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“American Woman” is a song released by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who in November 1969, from their sixth studio album of the same name. It was later released in March 1970 as a single backed with “No Sugar Tonight”, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
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In 2007, Nancy Pelosi was the first woman elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives.6 In 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major party for the Presidency of the United States.7
The Immigration Justice Campaign. A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
The Clinton-aligned think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) struggled to deal with sexual harassment in its ranks, according to current and former staffers, with two employees alleging they were retaliated against for reporting their harasser.
American politics are conducted within the framework of a presidential republic in which the President of the United States is the head of state and of …
Overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law (sharia) to be the official law of the land, according to a worldwide survey by the Pew Research Center.