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(Video) Obama Signs Actions Taking Aim At Gender Pay Gap

« This is about Republicans seemingly opposing any efforts to even the playing field for working families, » Obama said at a White House signing ceremony, surrounded by women advocates and accompanied by Lilly Ledbetter, a woman whose namesake legislation on pay equity was the first bill Obama signed into law in 2009.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women's wages, President Barack Obama signed directives Tuesday to make it easier for workers of federal contractors to get information about workplace compensation. He seasoned his move with a sharp rebuke of Republicans whom he accused of "gumming up the works" on workplace

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Texas Mulls Adding Mexican-American Studies Course, Controversy Ensues

« I might pull a Cesar Chavez and call for a boycott, » David Bradley, a Republican board member from Beaumont who opposes the proposal, said of Tuesday’s hearing.

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AUSTIN, Texas  — The Texas Board of Education is considering adding a Mexican-American studies course as a statewide high school elective, a move that proponents say would give students a deeper understanding of their state, where Hispanics make up a majority of public school students and which was once part of Mexico. Critics, though, dismiss

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Israel Bars Palestinian Olympian From Leaving Gaza

Nader Masri, who participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, had hoped to run in a marathon in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Friday, but his request to leave Gaza was rejected by Israel’s defense minister.

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel's high court on Tuesday upheld a decision to prevent an Olympic runner from leaving the Gaza Strip to participate in a marathon, highlighting Israel's tight restrictions on travel in and out of the Hamas-ruled territory. Nader Masri, who participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, had hoped to run in a marathon

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EU Court Scraps NSA Style Spying Legislation

« The judgment finds that untargeted monitoring of the entire population is unacceptable, » said T.J. McIntyre, chairman of Digital Rights Ireland, who filed the original lawsuit.

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BRUSSELS — The European Union's top court on Tuesday dealt a blow to law-enforcement agencies' spying on phone and internet records, saying the lives of citizens should not be "the subject of constant surveillance." The European Court of Justice scrapped EU legislation allowing the indiscriminate collection of such communication data in

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Jeb Bush Mulls 2016 Presedential Bid

The former Republican governor of Florida said that’s not by design, and that he’ll make his decision before year’s end.

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WASHINGTON — Jeb Bush says all the speculation about whether he'll run for president in 2016 is actually getting him more attention than if he had already entered the race. The former Republican governor of Florida said that's not by design, and that he'll make his decision before year's end. He told Fox News Channel in an interview airing

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Pro-Russian East Ukraine Pushes For Independence

About half of the region’s residents are ethnic Russians, many of whom believe Ukraine’s acting authorities are Ukrainian nationalists who will oppress Russians.

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KIEV, Ukraine — Pro-Russian separatists who seized a provincial administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Monday proclaimed the region an independent republic in a move echoing the run-up to Russia's annexation of Crimea. The Interfax news agency said the activists demanded that a referendum be held no later than May 11

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India Starts Voting In World’s Largest Election

With 814 million eligible voters, India will vote in stages over the next five weeks in a staggered approach made necessary by the country’s vast size. Voters will choose representatives for the 543-seat lower house of parliament.

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GAUHATI, India — Voters in India's remote northeast cast ballots on the first day of the world's biggest election Monday, with the opposition heading into the polls with strong momentum on promises of a surge in economic growth. With 814 million eligible voters, India will vote in stages over the next five weeks in a staggered approach made

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