Argentine train slams into station, killing 49
A train packed with morning commuters slammed into a downtown station on Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring...
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- SANAA, Yemen – Yemenis flocked to the polls across their battered nation Tuesday to vote in a U.S.-backed, single-candidate election meant to instate a new leader to replace the outgoing autocrat.
- Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is set to be declared president, which will make his predecessor, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the fourth leader to be pushed from power in the Arab Spring uprisings.
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- OMAHA, Neb. – A federal judge Monday rejected a portion of a Nebraska city’s ordinance that would have denied housing permits to illegal immigrants but upheld a requirement that employers verify the citizenship status of people they hire.
- U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp found some of the housing provisions in Fremont’s ordinance, approved by voters in 2010, are discriminatory in violation of federal law.
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