The highly cricitized Partiot Act, extended for another four years, empowers the government to continue its infringement on the rights of American citizens as it attempts to thwart terrorism.
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CONCORD, N.H. – To some, a never-enforced New Hampshire law requiring parental notification before a minor has an abortion is a backward step for women’s rights. To others, it protects parents’ right to know if their child is having an abortion.
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The execution date for Crips gang co-founder, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, is December 13, 2005. Although convicted in 1979 for killing four people, Williams has since authored a number of anti-gang books and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times. Williams’ fate is now hotly debated from the air waves to the [...]
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Debate continues over the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. This Arizona Central article focuses on Alito’s allegiance to religious interests.
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Washington, Nov. 15 – Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito distanced himself Tuesday from his 1985 comments that there was no constitutional right to abortion, telling a senator in private that he had been “an advocate seeking a job.”
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An ancient church dating back to the third or fourth century has been discovered inside one of Israel’s maximum security prisons, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Saturday.
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Orphaned by the Kashmir earthquake and adopted by sex workers, some children will have a future as a prostitute or street beggar.
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Poll indicates majority think Creator made human beings.
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(CBS) By random mutation — or by design?
Those two different explanations for the diversity of life are in conflict in a court case now under way in Pennsylvania.
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Rest well, Rosa Parks. Thank you for your contribution to the world.
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The US Commission of Fine Arts is concerned about the design and location of the proposed MLK Memorial on the National Mall. Is the design original? Will the new memorial obstruct the view of the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial? More questions like these will likely be raised prior to the [...]
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BALAKOT, Pakistan—Pakistan’s death toll soared to 79,000 yesterday from South Asia’s earthquake after a survey of one of the two hardest-hit Pakistani regions—making it one of the deadliest quakes in modern times.
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The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has begun in most of the Arab world after a new crescent moon was sighted at dusk on Monday.
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NEW YORK - Federal Judge Constance Baker Motley, who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King Jr. and played a pivotal role in the nation’s civil rights struggle, has died. She was 84.
First black woman on federal bench represented Martin Luther King Jr.
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PERRY, La. — For the storm-shattered Gulf Coast, the images were all too familiar: Tiny fishing villages in splinters. Refrigerators and coffins bobbing in floodwaters. Helicopters and rescue boats making house-to-house searches of residents stranded on the rooftops.
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ITHACA, N.Y. – Lenore Durkee, a retired biology professor, was volunteering as a docent at the Museum of the Earth here when she was confronted by a group of seven or eight people, creationists eager to challenge the museum exhibitions on evolution.
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VATICAN CITY (AP)—Struggling to breathe, Pope John Paul II mumbled his final words weakly in Polish: “Let me go to the house of the Father.” Six hours later, the comatose pontiff died, the Vatican says.
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Sept. 11, 2005 — In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqué broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the U.S. and Australia.
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NEW YORK (AP)—America mourned the victims of September 11 on Sunday as the siblings of the deceased read their loved ones’ names and offered messages of remembrance to a weeping crowd at the site where the World Trade Center once stood.
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(CNSNews.com) – A black activist group which spearheaded a search and rescue mission in New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina said the media has not been accurately reporting the conditions in the region
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