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• Chávez’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Include Governors and Mayors

• White House to Award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Three World Leaders

• Efforts to Remove Defiant Illinois Governor Accelerate

• U.S. Treasury Department Sets Out Standards for Financial Rescues

• Several thousand pairs of shoes stop traffic in Miami

• Mexican government extradites 10 major drug defendants to the United States

• Japanese tourist who re-enacted ‘The Terminal’ movie in Mexican airport finally leaves

• Former U.S. Army Employee Pleads Guilty to Acting as an Israeli ‘Spy’

• Venezuela’s Economy expands 4.9% in 2008

• Venezuela likely to see more violence in 2009 as political battles begin - Political Opinion

• As the U.S. Economy Falters Local Currencies Gain Acceptance - Political Opinion

• Venezuela Calls U.S. an Accomplish to Israel’s ‘Criminal’ Attack on Gaza

• Arizona Man Enters Guilty Plea To Sex Tourism Charge

• California Man Enters Guilty Plea in International Child Exploitation Enterprise Case

• Two Canadian Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan

• U.S. Blames Hamas for Slaughter in Gaza

• U.S. Justice Department intends to seize a 40% share in New York City skyscraper

• “Obama: The Musical” playing now in Kenya’s theaters

• Sovereign Wealth Funds Threatening U.S. National Security - Political Opinion

• Venezuela Claims Major Decline in Poverty and Inequality

• President George W. Bush grants pardons to 19 individuals

• War Has No Winners - Poem for Peace

• Fatherhood Educational Institute names Barack Obama as the 2009 Father of the Year

• 39 Arrested as U.S. Police Bust Mexican Drug Gang

• Obama’s Staff cleared by review in Blagojevich Probe

• American Government’s Torture Disgrace - Political Opinion

• Five Men Convicted of Conspiring to Kill Soldiers at Fort Dix

• Member of Afghan Taliban Sentenced to Life in Prison in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

• February 15 Proposed for Venezuelan Constitutional Amendment Vote

• Dick Cheney, Joe Biden Spar as Inauguration Day Draws Near