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‘Lord, I love you’: Aide recounts Benedict’s last words

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January 1, 2023
Officers Carroll, left, and Moore-Hazelett, right, stand on duty during the Krewe of Carrollton.

2023 Mardi Gras parade routes to stay short

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October 16, 2022
Senate President Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, center, gestures as he talks with Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, left, the governor's chief budget adviser, and House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, right, on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. The three men, all members of the Revenue Estimating Conference, spoke ahead of the conference's meeting. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte) Photo credit: Associated Press

COVID-19 legislative session started Monday in Louisiana

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October 3, 2020
In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Cokie Roberts speaks during the opening ceremony for Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Roberts, a longtime political reporter and analyst at ABC News and NPR has died, ABC announced Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. She was 75. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Photo credit: Associated Press

New Orleans native, political journalist Cokie Roberts dies at 75

Associated Press
September 17, 2019
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2007 file photo, Prince performs during the halftime show at the Super Bowl XLI football game at Dolphin Stadium in Miami. Prince, widely acclaimed as one of the most inventive and influential musicians of his era with hits including "Little Red Corvette," ''Let's Go Crazy" and "When Doves Cry," was found dead at his home on Thursday, April 21, 2016, in suburban Minneapolis, according to his publicist. He was 57. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

[Photo] Thousands gather to honor Prince one last time

Marie Simoneaux, staff writer
April 28, 2016
FILE - In this March 4, 2007, file photo, Willie Mae Seaton cooks fried chicken for volunteers helping to rebuild her Hurricane Katrina-devastated restaurant, Willie Mae's Scotch House, in New Orleans. Seaton, a chef recognized for her classic American food and whose neighborhood restaurant helped put fried chicken on the culinary map, has died at 99. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber, File)

[Photo] Remembering Willie Mae Seaton

Zach Brien
October 8, 2015
A priest offers someone ashes in Indiana on March 5, 2014. The “Ashes on the Go” program began in 2010 as a way to bring the Church to people in their daily lives.

[Photo] Lent gives Loyola community time to reflect and repent

Jessica Molina
February 13, 2015
Rabbi protests ‘terrorism at the Met Opera’

Rabbi protests ‘terrorism at the Met Opera’

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October 24, 2014

Los Angeles Lakers coach resigns

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May 1, 2014
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling (right) sits with V. Stiviano (left) as they watch the Clippers play the Los Angeles Lakers during a preseason game in Los Angeles. NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced Sterling’s ban from the league on April 29.

NBA owner banned from league

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May 1, 2014

Tulane football player charged with simple rape

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April 23, 2014
American wins Boston Marathon

American wins Boston Marathon

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April 23, 2014

Brief: President Obama meets Pope Francis

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April 2, 2014

Mormon women hold international historical meeting

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April 2, 2014

Brief: Bishops bring mass to border

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April 2, 2014

Brief: Creationist law kept in Lousiana

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March 26, 2014

Commission to work with Pope Francis on sex abuse policy

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March 26, 2014

Brief: Methodist same-sex case dismissed

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March 12, 2014
Ashes 'go' to the streets

Ashes ‘go’ to the streets

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March 12, 2014

Brief: Sephardic Jews offered citizenship

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February 20, 2014

Brief: Archdiocese settles abuse lawsuit for $13 million

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February 20, 2014

Hungarian Jews protest memorial

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February 13, 2014
A gay rights activist shows a photo of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, depicted as a devil, as protesters gather next to the European institutions in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Jan. 27. Despite months of protests, Russia’s law against ‘gay propaganda’remains in place, but no major boycott of the Russian-hosted Winter Olympics seems likely.

Olympic travelers’ safety in question

Associated Press
February 6, 2014

Religious clash in African nation leaves 75 dead

Associated Press
February 6, 2014
Mongolian sumo grand champion Hakuho throws bags filled with beans during Setsuban-Sai, the annual bean-throwing festival, at Naritasan Shinsho Temple in Narita, Japan, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. The bean-throwing traditionally drives away demons and grants good luck in Japan.

Spirit around the world

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February 6, 2014

Brief: Gandhi memorial unveiled on death anniversary

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February 6, 2014
The Opening Ceremonies for the XXII Winter Olympics will take place on Feb. 7 in Sochi, Russia. The United States will be one of 88 countries competing in 15 events over two and a half weeks. It will be the first Olympics in the Russian Federation since the breakup of the USSR in 1991.

