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Lake middle school gay-straight club hosts first meet after months of opposition
Sentinel School ZoneEighth-grader Bayli Silberstein Tuesday morning sat in front a small gathering of Carver Middle School students who for the first time could hold a meeting as a Gay-Straight Alliance. The meeting followed more than a year of opposition from two school...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Health and Safety at School
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Civil Rights Group Calling for 'Modern Family' Gay Wedding: Marry Cam and Mitch!
ReutersMay 15 (TheWrap.com) - The American Civil Liberties Union has finally weighed in on the topic that's been weighing on the national consciousness for far too long: Whether Mitchell and Cameron from "Modern Family" should tie the knot. The civil-rights...Tags: Marriage, Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians, ABC (tv network), Defense of Marriage Act
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Senators struggle with tech industry concerns on U.S. immigration bill
Reuters* Schumer seeks to broker a deal * "Need all the support we can get" By Rachelle Younglai and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Senate supporters of a broad U.S. immigration bill struggled on Wednesday to satisfy technology companies that want...Tags: Anti Trust Crime, Employees, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice System
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FAU president's resignation no surprise
Given the semester from hell she just endured, it's not surprising that Florida Atlantic University president Mary Jane Saunders quit this week. In the end, Saunders couldn't please anyone and alienated just about everyone: trustees, students, faculty,...
Tags: Teachers, Sports, Florida Atlantic University, Teaching and Learning, Students
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ACLU lobbies 'Modern Family' producers to script a wedding for gay couple
NEW YORK (AP) — The ACLU is lobbying for the gay couple on "Modern Family" to get married. ACLU Action started a campaign to urge the show's producers to write a wedding episode for Mitchell and Cameron, fathers of an adopted child and one of three...Tags: Family, Marriage, Lobbying, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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ANALYSIS-Once a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties
ReutersBy Joan Biskupic and David Ingram WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He may have written a book extolling...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Republican Party, Religion and Belief, U.S. Congress, Yemen
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Analysis: Once a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He may have written a book extolling constitutional values in a democracy. And he may have...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Republican Party, Religion and Belief, Yemen, U.S. Congress
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In uproar over U.S. seizure of AP records, focus turns to Holder
ReutersBy Tabassum Zakaria and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was likely to face a storm of questions on Tuesday over the Justice Department's controversial decision to seize telephone records of the Associated...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, DC, National Security, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Entertainment Events
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Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Associated Press said on Monday the U.S. government secretly seized telephone records of AP offices and reporters for a two-month period in 2012, describing the acts as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Justice System, Washington, DC, U.S. House of Representatives, National Security
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A Look at Racial Disparities in Connecticut's Criminal Justice System
At least 29 people in Connecticut have died in the past seven years after deadly encounters with cops: 18 shot to death; probably 11 more after being hit by police Tasers. Almost 59 percent of those fatal incidents involved blacks or Latinos,...
Tags: Prisons, Laws, Mental Health, Justice System, Minority Groups
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Angelina Jolie, the Supreme Court and gene patents
It's hard to imagine Supreme Court justices paying much attention to the travails of Hollywood's rich and famous. Still, there's an interesting connection between Angelina Jolie's disclosure Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy and a case the...Tags: Genetic Engineering, Medical Research, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Research, Breast Cancer
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Angelina Jolie and the fate of breast cancer genes
Angelina Jolie’s Op-Ed in the New York Times about getting a double mastectomy after learning that she was at risk of getting breast cancer struck a chord with fellow celebs as well as with Los Angeles Times staffers Anna Gorman and Paul Whitefield,...
Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Research, Women's Health, Genetics, Biotechnology
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