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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” the song says. And that seems to be true, for most of you out there celebrating Christmas.
The Associated Press reports from BANDA ACEH, Indonesia:
Jerri Gray was doing all she could to help her son lose weight, her attorney says. But something had gone terribly wrong for the boy to hit the 555-pound mark by age 14.
Shocking New York Times article about Boy Scouts being trained to disarm and kill American citizens stokes fears of Hitler Youth.
RICHMOND | Some legislators want Virginia to join the growing chorus of states that have defied the federal government by refusing to participate in a national identification program billed as a way to fight terrorism and identity theft.
No-Knock Raids—A special report on the militarization of law enforcement and the dramatic rise in the use of paramilitary police units for routine police work.
Even while capitalism continues its inexorable push to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging that redefine politics and open up spaces of unpredictability.
Shocking but true: An American city, in the year 2008, asked a jury to declare that a movie of adults having sex is illegal.
A one-horse town in Nebraska is looking like becoming a no-horse town.
Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.
An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing the girl safely alongside her own new puppies.
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