June 16, 2005
Download MP3 Headlines Sick and injured workers from the site of the World Trade Center are appealing to Congress so that federal money set aside for them will remain in New York rather than...
Monthly Archive: June 2005
June 15, 2005
Download MP3 Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Guantanamo Bay Prisoner Rights (4:10) A military lawyer appointed to represent a Guantanamo Bay detainee testified in Congress today that his client was forced to plead guilty to...
June 14, 2005
Download MP3 Headlines A suicide bomber hit an open market area in the Kurdish city of Karkuk in northern Iraq. Victims of the blast were taken to a neighboring hospital where Dr. Ali Karkuky...
June 13, 2005
Download MP3 Headlines (5:08) The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal by big broadcasters and the Federal Communications Commission on media deregulation. The decision upholds a ruling by a lower court that tossed...
June 10, 2005
Download MP3 Headlines Bhopal activists still seeking retribution from Dow Chemicals are seething over a new deal the corporate leviathan has made with the Indian government. Binu Alex has more from Ahmedebad. The government...
June 09, 2005
Download MP3 Headlines (5:57) Some US Representatives are seeking to slow down the quickly diminishing national pension fund as corporate giants cash in employee accounts to stave off the consequences of bankruptcy. Kate Paulman reports...
June 08, 2005
Download MP3 Headlines (5:08) Today the streets of La Paz were relatively quiet. Miners, laborers and other social groups are marching to Bolivia?s capitol. Luis Gómez reports from La Paz. Military spending worldwide has exceeded 1-trillion...
June 07, 2005
Download MP3 Headlines The U.S. Senate kept its promise on judicial nominee Janice Rogers Brown and closed discussion in a 64-32 vote. Civil rights and environmental groups oppose the presidential nominee saying she has issued...
June 06, 2005
Download MP3 Headlines (5:08) The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a case that could have challenged the anti-discrimination federal Title IX law. The National Wrestling Coaches Association said in order to comply with the law...
June 03, 2005
Download MP3 Headlines (5:18) Bolivia’s President offered a major concession to demonstrators who are calling for the re-nationalization of the country’s resources. Linda Farthing has more from La Paz. Chile’s center-left government signs another so-called...
