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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of WWI "Peace Cross" Memorial
Those issues are likely to come before the court in future cases. Decades ago, this Court recognized that the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution demands governmental neutrality among religious faiths, and between religion and nonreligion. [Full Article...]
American charged with spying in Russia appeals to Trump
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According to Reuters news reports , the former marine official, who holds Irish, US, Canadian and British passports, was arrested in a hotel room in Moscow on December 28, accused of espionage - a charge which Whelan denies any wrongdoing. [Full Article...]
Mastermind of Sudan deadly crackdown identified, says general
The Transitional Military Council took over the country after massive protests drove president Omar al-Bashir from power in April. Last week, the spokesman for the military council, Gen. Sudan's ruling Transitional Military Council has rejected calls for an global investigation after thousands of protesters who had camped outside the army headquarters in central Khartoum for weeks were dispers... [Full Article...]
Man held in David Ortiz shooting charged with drug, weapons offences
Plenty of rumors have been swirling around on the motives behind the senseless attack on the life of one of baseball's most beloved ambassadors, but the authorities in the Dominican Republic have tried to tamp down many suspicions by adding a conspiracy theory of their own, that claims Ortiz was never the intended target . [Full Article...]
Seven workers dead, 21 injured in Cambodia building collapse
The collapsed building is Chinese-owned, according to Saroeun. "We have pulled out a body and we see two more bodies still stuck between debris", provincial governor Yun Min told the AFP news agency. Workers battled to clear the rubble. Home to Cambodia's largest port and a Chinese Special Economic Zone connected to Beijing's Belt and Road initiative, the town is also undergoing a construction... [Full Article...]
Cory Booker steps into spotlight with forceful rebuke of Joe Biden
His rivals have blasted him for saying working with "civility" with the segregationists had "got things done". His own aides have repeatedly cautioned in White House meetings against elevating Biden from the pack of almost two-dozen Democrats running. [Full Article...]
Spain's 'Wolfpack': Five get 15-year jail terms for teen's rape
The teenage victim was found weeping on the bench by a couple who called the police. The Supreme Court's ruling, hailed by women's' rights groups and by the government, accepted that the victim's ordeal met the requirement in Spanish law that the plaintiff in a rape case must present evidence of intimidation or specific violence. [Full Article...]
Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of sexual assault
Carroll writes they began chatting after running into each other at the NY designer store Bergdorf Goodman, and he followed her into a dressing room. I'm not sure if all 21 entries are stories of sexual assault, but the ones shared in an excerpt published in New York Magazine are. Trump would have been about 49 at the time. [Full Article...]