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Today's lead stories:
CIA Holds Up Intelligence Report
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of HMOs
HUD Cuts Section 8 Housing Assistance
Nationwide Demonstrations for Universal Healthcare
South Africans Remember Soweto
Child Soldiers in the DRC
FSRN Headlines
A U.S. military judge said that if George W. Bush demolishes
the Abu Ghraib prison as he has stated publicly, the President
will be destroying a crime scene. Colonel James Pohl made
the statement at a pretrial hearing of U.S. soldiers charged
with abusing Iraqi prisoners. And, more evidence implicates
British soldiers with abusing Iraqis. Naomi Fowler reports
from London.
Connecticut Governor John Rowland is scheduled to resign
at 6PM eastern time, under the shadow of impeachment hearings.
Melinda Tuhus explains from New Haven.
Ralph Nader announced his running mate today. Amrutha Nanjappa
has more from D.C.
South Asia’s nuclear neighbors met over the weekend
and agreed to set up a hotline between the two so they could
inform each other ahead of additional weapons testing. Binu
Alex reports from Ahmedabad.
Today the United Nations held its first ever conference on
the subject of anti-Semitism. At the UN, Haider Rizvi reports.
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CIA Holds Up Intelligence Report (3:52)
The New York Times reports that the Bush administration
exaggerated the threat and intelligence value of detainees
held at Guantanamo Bay. The Times reports that only between
a dozen and two dozen of the 600 detainees are Al-Qaeda members
or have information concerning the organization. Meanwhile,
the Senate Intelligence Committee has delayed the release
of its investigative report into the errors of pre invasion
intelligence on Iraq. The committee is at odds with the CIA
as the agency is reportedly trying to classify about a half
of the report. Mitch Jeserich reports.
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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of HMOs (1:49)
Today the US Supreme Court ruled that patients who want
to recover damages for undertreatment by HMOs have to resort
to federal court, not state court, even if there is a patient
protection law on the books in their state. Pokey Anderson
reports from KPFT in Houston.
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HUD Cuts Section 8 Housing Assistance (3:08)
The Department of Housing and Urban Development came under
fire today for recent decisions to cut spending and roll back
its subsidized housing program known as Section 8. Housing
activists say the latest cuts will end rent support for 600
thousand families over the next five years. Darby Hickey reports
from D.C.
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Nationwide Demonstrations for Universal Healthcare
(3:51)
Over the weekend thousands of people, including union leaders
and labor activists, marched in 150 cities nationwide demanding
“health care for all.” In one such demonstration
in San Francisco about 12 thousand activists marched across
the Golden Gate Bridge. Miae Kim reports from San Francisco.
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South Africans Remember Soweto (4:04)
Last week, South Africans celebrated Youth Day, a national
holiday that commemorates the uprising of Soweto students
in 1976 in protest against the education system. The student
uprising sparked a resistance movement that helped bring down
the apartheid regime. Now, 10 years into the new democracy,
South Africans are still struggling to overcome racism and
inequality, as they face a new enemy that is decimating their
young people: HIV/AIDS. Reed Lindsay reports from the South
Coast of Kwazulu-Natal province in South Africa.
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Child Soldiers in the DRC (3:43)
Congolese officials today confirm the DRC is sending 5,000
troops to the provinces bordering Rwanda and say the deployment
is intended to quiet internal conflict. Rwandan officials,
however, say the build-up of Congolese troops near its border
is a hostile act. It's estimated that 3.5 million people have
died since 1998 as a result of the conflict in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Concern is mounting that full-blown
hostilities might return to the east of the country. And,
as Rupert Cook reports, it's children who often make up more
than half of some of the country's armed groups and militias.
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