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NPR: U.S. Has More Guns, Fewer Homicides than Russia

NPR: U.S. Has More Guns, Fewer Homicides than Russia

In an effort to provide Obama with cover and respond to Russian Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Alexei Pushkov’s mocking of the Washington Navy Yard shooting, National Public Radio (NPR) dug up some facts about shootings and gun crime around the

Baby Is Born in Japan After Ovary Experiment

Baby Is Born in Japan After Ovary Experiment

A new technique that coaxes an infertile woman’s ovaries into producing eggs again has resulted in the birth of a baby in Japan, international scientists said Monday. A second woman has also become pregnant using the same method, according to

Global Study: World Not Ready for Aging Population

Global Study: World Not Ready for Aging Population

(AP) Global study: World not ready for aging populationBy KRISTEN GELINEAUAssociated PressThe world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study going out Tuesday by

Senate Clears Bill to Pay Military in Shutdown

Senate Clears Bill to Pay Military in Shutdown

(AP) Senate clears bill to pay military in shutdownBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Senate has adopted a bill to pay members of the military in case the government shuts down. The unanimous voice vote Monday sends the legislation to the White

Hitler's 'Fatwa' Against War, 1940

Hitler's 'Fatwa' Against War, 1940

President Barack Obama’s telephone call with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani took place on the 75th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s appeal to Adolf Hitler for peace in Europe. Roosevelt urged that “negotiations [between Germany and Czechoslovakia] be continued until

Snowden Among Finalists for EU Human Rights Prize

Snowden Among Finalists for EU Human Rights Prize

(AP) Snowden among finalists for EU human rights prizeBRUSSELSU.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is among three finalists for the European Union’s top human rights prize. European lawmakers on Monday narrowed down the list of nominees for the prestigious 50,000 euro

Three Conditions for an Israeli Strike on Iran

Three Conditions for an Israeli Strike on Iran

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Barack Obama today, he will do so against the backdrop of vastly changed circumstances. President Obama’s bungling of the Syria crisis has established that the U.S. is no longer a deterrent force

Saudi Cleric Says Female Drivers Risk Damaging Ovaries

Saudi Cleric Says Female Drivers Risk Damaging Ovaries

Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan, one of the 21 members of Saudi Arabia’s senior group of scholars with the authority to write fatwas (religious edicts), has stated women should not drive because they could injure their ovaries and subsequently bear damaged children. 

Obama Falls for Iranian 'Fatwa' Hoax on Nuclear Weapons

Obama Falls for Iranian 'Fatwa' Hoax on Nuclear Weapons

Last week, President Barack Obama assured the United Nations General Assembly that Iran did not actually seek nuclear weapons. However, the basis for Obama’s defense of Iranian intentions is an elaborate hoax. Obama said that a “fatwa,” or religious ruling, by

White Widow Married to Kenyan Naval Officer

White Widow Married to Kenyan Naval Officer

The Daily Mail revealed Samantha Lewthwaite, the White Widow who played a key role in the Nairobi mall massacre, is married to a former officer in the Kenyan Navy according to a confidential Scotland Yard file. This is just the

Pakistan Explosion: Dozens Killed in Peshawar Market

Pakistan Explosion: Dozens Killed in Peshawar Market

(BBC) An explosion has ripped through a market in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, leaving at least 33 dead and dozens wounded, officials say. Police said a bomb had exploded in the Kissa Khwani market, with shops and vehicles

Outrage after China Executes Street Vendor

The Chinese government is under attack on the Internet from those outraged at the government’s execution last Wednesday of a street vendor who fatally stabbed two security officials who allegedly brutalized him. Xia Junfeng, a street vendor who was confronted