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An advocacy group says thousands of New York City children have languished in foster care for years. The group, called Children's Rights, says the problems include Family Court delays; inadequate casework; and a lack of urgency throughout the child welfare system. Commissioner John B. Mattingly says the Administration for Children's Services is working to shorten foster care stays.
JERUSALEM, 10 November 2009 (IRIN) - Aid groups and several members of parliament (MPs) are outraged by what seems to be the toughening of Israeli policy towards asylum-seekers illegally entering the country.
Lev L. Dassin, a former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan whose office won the conviction of Bernard L. Madoff for his huge Ponzi scheme, resulting in a 150-year sentence, is joining the New York office of the international law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton , Benjamin Weiser writes in The New York Times.
Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end.
By Robert Malley The idea of Israeli-Palestinian partition, of a two-state solution, has a singular pedigree. It has been proposed for at least eight decades. Jews first accepted it as Palestinians recoiled; by the time Palestinians warmed to the notion in the late 1980s, Israelis had turned their backs. Still, its proponents manage to portray it as fresh, new, and capable of leading to peace ...
According to an op-ed in USA Today, the Obama administration recently "supported the effort of largely Muslim nations in the U.N. Human Rights Council to recognize exceptions to free speech for any 'negative racial and religious stereotyping.'" Aside from a few such mentions in a couple press outlets, there are virtually no other references to this extraordinary political move in the mainstream ...
The House passed an "historic" health care bill Saturday night - there was much celebration on the Democratic side and the proverbial wailing and gnashing...
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Batesville, Miss.-based Dunlap & Kyle Co. Inc., which owns and operates Gateway Tire and Service Centers, has internally transferred six acres of ....
Wright Medical Group Inc. reported Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the company the go-ahead to begin marketing the Conserv....
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for....
RedRover Co. has added Lynda Hobbs to its sales and marketing team as a marketing specialist.With a career that has spanned categories including direc....
Opera Memphis’ Department of Education and Outreach will present “Offering: An Evening of Song” Nov. 20 as part of Opera America’s first celebration o....
Republican legislators are at odds over whether to criticize the state’s largest anti-abortion organization for supporting a Democrat.State House Repu....
The international law enforcement agency Interpol is cracking down on the sale of stolen luxury cars in Central Africa.
NASHVILLE — Republican legislators are at odds over whether to criticize the state’s largest anti-abortion organization for supporting a Democrat.
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