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Schilling's 38 Studios files for bankruptcy

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's troubled video-gaming company, lured to Rhode Island with a $75 million state loan guarantee two years ago, filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday, and federal authorities have begun an investigation into the firm.

The filing by Providence-based 38 Studios, which laid ...

LGBT teens find fitting in difficult

A first-of-its-kind survey of 10,000 American youth who say they are a sexual minority finds that most feel accepted by their families, but they often struggle with community acceptance and even believe they will have to leave their hometowns to be happy someday.

This survey is "a stark wake-up call ...

A Bipartisan Tax Repeal

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
Thirty-seven House Democrats join Republicans in voting to rescind ObamaCare's medical-devices levy.


A Bayou Legal Brawl

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
Jindal says he'll sign bills limiting legacy drilling lawsuits.


Strassel: Scott Walker's Education Victory

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
Union reforms have freed more money for classrooms in Wisconsin. And not only in Wisconsin.


Analysts: 'Ship of state always leaks'

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
Presidential election years amplify controversies over leaks of classified information, but it's unclear how egregious the leak about an alleged U.S. cyberwar against Iran may be to national security, presidential historians and analysts say.
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David Gibson: U.S. Bishops Still Stonewall on Sex Abuse

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
Ten years after the 'Dallas charter,' church leaders keep dodging accountability.


John Yoo: Obama, Drones and Thomas Aquinas

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
Obama has avoided vexing detention issues simply by depriving terrorists of all of their rights—by killing them.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves corrects New York Times columnist Paul Krugman about Estonia's economic performance.


Maen Rashid Areikat: The Time for a Palestinian State Is Now

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
It is in Israel's vital interest to resolve the conflict and end the 45-year occupation.


Feinstein: Leaks probe not 'finger-pointing'

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
Members of the House Intelligence Committee say the recent "cascade of leaks" is extremely upsetting.
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Administration targets leaks using 1917 law

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
The Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to prosecute alleged leakers six times -- more than all the other administrations combined.
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Teens often texting while driving

ATLANTA | More than half of high school seniors admit they text or email while driving - the first federal statistics on how common the dangerous habit is among teens.

An anonymous national survey conducted last year found that 58 percent of high school seniors said they had texted or ...

Hyper-partisanship dragging down nation

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
John Avlon says a Pew study shows what we've all felt--Americans are more divided on politics than on race, sex, age and class. Can the country dig out of this?
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69 Democrats urge release of Waters' report

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
A group of 69 congressional Democrats called on the House Ethics Committee on Thursday to immediately release a special counsel's report dismissing claims that Rep. Maxine Waters' rights were violated during the panel's continuing inquiry into alleged misconduct on the part of the 11-term California congresswoman.
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Holder rejects House GOP on Fast and Furious

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 18:34
Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday withstood a four-hour grilling dominated by Republican House members seeking to lay blame on Holder for a botched gun-smuggling sting operation.
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Bear enjoying Cape Cod vacation

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — The biggest sensation on Cape Cod right now isn't the lobster, the historic lighthouses or its rolling sand dunes. It's not even a Kennedy.

It's a bear.

A bruin believed to have swum about 500 feet across the Cape Cod Canal from the mainland during Memorial Day ...

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