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Lawmakers Release Documents On Wal-Mart Bribery
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s CEO Mike Duke found out in 2005 that the retailer’s Mexico unit was handing out bribes to local officials, according to emails obtained by lawmakers.
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US Chamber Makes Immigration Overhaul Top Priority
The president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Thursday that the “door to the American dream must always remain open” as he announced a broad coalition of business, labor, faith organizations, law enforcement and ethnic groups intent on overhauling the nation’s immigration system.
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Newark Mayor, Senate Hopeful Booker Wrote In College He Had ‘Hated Gays’
In a 1992 column in his college newspaper, now-Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker wrote that he was “disgusted by gays” before a transformative experience with a gay peer counselor changed his views.
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NRA Vows To Defend Gun Rights After WH Meeting
The nation’s largest gun-rights lobby says its meeting at the White House was more about demonizing the Second Amendment than about keeping students safe.
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Obama Taking Oath Of Office With MLK, Lincoln Bibles
President Barack Obama is putting a symbolic twist on a time-honored tradition, taking the oath of office for his second term with his hand placed not on a single Bible, but two — one owned by Martin Luther King Jr. and one by Abraham Lincoln.
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Buffett: ‘Banks Will Not Get This Country In Trouble’
Billionaire Warren Buffett says American banks are stronger than they’ve been in years, and won’t derail the economy.
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