• Iraq War Supplemental in the Senate
• US Skips Cluster Bombs Treaty Conference
• Immigration Raids' Effects on Children and Families
• Arizona Bill Seeks to Ban Groups Like MEChA
• India Orders Cable Operators to Stop Airing Popular Pakistani Television Channels in Kashmir

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• Iraqi Troops Move into Sadr City
• Lebanese Crisis Talks Continue in Qatar
• Top Female Colombian Rebel Surrenders Under Pressure
• Junta Declares 3 Days of Official Mourning in Burma
• Primaries in Kentucky and Oregon
• Ted Kennedy Diagnosed with Malignant Brain Tumor


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The Senate is expected to take up the Iraq and Afghanistan war funding supplemental, picking up where the House left off. The House passed education benefits for soldiers and a goal for a withdrawal timeline, but was unable to approve any war funding. Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says the supplemental is needed, immediately. Washington Editor Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.

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More than 100 countries kicked off 12 days of talks in Dublin, Ireland yesterday intended to produce a treaty banning cluster bombs. But the United States is not in attendance. Critics of the US and other countries that use cluster munitions gathered in Washington DC this weekend to voice their opposition in a rather unusual fashion. David Rabin reports.

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Federal workplace immigration raids targeting undocumented workers have increased tenfold in the last five years. Last week saw the largest raid in U.S. history, with nearly 400 immigrants, most of them Guatemalan, detained at a meatpacking plant in Iowa. FSRN's Tanya Snyder reports on the effects of these raids on children and families.

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An Arizona legislative committee passed an amendment to a standard Homeland Security bill, which seeks to ban dozens of student groups which focus in part or in whole on race-based issues – including groups like MEChA and the Black Business Students Association. The bill also threatens to cut state funding to any institution where courses challenge or critique a range of tenets, including democracy and capitalism. As FSRNs Andrew Stelzer reports, SB 1108 is the brainchild of Arizona state representative Russell Pierce, who has authored a long list of legislation targeting Latinos over the past few years.

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