Putin faces challenges and risks in Sochi

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February 6, 2014

Sochi Olympic committee beefs up drug-testing programs

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January 31, 2014

Bobby Jindal proposes increase in Louisiana’s education budget

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January 31, 2014
Drew Brees stretches while anticipating the upcoming game against Seattle on Jan. 11, 2014, after an unfortunate loss in regular season week 13.

Saints’ season ends in disappointment

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January 16, 2014
New Orleanians woke up to temperatures in the 20s on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014. On South Claiborne Avenue, carwash owner John LaGuardia arrived at work to find his business covered in four foot long icicles.

Freezing weather throughout the U.S. has led scientists to research why it’s so cold

Associated Press
January 16, 2014

Lawmakers urged to limit TOPS

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January 16, 2014

Brief: Oklahoma same-sex marriage ban deemed unconstitutional

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January 16, 2014
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Santa Claus is going to jail

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December 5, 2013

Brief: Gulf oil spill indictment trial heats up

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December 5, 2013

Brief: Angola prison puts on a play about Jesus

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November 21, 2013

Brief: Pastor is convicted after officiating gay marriage

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November 21, 2013

Brief: The Vatican holds a silent prayer for the Philippines

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November 14, 2013
President Barack Obama spoke about the economy at the Port of New Orleans this past Friday. Obama traveled to the Gulf Coast region to make a case that more exports lead to more jobs.

Obama takes on The Big Easy

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November 14, 2013
A resident looks at houses damaged by Typhoon Haiyan, in City of Tacloban Leyte province, central Philippines. Haiyan, one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, slammed into central Philippine provinces Friday, leaving a wide swath of destruction.

[Photo] Devastating Typhoon Haiyan hits Philippines

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November 14, 2013

Brief: Athiest churches gaining popularity

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November 14, 2013

Brief: Pope removes over-indulgent archbishop

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October 31, 2013

Brief: Former New Orleans mayor’s trial postponed until Janurary

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October 30, 2013

Brief: NOPD gets better marks from residents

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October 30, 2013

Two new saints announced

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October 2, 2013

Brief: Congress vote on potential strikes in Syria

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September 4, 2013
New Orleans Hornets forward Anthony Davis drives against Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol during a game in Los Angeles Tuesday, Aril 9. The team has played their last season as the Hornets, as they have now made the official switch to the New Orleans Pelicans.

[Photo] Good-bye Hornets, Hello Pelicans

The Maroon
April 18, 2013

New York works to reduce tobacco users

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March 21, 2013

Brief: Trial to decide consequences for gulf spill

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March 21, 2013

Brief: Lower employments reported

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March 21, 2013

Brief: New career to be offered by UNO

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March 21, 2013

Brief: U.N. bill opposes violence against women

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March 20, 2013

Brief: New Orleans Museum of Art hosts John Paul II art

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March 20, 2013

Brief: National organizations fight voucher program

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March 20, 2013

Brief: Pope Benedict quits papal position due to health issues

Associated Press
February 22, 2013

Brief: Hornets coach fined $25k for comments

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November 8, 2012

Brief: Juveniles detained for urinating on Quran

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October 3, 2012

Brief: Gay pride march shut down

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October 3, 2012

N.O. gets $27.3 million from FEMA

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September 13, 2012

Brief: UNO cuts budget by $12 million

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August 23, 2012

Brief: Kromer steps in during Vitt’s suspension

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August 23, 2012

Brief: Mars rover roves for first time

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August 23, 2012

Brief: New Orleans Hornets extend Coach Monty Williams’ contract

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August 23, 2012

Kansas City priests caught up in sexual abuse battle

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January 19, 2012

Pope John Paul II one step closer to sainthood

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May 5, 2011
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the archbishop of Vienna, presents the book “YouCat.” The Church is currently in the process of correcting translation errors of Church teachings found in the book.

Book misrepresents Church doctrine

Associated Press
April 13, 2011

Rome begins preparation for beatification

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April 6, 2011

Crucifixes in classrooms spark debate

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March 23, 2011

Pope speaks out on violence in Libya

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March 23, 2011
A Shiite Bahraini youth holds a piece of wood in the streets of Malkiya, Bahrain, Wednesday, March 16, 2011, where he and others hauled out debris for barricades and found sticks to use as clubs in preparation for government-supporting forces they expect will role into their Shiite Muslim village southwest of the capital of Manama.

AP: Bahrain upheaval tests Obama backing for democracy

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March 16, 2011

Married Germans ordained as priest, nun

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February 24, 2011

Anti-gay marriage law open for debate

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February 24, 2011
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, accompanied by his bodyguards, leaves the inquiry into the Iraq war, after giving evidence for the second time in London Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. Blair returned to testify for a second time before a five-member panel scrutinizing Britain's role in the unpopular war - having been recalled after witnesses raised doubts about sections of his testimony at an initial appearance a year ago.

AP: Iraqi: I’m proud my WMD lies led to war in Iraq

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February 16, 2011

Theologians call for reform of priesthood

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February 10, 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a meeting of the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference, where all US ambassadors from around the world gather simultaneously, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at the State Department in Washington.

AP:Clinton: Critical time for American leadership

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February 2, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI celebrating mass. The Pope’s statements on the use of condoms have ignited controversy in the Catholic world.

[Photo] Pope opens dialogue on condoms

EDUARDO GONZALEZ
December 9, 2010
A group of Togolese United Nations soldiers stands guard on a road leading to electoral commission headquarters, in the Deux Plateau neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. A senior advisor to Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has described the announcement of results by the country's electoral commission showing a victory for the opposition as "an attempted coup."

Ivory Coast opposition leader named winner of vote

Associated Press
December 2, 2010
Swiss Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), briefs the press on the ICRC's Emergency Appeals 2011 "ICRC presents record field budget to address ever more complex needs", at ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. The head of the international Red Cross says the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan worsened this year and is unlikely to improve in 2011.

Red Cross: Afghanistan unlikely to improve in 2011

Associated Press
December 2, 2010
ewly ordained rabbi Alina Treiger holds her document during a ceremony in a synagogue in Berlin Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010. Thirty-one-year-old Alina Treiger is the first female rabbi to be trained in Germany since the Holocaust. She was born in Ukraine and came to Germany in 2002 after studying music in Moscow. After her ordination she will oversee Jewish communities in Lower Saxony in eastern Germany.

Woman rabbi trained in Germany to be ordained

Associated Press
November 3, 2010
FILE - This undated file photo released by the Garden Grove, Calif., Police Department shows Quang Van Quan, 35, who was convicted of murder for stabbing and slashing a couple and their 6-year-old son over an $80,000 debt and leaving the family's baby girl unharmed next to her mother's body for two days. The 39-year-old faces life in state prison without possibility of parole when he is sentenced Dec. 17.

Houston man convicted of killing Calif couple, son

Associated Press
October 13, 2010
LAPD officers investigate the scene where a delivery truck that was used to deliver drugs to a Rite Aid store was recovered, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 in Tarzana, Calif.. Authorities say they have found a pharmaceutical delivery man and his stolen truck after he was kidnapped by suspects impersonating police officers.

LA police: Pharmacy kidnap victim, truck located

Associated Press
October 6, 2010
Brad Bailey, attorney for Karen Tucker, faces reporters outside Federal Court, in Boston, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. Prosecutors say Tucker, of Pittsburgh, defrauded advertisers and exhibitors out of thousands of dollars with a fake Boston bridal show. Tucker pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud and identity theft as part of a plea deal. Bailey is asking for a three-year sentence.

Pa. woman to plead guilty in Boston bridal scam

Associated Press
October 6, 2010
FILE - This Sept. 24, 2010, file photo shows Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett in Milwaukee. Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, that Wisconsin's Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker is skating by on GOP talking points while Democrat Tom Barrett has a "backbone like a ramrod." Biden made the comments at a morning fundraiser for Barrett in Madison, Wis.

Biden: Walker skating by with GOP talking points

Associated Press
October 6, 2010
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, right, speaks to a demonstrator during a protest of police officers and soldiers against a new law that cuts their benefits at a police base in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. Hundreds of police protesting the new law plunged the country into chaos on Thursday, shutting down airports and blocking highways in a nationwide strike.

Protesting police throw Ecuador into chaos

Associated Press
September 29, 2010
Pakistani protesters rally near the U. S. Consulate to condemn the arrest of alleged Al-Qaida suspect Aafia Siddiqui on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 in Karachi, Pakistan. Siddiqui's strange legal odyssey began two summers ago in Afghanistan, where she turned up carrying evidence that _ depending on the argument proved she was either a terrorist or a lunatic.

Pakistani sentenced in NY to 86 years in prison

Associated Press
September 22, 2010
Accompanied by her campaign coordinator Antonio Palocci, left, Workers Party presidential candidate Dilma Roussef, second from left, speaks during a press conference in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Brazil will hold general elections on Oct. 3.

Just more of the same? Brazilian voters love it

Associated Press
September 22, 2010
Italian financial Police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. Just when the Catholic Church didn't need another scandal, Italian authorities have seized euro23 million ($30.18 million) from a Vatican bank account and begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money laundering probe.

Vatican claims transparency amid laundering probe

Associated Press
September 20, 2010
Indian workers remove debris of the collapsed bridge near Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. A footbridge under construction near the Commonwealth Games main stadium collapsed on Tuesday, injuring people. The games are scheduled to be held from Oct. 3-14.

Footbridge collapse injures 23 in Indian capital

Associated Press
September 20, 2010
Swiss Social Democrat lawmaker Simonetta Sommaruga, left, talks to Erika Forster from the Free Democratic Party, during a session of the upper chamber of the Swiss parliament, on Tuesday, in Bern, Switzerland. Swiss women look set to claim a majority of Cabinet seats, less than four decades after winning a long battle for the right to vote in national elections. A recent poll shows strong popular support for Sommaruga to gain one of two vacant places in the seven-member multiparty government.

Swiss women poised to claim Cabinet majority

Associated Press
September 20, 2010
James Willie Jones, right, and his attorney Natalie Jackson talk to reporters at the Spirit of Truth Worship Ministries in Lake Mary, Fla.,Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. James Willie Jones spoke about the events that transpired on a public school bus involving his disabled daughter on Sept. 3, 2010. (Photo/Reinhold Matay)

Dad who stormed bus apologizes for some actions

Associated Press
September 20, 2010
In this Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 photo, James Peterson, left, and Rory Stout with Bio Neighbors, apply a coating of Acrymax to the roof of a row home in Philadelphia. The idea of painting roofs white has become something of a social movement, one that Energy Secretary (and Nobel Prize-winning physicist) Steven Chu believes could be a huge help in stopping global warming.

Homes Cool Roofs

Associated Press
September 14, 2010
Fishermen try to secure their boats as tropical storm Karl arrives in the town of Mahahual, southern Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Karl is expected to quickly weaken into a tropical depression as it slogs across the flat peninsula before heading back out over the Gulf of Mexico, where it could turn into a hurricane by the end of the week and threaten the central Mexican coast.

Mexico Tropical Weather

Associated Press
September 14, 2010
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his residence in Jerusalem, Israel. Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Clinton is in the region for Mideast peace talks. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday said Israeli and Palestinian leaders are "getting down to business" on core issues of renewed peace talks, but gave no sign they are any closer to resolving a looming crisis over Israeli West Bank settlements.

Israel Palestinians Mideast Talks

Associated Press
September 14, 2010
Afghan women walk past by election posters of parliamentary candidates in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Afghans will choose 249 members of the lower house from among more than 2,500 candidates on Sept. 18.

Afghanistan Election

Associated Press
September 14, 2010
A Kashmiri protester, wearing a helmet which was taken from Indian paramilitary forces, and other protesters wait for an opportunity to hurl rocks at government forces during a clash on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. Indian police opened fire Wednesday on Muslim demonstrators in a town near Kashmir, as leaders of India's main political parties debated how to end months of separatist protests in the region.

India Kashmir Violence

Associated Press
September 14, 2010
The Vera Wang spring 2011 collection is modeled Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, during Fashion Week in New York.

Fashion Vera Wang Spring 2011

Associated Press
September 13, 2010
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Or., right, with, front row, from left, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Senate Small Business Committee Chair Sen. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Gene Sperling, counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, acknowledges small business owners from around the country during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, to voice their support for the passing of the small business jobs bill.

Congress Small Business

Associated Press
September 13, 2010
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