GOP says regulators face war on abuses in business
Washington reports that Republicans and a new business coalition launched Project Relief as the biggest push for regulatory relief. Other items note a $2 billion disaster relief fund proposal funded by a 1 percent property insurance fee and a Justice Department task force examining attacks on abortion providers.
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GOP
Washington
Republican House
House
Tom DeLay
Texas
Gop-Business Alliance
Project Relief
Northridge
California
Justice Department
Private jet crash on Fresno street kills two during training
A private Learjet from Phoenix Air crashed on Olive Avenue near Fresno airport during a military training mission. It plowed into a two story apartment building, igniting a fireball and killing at least two people while injuring 18. Rescue crews fear more deaths as they search the scorched scene and damaged cars.
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Los Angeles Times
Fresno
Calif
California
Bob Waterston
Phoenix Air
Olive Avenue
Mike Brandon
Brandon
Henderson
Dallas Magner
Judge freezes key parts of Proposition 187 in California
A federal judge barred most major provisions of Proposition 187 from taking effect while constitutional challenges proceed. U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer halted sections banning illegal immigrants from public schools welfare and non emergency health care citing potential risks to public health and immunization and treatment concerns.
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Los Angeles Times
LOS Angeles
California
Federal District Court
U.S
Mariana Pfaelzer
Pfaelzer
Initiative
Bombing of Grozny escalates as Russian forces attack
Russian bombardment of Grozny intensified with minute-by-minute shelling. Jets dropped bombs and armor moved within miles of the capital as Moscow pressed Chechnya to surrender. Dudayev rejected negotiations and urged resistance amid looming invasion.
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Grozny
Russia
Chechnya
Moscow
Dudayev
Boris Yeltsin
FTC settles with Hooked on Phonics maker
Gateway Educational Products of Orange County California must stop unsubstantiated claims about its reading program and either abandon certain ads or back them with further research. The agreement signed August 29 bars the parent company from asserting the program teaches reading without sufficient evidence.
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Hooked On Phonics
FTC
Ad Claims
Los Angeles Times
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Orange County
Calif
Gateway Educational Products
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