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Expansive speech comes as states impose requirements that could reduce minority voting

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year's elections amid a flurry of activity by states to redraw political boundaries and impose requirements that could reduce voting by minorities who enthusiastically supported Barack Obama in the 2008 election.


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Human rights group International Justice Mission will lead tech giant's anti-exploitation efforts

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Tech giant Google announced Wednesday it is donating $11.5 million to several coalitions fighting to end the modern-day slavery of some 27 million people around the world.


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Occupiers target Goldman Sachs holdings; Oakland mayor says they're just hurting wage earners

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Heady with their successful attempts to block trucks and curb business at busy ports up and down the West Coast, some Occupy Wall Street protesters plan to continue their blockades and keep staging similar protests despite requests to stop because they're hurting wage earners.


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In phone call to supporters, former Black Panther says he was disappointed he didn't get new sentencing

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal said Monday that he was surprised and somewhat disappointed that he did not get a new sentencing hearing in the racially charged murder case that had kept him on death row for nearly 30 years.

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Case centers around alleged beating that happened three weeks before Robert Champion death

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Two Florida A&M University students appeared in court Tuesday and said they plan to fight charges that they beat a fellow member of the famed Marching 100 band so hard during a hazing ritual that she was left with a broken thigh.


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One of three politically charged issues on the justices' docket in 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on Arizona's controversial law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for an election-year decision on an issue that is already shaping presidential politics.


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Three-day conference brings together reps from more than 24 countries

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. is reaching out to Muslim countries angry about Western characterizations of Islam by bringing together representatives from more than two dozen governments this week to address religious intolerance.


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City passed proposition in 2003 that requires increase for lowest earners each year

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- David Frias works two minimum-wage jobs to squeak by in one of the most expensive cities in America.


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In mid-November, she asked the state to review her food stamp application again. It was rejected once more

Grimmer didn't have a job, and the state had denied the family food stamps and emergency help despite repeated requests. Tragic shootings sometimes come without warning, but interviews with family members and neighbors show there were many signs of frustration before Grimmer entered a state welfare building with a .38-caliber handgun earlier this week and shot herself and her children after a seven-hour standoff.


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One school holds that Gingrich articulates conservative positions so forcefully that he attracts hard-right voters willing to overlook his record of inconsistencies and foibles

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newt Gingrich's rapid rise in presidential polls has left veteran Republicans scratching their heads, and not just because he vaulted from far back to lead Mitt Romney in several key states.


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