Parents’ Rights Activist Murtari Reaches New Heights John Murtari maintains his faith, 109 days after giving up solid food to highlight the need for family law reform. This week that faith paid-off. Yesterday Murtari was interviewed by film producer Angelo Lobo for the documentary “Support? System Down, as well as… (continued)
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An inmate who has been fasting for more than 100 days to protest his sentence for failing to pay child support will be featured in a documentary.
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I can remember back in the late ’80s being told that westerners do not understand the Middle East. Westerners, the theory went could not understand the forces that shaped Middle Eastern culture because those forces have little or no influence on events in the west. Perhaps they were right. It’s been a decade and...
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The Dutch government, facing re-election next week, said Friday it plans to draw up legislation “as soon as possible” banning the head-to-toe garment known as burqas and other clothing that covers the entire face in public places.
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Under a barrage of criticism, Judith Regan says she published O.J. Simpson’s book “If I Did It” because she was a victim of domestic violence and thought the proceeds would go to Simpson’s children.
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The mother of four young children found dead in their home was arrested Thursday for their deaths, police said.
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Singapore is playing matchmaker again. Desperate to boost its fertility rate, the government of the city-state says it will fund new services and activities that encourage dating.
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The Marine Reserves’ Toys for Tots program has decided to accept a donation of 4,000 foot-tall Bible-quoting Jesus dolls. Earlier this week, Toys for Tots declined a Los Angeles company’s offer to donate the Bible-spouting action figures. I can’t think of anything more sacrilegious than a battery-operated Jesus doll. Tots who are presented with...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP  A professor and former dean at the University of San Francisco’s School of Education agreed on Thursday to plead guilty to one count of possessing child pornography following an investigation a federal investigation. Dr. William T. Garner, 66, who also co-founded USF’s Center for Instruction and Technology and is...
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Dems Elect Hoyer as Majority Leader, Not Murtha Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) was elected House majority leader this morning, defeating Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi’s candidate, Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.).Hoyer won the No. 2 leadership job easily — 149 to 86. But the showdown divided the Democrat House caucus only a week after its...
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It was a step forward for open government when the Champaign County Circuit Clerk’s office started making court records available online through their website. However, not all records should be put online, such as the name and address of victims of rape. Sheena Smith of the Orange and Blue Observer originally reported that if...
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University police officers used a Taser on a student repeatedly during an altercation at the UCLA library at 11:30pm November 15th. There was a video made by one of the students who captured only the end of the altercation with the student shouting profanities at the police and then screaming in pain when he...
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Bo Schembechler, the great University of Michigan football coach, has died — the day before is former team is to play Ohio State for the #1 spot in the nation in what some are calling the biggest college football game ever. It certainly is here in Michigan and in Ohio. Growing up in the...
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Quartics makes a chip that gets video from your PC to a TV. And it does it with minimal effort and at low cost. That’s something we’ve all been waiting for.
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Crude plunges over $ 2 as traders say swelling inventories leave no place for storage.
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A newly designed robot can sense and recover from unexpected damage, an ability that is sure to prove handy in dangerous terrain, researchers announced Thursday.
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In a remote corner of Africa, an extraordinary evolutionary tale is unfolding, uncovered by the actor Jeremy Irons and an award-winning documentary team. A new film, Relentless Enemies, will tell the story of the emergence of a distinct subspecies of big cat on a tiny and isolated island in the Duba Plains of Botswana’s...
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Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.
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The findings are consistent with the idea of dark energy behaving like Albert Einstein’s cosmological constant. The cosmological constant describes the idea that there is a density and pressure associated with “empty” space.
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A Midwest hotel chain has pulled CNN from the TV channel lineup in its guest rooms, saying the cable network was aiding terrorism with the broadcast of a video showing Iraqi snipers shooting at U.S. troops.
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