish, but the prison considers them Protestant. A long-running debate over defining the term "Messianic Jew" has spilled into a dispute over self-described Messianic Jews at an Ohio prison alleging...Tags: Prisons
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Hijabs at issue of discrimination lawsuit
Two Muslim women claim in a lawsuit that a Detroit area McDonald's would not hire them because they wore traditional Islamic headscarves. The Detroit Free Press reports that Toi Whitfield of Detroit and Quiana Pugh of Dearborn filed the discrimination...Tags: McDonald's Corp., Public Employees, Government, Freedom of the Press, Discrimination
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