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Labor icon Dolores Huerta dies at 96
Dolores Huerta, the labor organizer and civil rights activist who co-founded the union that became the United Farm Workers with César Chávez, died Wednesday, October 28, at her home. She was 96. She coined the rallying cry "Sí, se puede" and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012.
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- Congo's Ebola outbreak passes 10,000 cases
- Pentagon puts Iran war cost at $47.1 billion
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