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		<title>The Department of Justice Honors LGBT Pride Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Despite all that we’ve achieved in recent years, the road ahead – toward equality, opportunity, and justice for every American, regardless of identity or orientation – still stretches beyond the horizon. Although we can be encouraged by the work that’s underway . . . the fact remains that, across the country, far too many LGBT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney General Eric Holder Meets with Irish Minister for Justice, Equality, and Defense Alan Shatter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/3002</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sratner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Photo Credit: Maxwells Dublin Attorney General Eric Holder and Irish Minister for Justice, Equality and Defense Alan Shatter met today ahead of the U.S.-E.U. Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting tomorrow. After today’s meeting, Attorney General Holder said, &#8220;It was a pleasure to meet with Minister Shatter again, and to be able to congratulate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving a Boost to Kids of Incarcerated Parents</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2950</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sratner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of the Deputy Attorney General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Karol Mason, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs. This week, the beloved children’s television show “Sesame Street” introduced a character named Alex.  Like hundreds of thousands of American children, Alex has a parent behind bars, and like them, he faces considerable challenges to his happiness, welfare, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2948</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sratner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Division]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post is authored by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department&#8217;s Civil Rights Division Jocelyn Samuels. Fifty years ago today, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act—a law aimed at ending what President Kennedy called the “unconscionable practice of paying female employees less wages than male employees for the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring Persistence:  National Missing Children&#8217;s Day, May 25</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2910</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 20:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whornbuckle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lou Leary of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) As we pause to commemorate Missing Children’s Day on May 25, we remember the high profile disappearances of six-year-old Etan Patz on May 25, 1979, of Adam Walsh in 1981, and the murders of 29 children in Atlanta, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative Recognized for Innovation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2906</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2906#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sratner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Mary Lou Leary and Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance Denise O’Donnell. This month, the Ash Center for Democratic Government and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government recognized the White House-led Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative (NRI) as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney General Eric Holder Meets with Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2890</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 22:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whornbuckle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of the Attorney General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met today with Minister of Interior (MVD) of the Russian Federation Vladimir Alexandrovich Kolokoltsev.  During the meeting, Attorney General Holder thanked Minister Kolokoltsev for the assistance by the Russian government relating to the investigation into the terror attack in Boston. They also discussed law enforcement cooperation between the two countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney General Eric Holder meets with Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2880</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>whornbuckle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met today with Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to discuss law enforcement cooperation between the United States and India as well as other matters of mutual concern, such as counterterrorism efforts by both countries. Minister Shinde is in the United States to participate in the U.S.-India Homeland Security Dialogue from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Week to Honor Our Public Safety Heroes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2883</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Office of the Associate Attorney General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During National Police Week, the Justice Department participated in events across the country to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to protect and serve. On Monday evening, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the 25th Annual National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Candlelight Vigil in Washington, D.C.  He said that last year witnessed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Police Week: Remembering and Supporting our Public Safety Officers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2875</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of Justice Programs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Mary Lou Leary, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs. During National Police Week, the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) proudly honors the brave and dedicated officers who enforce our laws and protect our communities. Our streets and homes are safer because of their service &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Intersection Between Animal Cruelty and Public Safety</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2862</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2862#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy  of Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Mary Lou Leary. The images that emerge from animal cruelty cases are both difficult to look at and impossible to turn away from.  We don’t encounter animal cruelty every day, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing Recidivism and Curbing Corrections Costs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2858</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Mary Lou Leary. We are very pleased to announce the results of an important report from the Department of Justice and the Council of State Governments (CSG), highlighting 17 states that have successfully cut corrections costs while reducing recidivism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Message from Attorney General Holder on Yesterday&#8217;s Reentry Council Meeting</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2846</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of Justice Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of the Attorney General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Attorney General Eric Holder. Yesterday, I had the privilege of presiding over the fourth meeting of the Federal Interagency Reentry Council, a government-wide body that has worked – since I convened its first meeting in 2011 – to make communities both safer and stronger by reducing recidivism and addressing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serving Victims of Crime</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2840</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2840#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of Justice Programs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs Mary Lou Leary. This week I was thrilled to join Attorney General Eric Holder, Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West and Rep. Ron Barber of Arizona to honor 13 remarkable people and organizations for their outstanding work to support [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Release of the Updated National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations, 2d</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2838</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2838#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bea Hanson - Acting Director, OVW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dating Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Violence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Office on Violence Against Women]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I was fortunate to join Attorney General Eric Holder, Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West, OVC