Christian College Students Attacked in IraqERBIL, Iraq - About 70 college students, most of them Christians, were wounded Sunday and another Iraqi was killed when a convoy of school buses was attacked in a double bombing on the outskirts of the northern city of Mosul, according to a security official ( Read more... )

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Hispanic advocates often tell the story of a Census Bureau worker who visits a Puerto Rican household in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood. Seeing the family's caramel complexion, the Census taker asks which race he should put down for them - white or black. To which the family answers: "Puerto Rican ( Read more... )

No photos or video of sweet suffering faces. No popular vacation landscape for a backdrop. No personal connective ties. Are those the reasons the natural disaster in the Great Plains has gone below our philanthropy radar ( Read more... )

these all date from Fri, Jan 8th

Freeze may take heavy toll on Florida citrusCNN) -- Frigid temperatures threatened Florida citrus crops as much of the Southeast into plunged into the teens Monday morning ( Read more... )

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Taiwan typhoon toll could triple as entire village lies buriedSHIAO LIN, Taiwan (CNN) -- The number of people killed in Taiwan by Typhoon Morakot, a destructive storm that swept through East Asia last week, could triple because hundreds of people are feared trapped under mudslides, the president's office said Friday ( Read more... )

SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- The California Supreme Court upheld Tuesday a ban on same-sex marriages that state voters passed in November, but it allowed about 18,000 same-sex marriages performed before the ban to remain valid.

Read the rest on CNN.comThis in particular stuck out at me, since I've heard ppl talking about giving rights or ( Read more... )

So following the ruling in California allowing same-sex marriage, New York State (NYS) Governor, David Patterson, has said and has directed NYS official agencies to recognize same-sex marriages though the state itself does not perform them. This ruling has been challenged by the Alliance Defense FundAs a disclaimer, I haven't done much research ( Read more... )