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Experts cast doubt on Sandusky's disorder defense

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
The defense in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse trial is suggesting that a personality disorder explains some of the charges the former Penn State assistant football coach, but one expert says that may be a stretch....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

VIDEO: Chinese media's US expansion

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
Chinese state-owned media is expanding its news services in foreign countries as it seeks to offer its vision of global events.
Categories: BBC, News

Baseball star cleared of perjury

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
Legendary US baseball pitcher Roger Clemens is cleared of lying to Congress over the use of performance-enhancing drugs as a fast-ball pitcher.
Categories: BBC, News

Nuns' bus tour highlights clash with bishops over their activism

DES MOINES, Iowa — A group of Roman Catholic nuns began a nine-state bus tour protesting proposed federal budget cuts Monday, saying they weren't trying to flout recent Vatican criticisms of socially active nuns but felt called to show how Republican policies are affecting low-income families.

The tour was organized ...

Sandusky judge says jury could get case by Thursday

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Friends and ex-colleagues of Jerry Sandusky testified Monday on behalf of the former Penn State assistant football coach as his defense sought to counter claims of prosecution witnesses that he sexually abused boys in the shower on Penn State's campus.

The testimony came on what was a ...

Abortion clinics in Pa. face new regulations

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Nearly all of the state's abortion clinics are expected to remain open under a tougher law that raises surgical and sanitation standards as a response to grotesque conditions discovered at a Philadelphia clinic two years ago, state officials said Monday.

The law takes effect Tuesday, six months ...

VIDEO: Nicklinson: Let doctors help me die

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
Interview with Tony Nicklinson who has "locked-in syndrome" following a stroke in 2005.
Categories: BBC, News

Man takes spray can to 1929 Picasso

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
A vandal is captured on a cell phone spray painting a 1929 Picasso painting at a Houston museum. KPRC has the video.
Categories: CNN, News

Early Obama backer defects to GOP

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
Ex-Rep. Artur Davis explains to CNN's Wolf Blitzer why he left the Democratic Party and plans to vote for Mitt Romney.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Suspect in body parts case returning to Canada

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
MONTREAL (AP) -- A Canadian porn actor suspected in the dismemberment of a Chinese student was on his way back to Canada on Monday via military transport from Germany, where he was arrested this month....

`Madagascar 3' stays on top of box office

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Wisecracking zoo animals held off `80s rockers and overgrown adolescents to maintain the top spot at the box office this past weekend....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

`Madagascar 3' stays on top of box office

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Wisecracking zoo animals held off `80s rockers and overgrown adolescents to maintain the top spot at the box office this past weekend....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Simpler is Better: Dust Off Glass-Steagall

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
A $2 billion loss can produce a moment of humility even in a fabled master of American banking and international finance.2012-06-18T16:05:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZPaul Greenberg
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Conservatives for Shariah

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has caused many Americans to reflect on that group's stated ambition to impose worldwide the totalitarian,supremacist Islamic doctrine known as shariah. Particularly unsettling is evidence of the group's goal in America, namely of "destroying Western civilization from within," as documented in the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas in 2008.2012-06-18T15:53:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZFrank Gaffney
Categories: Issues, TownHall.com

Obama to Main Street: Drop Dead

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
A Wall Street Journal story by Robin Sidel looks at a troubling trend in the banking industry. No, not the JPMorgans of the industry losing $2 billion on bad bets, but on small community banks who don't have the word "billion" anywhere on their balance sheets. According to her piece: "A growing number of tiny community banks are deciding it's time to put out the 'for sale' sign … many executives of these small lenders are frustrated by costly, new regulations." 2012-06-18T11:01:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZRich Galen
Categories: Issues, TownHall.com

“Sustainable Justice” á la Rio+20

TownHall.com - Columns - Sat, 2025-04-19 08:37
Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration would “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” One clue to what he meant was his comment to now-congressional candidate Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher: “When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”2012-06-18T10:21:00-04:002012-06-18T22:10:03ZPaul Driessen
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