Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill Goes To Kansas Governor

Kansas abortion-rights lobbyists Elise Higgins, left, and Holly Weatherford, watch the Senate’s debate on anti-abortion legislation from the gallery, Friday, April 5, 2013, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Higgins represents the Kansas chapter of the National Organization for Women and Weatherford, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri. (AP Photo/John Hanna) […]

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Kansas legislators gave final passage to a sweeping anti-abortion measure Friday night, sending Gov. Sam Brownback a bill that declares life begins "at fertilization" while blocking tax breaks for abortion providers and banning abortions performed solely because of the baby's sex. The House voted 90-30 for a compromise version of the bill

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Obama: Proposed Budget Not His ‘Ideal’ Plan

In this April 3, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Police Academy in Denver. A senior administration official said Friday, April 5, 2013 that Obama’s proposed budget will call for reductions in in the growth of federal Social Security pensions and other benefit programs in an attempt to strike a compromise with […]

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Confronting bipartisan criticism, President Barack Obama conceded Saturday his proposed budget is not his "ideal plan" but said it offers "tough reforms" to the nation's benefit programs while closing loopholes for the wealthy, a mix that he argued will provide long-term deficit reduction without harming the economy. In his first comments about

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Virginia’s GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Defends Anti-Sodomy Law

This Sept. 6, 2011 file photo shows a man walking past a group of people protesting against gay marriage outside a courtroom where the California Supreme Court was hearing arguments in San Francisco. The Obama administration is quietly considering urging the Supreme Court to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage, a step that could be […]

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Once thought to have been designed to bar consensual gay sex, the Crimes Against Nature law has resurfaced in Virginia once again after Virginia’s attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli asked the Fourth Circuit to reconsider the case. Up until March of this year, the state of Virginia had an anti-sodomy law, which

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Lead Poisoning Toll Revised To 1 in 38 Young Kids

Cuyahoga County Board of Health lead risk assessor Tom Barsa swipes a windowsill Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Lakewood, Ohio. More than half a million U.S. children are now believed to have lead poisoning, roughly twice the previous high estimate, health officials reported Thursday. The increase is the result of the government last year lowering […]

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More than half a million U.S. children are now believed to have lead poisoning, roughly twice the previous high estimate, health officials reported Thursday. The increase is the result of the government last year lowering the threshold for lead poisoning, so now more children are considered at risk. Too much lead can harm developing brains and

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Terror Group Recruits From Pakistan’s ‘Best and Brightest’

Inspector General of Pakistan’s police Habib-ur-Rehman, second from left, shows a suicide jacket and ammunition, reportedly recovered from terrorists, to media during a news conference in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Rehman has revealed that two terrorists have been arrested accused of being involved in the attack on Kamra Airbase and the murder […]

Sebastian Rotella
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Imagine a terrorist group that recruits tens of thousands of young men from the same neighborhoods and social networks as the Pakistani military. A group whose well-educated recruits defy the idea that poverty and ignorance breed extremism. A group whose fighters include relatives of a politician, a senior Army officer and a director of Pakistan's

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Too Early For 2016? Not For Hillary Clinton’s Fans

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the Vital Voices Global Partnership 2013 Global Leadership Awards gala at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) Hillary Rodham Clinton stayed on safe political ground Tuesday, advocating women’s rights globally in a 12-minute speech, but that was […]

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Hillary Rodham Clinton stayed on safe political ground Tuesday, advocating women's rights globally in a 12-minute speech, but that was enough to excite fans imploring the former first lady, senator and secretary of state to run again for president three years from now. Clinton, perhaps as popular as ever in her 22 years in national politics,

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