Principal Deputy Director Joye Frost and OJP Acting Assistant Attorney General MaryLou Leary in honoring 12 extraordinary individuals at the Office for Victims of Crime’s National Crime Victims’ Service Awards Ceremony for demonstrating outstanding service in supporting crime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating 10 Years of Community Service on Earth Day</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2799</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2799#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment and Natural Resources Division]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division Ignacia S. Moreno. For the 10th consecutive year, employees, family, and friends of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) have participated in a community service project in celebration of Earth Day at the Marvin Gaye Park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney General Holder Launches Task Force to Improve Responses to Violence Against Children in Tribal Communities</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2783</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2783#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 19:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defending Childhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of Justice Programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention OJJDP (OJP)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Attorney General Holder outlined the initial steps to implement the recommendations of the department’s Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence, part of the Defending Childhood Initiative. The Attorney General announced that Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West will oversee the creation of an American Indian/Alaska Native Task Force on Children Exposed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Message from the Attorney General on the 50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s Letter from Birmingham Jail</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2778</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2778#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Attorney General Eric Holder. Fifty years ago today, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in the Birmingham City Jail, having been arrested four days earlier for participating in a local civil rights march without a permit.  There in his cell, on scraps of newsprint, he began to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Together to Support Victims of Human Trafficking</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2772</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2772#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights Division]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Division]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. It originally appeared on the Department of Homeland Security blog. This morning, I joined Senior Advisor to President Obama Valerie Jarrett and Attorney General Eric Holder at the White House Forum on Combating Human Trafficking where we announced the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commemorating Equal Pay Day</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2767</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (@CivilRights) participated in an Equal Pay Twitter Chat. Hosted by the National Women’s Law Center, the event brought together officials from across the Administration, members of Congress, advocates and community members to recognize National Equal Pay Day, which marks the point in the year when women’s wages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April Director&#8217;s Message &#8211; Sexual Assault Awareness &amp; Prevention Month</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2765</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bea Hanson - Acting Director, OVW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OVW joins the nation in recognizing April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAM) and stands with survivors everywhere in calling for justice. Sexual assault is far too prevalent in our communities.  According to the latest research from the CDC, over one million women are raped every year, and one in five women have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assessing the National Action Plan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2763</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Office of Information Policy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOIA Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of Information Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Assessment of U.S. National Action Plan on Open Government evaluates progress in implementing the Plan, including improvements made to FOIA administration.]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Women&#8217;s History Month</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2757</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of the Deputy Attorney General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In commemoration of Women’s History Month, the Justice Department held a Women’s History Month Observance Program to recognize the many achievements that women have made to advance the Justice Department’s mission and to improve our of nation’s cultural, economic, academic, and military institutions. As Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole said during the program: “At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indigent Defense Research Opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of the National Institute of Justice. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) — the research, development and evaluation agency of the Justice Department — is bringing together social scientists and defense practitioners to find ways to crack the barriers to strong indigent defense systems. Because of the limited resources and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Gideon&#8217;s Footsteps: The Ongoing Pursuit of Equal Justice for All</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2737</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Fifty years ago, this week, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright - a decisioin that would forever change the criminal justice system of the United States. In June of 1961, Clarence Earl Gideon  was charged with breaking and entering with the intention of petty theft at the Bay Harbor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine Week: In Celebration of Open Government</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2724</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of Melanie Ann Pustay, Director of the Office of Information Policy at the Department of Justice and Lisa Ellman, Chief Counselor for the Open Government Partnership and Senior Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer at the White House. It originally appeared on The White House blog. As President Barack Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s Toys: Ensuring Safety</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2730</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of the Consumer Protection Branch of the Civil Division and is part of the department’s National Consumer Protection Week series. Dangerously high lead content.   Toxic phthalate levels.  Aspiration and ingestion hazards.  These may sound like the perilous byproducts of a front-page environmental catastrophe – but they are actually threats associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Those Who Protect Us</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2687</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post from Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart F. Delery of the Civil Division originally appeared at Stripes.com and is part of the department&#8217;s National Consumer Protection Week series. When servicemembers board the plane to return to the United States from deployment overseas, their family and friends are not the only ones waiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Ways to Keep Food Safe at Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears as part of a series in honor of  National Consumer Protection Week. The Department of Justice Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch is hard at work to enforce food safety laws every day. But there is a lot you can do to keep your family safe at home. Every year, 1 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Our Food Safe</title>
		<link>http://blogs.justice.gov/main/archives/2682</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Department Of Justice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post appears courtesy of the Civil Division&#8217;s Consumer Protection Branch in honor of National Consumer Protection Week. We are all aware of the importance of making healthy choices when it comes to foods, but some foods may be bad for your health in unexpected ways.  In the last year, Americans have suffered through [...]]]></description>
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