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Government should protect all citizens
Malai Yousufzai said, “I don’t mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I am afraid of no one.” On Tuesday, Oct. 9, the Taliban shot this 14-year-old Pakistani girl on her way home from school because...Tags: Planned Parenthood, Elections, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Pakistan
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happines are everyone's rights
As most Americans celebrated the independence of the United States from Great Britain this past weekend it’s doubtful that organization like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) or Amnesty International...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Skokie, Illinois, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Civil Rights
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93-5 'KHY Rock Report
Headlines for Wednesday, June 19, 2013
RAY MANZAREK: Last Recordings Out Today
Less than a month after his death comes a new album from Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Twisted Tales is Manzarek's third album with slide guitar player Roy Rogers came...Tags: Charlie Rose, Staples Center, Los Angeles Hotels, Cage the Elephant (music group), Music
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Istanbul protesters fear what a new day will bring
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- It’s dawn and tea pots bubble above low flames. Faces appear, poking out from tents, with reddened eyes. The first cigarettes of the day are lit, their tips glowing orange. Smartphones glow as people line up in an exhausted haze,...Tags: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Nelson Mandela, Abdullah Gul, Activism, Human Rights
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Turkey's Erdogan issues 'last' warning to Istanbul protesters
ISTANBUL, Turkey – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday issued what he said was a final warning: The protesters in Gezi Park would be removed within 24 hours, he told a meeting of his Justice and Development Party in the capital,...Tags: Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Abdullah Gul, Activism, Human Rights, Turkey
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The good news in Turkey
How to interpret the recent unrest on the streets of Istanbul and about 50 other Turkish cities? Specifically, is it comparable to the Arab uprisings over the last 2 1/2 years in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain? On one level, they appear...
Tags: European Union, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, White House, NATO, Wars and Interventions
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China frustration with North Korea offers hope for US
WASHINGTON (AP) — China's growing frustration with longtime ally North Korea offers the United States a glimmer of hope about a once unthinkable prospect: holding discussions between Washington and Beijing about what to do if the government in...
Tags: South Korea, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, Weaponry, Xi Jinping
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Pennsylvania should abolish the death penalty
Are you in favor of the death penalty? Why? Many people say we need it because the death penalty deters crime, but that is not true. In 2012, the National Research Council evaluated statistical studies only to conclude "that the studies do not provide...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Bethlehem Township (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Crime, Law and Justice, Death Penalty, Prisons
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You name it, Eric Garcetti has done it
In exactly one week, Los Angeles will wake up with a newly elected mayor. The lucky leader of 4 million restless campers with cracked sidewalks could be Wendy Greuel, the business-suited Valley kid who worked for Mayor Tom Bradley and President...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, England, Wendy Greuel, Entertainment
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Palestinians in West Bank's Area C suffer in limbo
MALEH, West Bank — In remote Palestinian villages of the northern Jordan Valley, children read by gas lamp, and water must be purchased from miles away, even when electricity lines and water pipes to Israeli settlements run directly past their...
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, European Union, Oslo (Norway), Religion and Belief, Israel
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Global arms trade treaty still has a shot, backers say
A groundbreaking pact to regulate the global weapons trade still has a chance of success after Iran, North Korea and Syria blocked the draft treaty at the United Nations this week. But even if the treaty passes, its power will hinge on how nations...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Iraq War (2003-2011), Weaponry, Wars and Interventions, Iran
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Press Freedom Day: Where reporters and their work are threatened
Friday marks World Press Freedom Day, first declared by the United Nations two decades ago as a day to nurture the freedom of journalists -- or to remind the world of where it falls short. Rights groups pointed to several spots on the globe where...
Tags: Media Industry, Somalia, United Nations, Benigno Aquino III, Murder
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