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Restaurant chain rolls out new breakfast menu WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- SUBWAY® Restaurants are joining Amtrak to celebrate the importance of trains as the premier sponsor of the third annual National Train Day on May 8, 2010. SUBWAY® will brand the Northeast Regional, Hiawatha and Pacific Surfliner trains with vibrant imagery of the restaurant's new breakfast sandwiches and National Train Day. SUBWAY® branded Amtrak trains will run from April 23 to May 21 and cover the northeastern states, Chicago to Milwaukee and Los Angeles to San Diego routes. "National Train Day celebrates the train's impact on our country and...

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has received plenty of attention — and from progressive groups, plenty of praise — for authoring a letter pushing Democratic leaders to save the public option through a parliamentary maneuver known as reconciliation. He mentioned the letter in a missive to supporters citing differences with primary opponent Andrew Romanoff But according to a report this week on the liberal blog TalkingPointsMemo.com (TPM), the idea belonged less to Bennet then to his House colleague, Jared Polis (D-Boulder), who worked out the strategy with a coalition of progressive groups hoping to revive the government-run health insurance option.

An advertisement that ran in today’s print edition of The Daily Mississippian contained a racist message. The ad (pictured at left) was paid for by the New Century Group and promotes American Renaissance, a monthly magazine launched in 1991 that espouses incendiary views about immigration and race relations. The Daily Mississippian advertising staff will include a retraction and apology for the advertisement in Monday’s edition of the paper. Melanie Wadkins, advertising manager for the S. Gale Denley Student Media Center, said American Renaissance will be refunded the $220.50 paid for the three-column, 10 inch ad. Wadkins, who is the staff...

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