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Judge OKs Challenge to Human Gene Patents
A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and a research ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Obama administration seeks to block wiretap suit
The Justice Department invoked the state secrets privilege Friday to try to stop a lawsuit over Bush-era ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Church of Scientology Convicted of Fraud in France
The court convicted the Church of Scientology's French office, its library and six of its leaders of organized ...Posted by Chris Finnie
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UN Panel Criticizes Russia on Human Rights
Russia fails to protect journalists, activists, prison inmates and others at odds with authorities from a wide ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
African Children Denounced As "Witches" By Christian Pastors
EKET, Nigeria — The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Did California police use a Taser on an unarmed, legless man in a wheelchair?
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Fear was no excuse to condone torture
In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Priority Test: Health Care or Prisons?
Astonishingly, many politicians seem to think that we should lead the world in prisons, not in health care or ...via Nicholas Kristof
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Gestapo Knocks at Door of Northwestern University Journalism School
(Blog Post) I am always offended and annoyed with the labeling of some recent conduct or person with Nazism or Hitler or ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes
this Lieberman amendment, which is now likely to pass, undermines all of that and -- as EBay founder Pierre Omidyar ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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African Children Denounced As "Witches" By Christian Pastors
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Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing Bush-Era Crimes
the Obama administration has sought to conceal information in several high-profile court cases, in an effort that ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Fear was no excuse to condone torture
In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve
