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The ACLU Threatens To Sue A Louisiana School For Forcing Girls To Take...

The American Civil Liberties Union is calling out a Louisiana charter school for forcing female students to take pregnancy tests and kicking them out if they turn up pregnant. The American Civil...

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Federal Officials Monitored Sikh Temple Shooter Before The Shooting But...

The man who opened fire on a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple and killed six before being shot to death by police had been on federal investigators' radar before the shooting but federal law prohibited the...

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Alleged Chinese-Mexican Meth Lord Is Causing A Headache For Sheldon Adelson

Las Vegas Sands Corp, the casino giant owned by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, is in a spot of hot water this week. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is being investigated by the US...

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Sikh Temple Shooter's Stepmom Calls Son A 'Precious Little Boy'

She hasn't spoken to her son in years but Wade Michael Page's stepmother claims he was a good boy. "He was such a precious little boy, that's all I can say, he was very fun-loving, typical little boy,"...

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Pfizer Admits To Bribing Foreign Officials And Agrees To Fork Over $60 Million

A Pfizer Inc. subsidiary admitted to bribing officials in Bulgaria, Croatia, Kazakhstan, and Russia in an effort to persuade those countries to approve the drug giant's products, the U.S. Department of...

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Law Schools Are Now Officially Banned From Misleading Would-Be Students About...

Law schools will now have to pay extra attention to the job statistics they publish if they want to avoid penalties. The American Bar Association is now requiring law schools to publish only "complete,...

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How Israel Received Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material From a US Company

On July 19, 1969, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger wrote the following about Israel's nuclear weapons program: "There is circumstantial evidence that some fissionable material available...

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The Names And Faces Of Those Killed In Sunday's Attack On A Sikh Temple

Six people lost their lives when gunman Wade Michael Page opened fire on a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple. The families and friends have just released the victims' photos. Among the victims were five men...

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Jared Lee Loughner Pleads Guilty To Murder

Jared Lee Loughner pleaded guilty Tuesday to critically wounding ex-Congress member Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others in Arizona in 2011. Several news outlets live tweeted from the courtroom,...

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Anti-Hate Group: Nothing In Sikh Temple Shooter's Behavior Predicted His Rampage

The Anti-Defamation League had been monitoring Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page since 2010, but never saw his violent shooting spree coming. "He was actually someone who was pretty much quiet on...

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Mom Sues Production Company After A Video Of Her Breastfeeding Showed Up In Porn

WOOD RIDGE, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey mother is suing an Iowa production company after an instructional breast-feeding video she appeared in was taken by a third party and used to create pornography. A...

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Wade Michael Page Had To Pass A Range Of Tough Tests To Join The Army's Elite...

Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page had "no business" being in the Army's psychological operations, a psychiatrist told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Page, a white supremacist who killed six Sikhs...

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Appeals Court: Ex-Inmate Doesn't Have To Prove 'Chattel Slavery-Like...

A man who claims he was forced to work in the prison's laundry room for next-to-no pay will get a chance to argue his case in court after an appeals court ruled he can sue under the anti-slavery...

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Florida Woman Claims Cops Pulled Out Her Tampon During Strip Search

A woman claiming she was pulled over for a traffic violation is suing sheriff's deputies for allegedly pointing a gun in her face, forcing her to strip on the side of the road, and removing her tampon...

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WATCH: The World's Tiniest Gun, Which Has A Tiny Chance Of Killing You

The company that makes the 2.16-inch Swiss MiniGun promotes the gun as being the smallest in the world while still having all the features of a real-size gun. Weapons and ballistic expert Steven Howard...

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Australian Prostitute Wins Discrimination Case After A Motel Banned Her

An Australian prostitute is reportedly seeking $32,000 in damages from a motel after the establishment refused to rent her a room. A sex worker in Queensland, Australia stayed at the motel with clients...

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High Ranking Cartel Member Says Operation Fast And Furious Was Meant To...

A high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel operative currently in U.S. custody alleges that Operation Fast and Furious was part of an agreement to finance and arm the Sinaloa cartel in exchange...

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Aurora Victims Fear James Holmes' Trial Could Focus Too Much On Supposed...

Victims of the "Dark Knight Rises" shooting and their relatives are getting upset after James Holmes' defense lawyers claimed he was mentally ill, the Associated Press reported Friday. "They keep...

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Massachusetts Judges Are Now Exempt From Testifying In Their Own Ethics Hearings

Weighing in on a dispute that has rocked and roiled the Bay State's legal community, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously Thursday that state judges in the Commonwealth have a...

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The Biggest Court Case In Recent Chinese History Might Just Be A Test Balloon

Reuters has a telling quote in a story on the four police officers on trial for their alleged involvement in the Bo Xilai scandal surrounding the murder of British national Neil Heywood. The quote is...

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