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Bill seeks to slow rate of home foreclosures

May. 18, 2009
Lawmakers were urged Monday to pass a measure aimed at ending the downward spiral of home foreclosures in Nevada, which has the highest foreclosure rate in the nation. Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, told the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch