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ITALY, April 6, 2011 - More than 250 migrants are feared dead after a boat carrying some 300 people sank in the early hours of the morning, some 40 miles off the island of Lampedusa. Forty seven survivors were rescued at sea by the Italian Coast Guard...

YONEZAWA, Japan, April 6, 2011 - Greenpeace radiation experts investigating impacts from the Fukushima nuclear crisis have discovered high levels of contamination in crops grown on the outskirts of Minamisoma city, raising further concerns over health ...

NEW YORK, NY, April 5, 2011 - Scarlett Johansson, Alan Cumming, Julianne Moore, Rachel Bilson, Gabrielle Union, and more than 40 other leading artists from the entertainment industry are standing up to defend Planned Parenthood from extreme proposals ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2011 - A declaration by the Ecuadorian government that U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges is "persona non grata" and must leave Ecuador as soon as possible should not come as a surprise, Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center f...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2011 — As negotiations on a bill to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year continue this week, a broad coalition of 154 organizations are calling on the White House and Senate Leadership to reject all poli...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2011 - Today Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman criticized the House Republican budget that would make draconian cuts to the Medicaid program. "The Ryan proposal to slash over $770 billion from Medicaid and t...

WASHINGTON, DC, April 6, 2011 — The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service needs rules to protect National Wildlife Refuges from spills and contamination from oil and gas drilling, according to a rulemaking petition filed today by Public Employees for Environm...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2011 - Today, Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, sent a letter to Republican National Committee Chairman, Reince Priebus, questioning a new RNC website that demonizes progress toward LGBT equality. The web...

NEW YORK, NY, April 6, 2011 - Seven of 10 adults think the U.S. health care system needs to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey released today. The concerns reflect widespread experiences with access ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 6, 2011 – Today, U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the Education and the Workforce Committee, introduced The Keeping All Students Safe Act, bipartisan legislation to prevent schoolchildren from being abused...