But still, the police did not believe the victim. Worse, they didn't just laugh at her, as many other victims report happening to them.
The U.S. State Department re-signed the security firm formerly known as Blackwater despite Iraq saying it didn't want the company there, records show.
The monthly schedule is church-like, with its parenting classes, guest speakers and small group meetings to hash out shared beliefs. But God isn't part of this Cambridge congregation.
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Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says he's ready for a tough re-election race in 2010, whether it's against MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews or someone else.
A lawmaker says the state's Homeland Security office should be crediting God with keeping the state safe.
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How to counter 10 of the most common myths conservatives believe about progressives. 1. Liberals hate America. 2. Liberals want to leave us defenseless in the face of evildoers around the world. 3. Liberals hate the free market. 4. Liberals hate our troops.
I'm still relatively new to Newsvine, and I have to say, I've already had a number of great discussions. I've certainly never minded having a discussion with someone who disagrees with my point of view, and I like to think I keep an open mind.
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"In her appeal of Chicot County Circuit Judge Robert Vittitow's decision, the mother noted Vittitow described Wicca in his opinion letter as 'a religion, movement, cult or whatever it that may be.' The judge also wrote that while the mother testified she was only joking when she …
It's hard to get too worked up on Palin's behalf, of course; she was complicit in her crucifixion. But it is disappointing to watch what some have called the "year of the woman" come to such an embarrassing conclusion.
"I personally understand that for many Prop. 8 supporters, their beliefs are the most important thing in the world to them, that the idea of living without those beliefs would be too much to bear. Well, that's how we feel about our equal rights.
Soon after the polls opened on Election Day, my 5-year old niece Danah, the first American in our family, voted for Barack Obama in her kindergarten's mock Elections.
Marvel Animation is developing and self-producing a 26 half-hour episode series based on its long-running comic book, with the series targeted to launch in fall 2010, following Marvel's live-action feature "Thor," which bows in 2010.
In seven of the nine states that switched this year from Republican to Democratic, Obama's vote total exceeded the total won by President Bush four years ago.
Call it breaking the brass ceiling. Ann E. Dunwoody, after 33 years in the Army, ascended Friday to a peak never before reached by a woman in the U.S. military: four-star general. At an emotional promotion ceremony, Dunwoody looked back on her years in uniform and said it was a credit to the Army — and a great surprise to her — that she would make history in a male-dominated military.
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I ran across this the other day. I believe everyone should read it and ponder its message. It's time the rwr and right wing Christians start being Christians. The Homosexual Agenda??
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The Most Significant Surge in America is now Obama's mandate: Hope
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"Arrested Development" fans, rejoice. Your fave TV show is becoming a movie.
For all the talk about Democratic Party unity this summer, I've long thought the far more worrisome schism was the one that opened up between feminists groups and sites headed by white women and ones that focused on women of color.
The western Kentucky compound that the nation's second-largest Ku Klux Klan outfit calls home features a high gate with armed guards, a stage for the group's annual gatherings and an open field for burning crosses. The Southern Poverty Law Center wants to take it all away.
Congressional Democrats are eyeing a little-known, Clinton-era law as a way to reverse Bush administration midnight regulations — even ones that have already taken effect.
SEATTLE - The U.S. military, with help from Seattle startup Delve Networks, has launched a video-sharing Web site for troops, their families and supporters, a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites.
The brains of bullies—kids who start fights, tell lies, and break stuff with glee—may be wired to feel pleasure when watching others suffer pain, according to a new brain scanning study.
Arkansas voters passed by a 57% majority, a vile proposition making adoption by homosexual couples illegal. As a result, 400 children are required to be moved out of homes they were already placed in and into group homes or orphanages, immediately.
Captain America has a new boss.
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President-elect Obama's advisers are crafting plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and prosecute terrorism suspects in the U.S., a plan that the Bush administration said Monday was easier said than done. Under the plan being crafted inside Obama's camp, some detainees would be released and others would be charged in U.S. courts, where they would receive constitutional rights and open trials.
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