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Acorn Office Seeks Return of Documents Taken From Trash

Nov. 24, 2009
An office of the community organization Acorn in San Diego County is trying to recover tens of thousands of documents taken from its garbage by a Republican activist.
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Acorn sues to reverse funding cutoff

NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- ACORN, the community group that has become a target of conservative attacks, filed a lawsuit Thursday in New York to get its federal funding restored.

California AG to probe ACORN tapes

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- California Attorney General Jerry Brown says his office will look into videos purportedly showing members of ACORN offering advice on how to open a brothel.

Recession and scandals plague ACORN

CHICAGO, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The community activist organization ACORN is shutting offices in many cities, including Chicago, in the midst of the recession and scandals, a spokesman said.

House vote bars ACORN from federal funds

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. House, by a wide margin, voted to bar the community organizing group ACORN from receiving any federal funding.

Ex-ACORN employee pleads guilty

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- A former ACORN official has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against former community organizing colleagues in a Nevada voter registration fraud case.

Catholic Church drops ACORN funding

BALTIMORE, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The Roman Catholic Church has halted donations to the community organizing group ACORN due to questionable voter registration drives, a church official says.

Official wants charges filed against ACORN

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Indiana's Republican secretary of state claims he has evidence the community group ACORN has submitted fraudulent voter registrations.
Obama: ACORN 'not advising' campaign

Obama: ACORN 'not advising' campaign

MAUMEE, Ohio, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama says a community activist group under siege by Republicans is "not advising our campaign."

ACORN drawing even more criticism

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A community-based organization's voter drive that has registered some 1.3 million voters is drawing allegations of fraud, observers say.

ACORN raided in Nevada vote fraud probe

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Nevada authorities said Tuesday they raided the Las Vegas offices of the controversial voter-registration activist group, ACORN.
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorated in Washington
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic