The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.
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They now have until Thursday to prevent Slovenia from being the next EU nation to require a bailout.
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Russia seems to think it is about to be attacked from the outside. And they may just be right about that.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, several members of the Senate group are in favor of introducing a “biometric” ID card, which would use fingerprints, a scan of veins in the top of a person’s hand, or another unique biological trait, and could possibly become mandatory for all American workers.
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Some of the new names for the states are great. Who would not want to live in Atchafalaya?
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Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Thursday that their Senate framework for immigration reform, recently endorsed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), could require biometric information to check employment status.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the world economy was pulled back from the brink of collapse in 2012, but rigorous fiscal reform will be needed in the coming year to safeguard the recovery
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New investigation puts deaths at nearly 100 since 1900. The school is closed now and most of the teachers and staff involved in the abuses and rapes are dead now.
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Iraq’s food stamp policies, a inheritance from the UN sanctions against Saddam Hussein, are inefficient and too expensive according to the IMF, so it has to go. This doesn’t go over well with the poor.
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Staffing agency Randstad remains concerned about developments in Europe, chief executive Ben Noteboom said in a briefing to accompany the group’s third quarter figures.
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