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Labor Department Allows Ex-Solyndra Workers to Apply for Federal Aid Published November 22, 2011 | FoxNews.com Hundreds of workers who were laid off by the bankrupt solar firm that received $528 million in taxpayer support are eligible for additional federal aid, the Labor Department has ruled. The potential benefits for laid-off Solyndra workers would fall under a program known as "trade adjustment assistance." The taxpayer-backed benefits are supposed to help workers who lost their jobs presumably because production was shifted overseas. In a Nov. 18 decision, the Labor Department ruled that former Solyndra employees meet the criteria. Echoing an argument...

<p>May 2, 2004 -- Luciana, a 24-year-old Queens newlywed, found herself in a panic as the days ticked down to her January wedding - she desperately needed to get her virginity back.</p> <p>Her fiancé, who like Luciana comes from a strict Latina family, had no idea his bride-to-be had lost her virginity at 16 with a previous boyfriend.</p>

CLEVELAND (AP) — Vice presidential candidate John Edwards on Wednesday sought to assure black supporters that he and John Kerry have "fought for this community our entire lives" — and would continue doing so — on a day devoted to reaching out to the base in the Democratic stronghold of northeast Ohio. Edwards briefly mentioned the "false, negative attacks" by a veterans' group assailing Kerry's Vietnam war service and again blamed President Bush for being behind the group, a claim the Republican's campaign denies. However, Edwards spent much of the nearly hourlong event at a Cleveland community center talking about...