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Eleno Oviedo, imprisoned in Cuba for 26 years, stood outside a Sedano's in Hialeah on a recent Saturday, eager to collect donations for a fresh cause: Honduras.

In an October 1974 cable to Democratic Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, following passage of his legislation helping Soviet Jews emigrate, Israel's Foreign Minister Yigal Allon wrote that "your efforts in this matter manifest once again your deep understanding of our needs and your constant support of the cause of Israel." What a difference 35 years ...

Washington: The US-India Political Action Committee has welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his State Visit to the US.

Published: Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 12:12 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 3:07 a.m. WASHINGTON At a tempestuous hearing, one House member after another criticized a growing campaign to lift the ban on American tourists traveling to Cuba.

SUPPORTERS of Taiwan in the US Congress on Friday pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward selling arms to the island, a step that would almost certainly anger China.

Rep. Howard Berman, D-California, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, talk before the hearing Thursday.

A metaphorical timeout has been in place between the United States and Cuba for nearly 50 years.

Havana, Nov 17 About $11 million have been paid to US lawmakers, including republicans and democrats, to support the aggressive policy against Cuba in their country''s Congress, Granma newspaper reported Tuesday.

Republican Rep. Sam Graves, a farmer from a rural northwest Missouri congressional district, was once a consistent supporter of easing trade and travel restrictions on Cuba.

The Human Rights Campaign has announced a national call to action on ENDA . The call came after the Human Rights Campaign confirmed the Committee on Education and Labor will vote on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 , at 10:00 a.m. on legislation to end the widespread practice of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

WASHINGTON // The significance of the congressional debate of the Goldstone report on the Gaza conflict last week may have been ignored by many given what appeared to be the lopsided vote in favour of the anti-Goldstone resolution.

TPM Reader MT points out that the only Republican to vote for the Dems' health care reform bill is also one of, I believe, only two in the House GOP caucus with any actual experience living in a Communist country, as opposed to the fantasy-Tea Bag version of Communism / Socialism / Fascism / Dictatorshipism.

On November 4, the House of Representatives voted 344-36 in favor of a resolution condemning the Goldstone Report, which chronicled the war crimes committed during last year's Gaza war.

The measure passed in the House 220-215. Sunday, November 8, 2009 The House has acted.

The US House of Representatives on Saturday threw its support behind two Chinese activists put on trial after investigating whether shoddy construction led to children's deaths in last year's Sichuan earthquake.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat met with Democratic and Republican Congress members in Washington on Friday, and was pleased to find wall-to-wall support of the need to keep Jerusalem united.

The Goldstone commission reported that Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes in Gaza during fighting that erupted in December.

Amid strong Israeli opposition, the UN General Assembly prepared yesterday to ask Israel and the Palestinians to launch credible, independent probes of alleged war crimes committed during the Gaza War nearly a year ago.

29, deals with the fighting last winter that left more than 1,000 people dead, all but a handful Palestinians.

A cloud of smoke billows from the Gaza Strip following an Israeli strikes as seen from the Israel-Gaza border, 15 Jan 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning a report by a United Nations fact-finding panel that criticized Israel as part of an assessment of the conflict in Gaza in 2008 between Israel ...