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Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C.

Life vote

Abortion | Despite disdain from Democrats, the House passes a late-term abortion ban that protects unborn babies capable of feeling pain

Old Main on the Geneva College campus

Geneva College wins temporary shelter from contraceptive mandate

Healthcare |  A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction against the contraceptive mandate to Geneva College on Tuesday. Geneva, a Christian school in Beaver Falls,

Stephan Greving, top left, talks to his students from the Goddard Riverside Headstart Program about butterfly antennae at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Head Start: Fishy finances

Education |  In Greg Kaufmann’s latest installment of “This Week in Poverty” for The Nation , he claims Congress has turned its back on rural America through the…

Orphaned children hold on to their toys at the Bethel foster home for the care and education of blind and disabled children in Lan Fang, China.

China clamps down on families who rescue abandoned babies

China |  China has banned groups and individuals from privately adopting abandoned infants, making it much harder for babies without families to find good homes. The…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Cuomo concedes a round

Abortion |  New York governor says it looks like the state Senate has successfully blocked his abortion bill for this legislative session

Brimfield Police Chief David Oliver

Status update: Shamed on Facebook

Technology |  Petty criminals locked into stocks while passersby mock them—a scene from the past? In Kent, Ohio, Police Chief David Oliver is bringing back the practice,

Netflix teams up with DreamWorks for animated partnership

Netflix teams up with DreamWorks for animated partnership

Business |  Parents with Netflix rejoice—your kids’ favorite DreamWorks characters will soon be on demand. Yesterday, Netflix announced that beginning in 2014 it will…

Chen Guancheng, left, and his wife, Yuan Weijing, arrive at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University.

NYU rejects Chinese dissident's accusations

China |  Officials at New York University (NYU) denied claims by blind Chinese dissident Chen Guancheng that the school is ousting him because of pressure from the…

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hands with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Midday Roundup: Taliban agrees to peace talks

Newsworthy |  Hope for Afghanistan? Obama administration officials announced today the Taliban has agreed to peace talks ahead of the planned U.S. troop withdrawal from…

President Obama

Then what in Syria?

Foreign Policy |  Two recent newspaper editorials illustrate the double-mindedness some feel about President Obama’s decision to provide small arms and ammunition to Syrian…

Things snuck in

Homosexuality |  I recently signed on with a new home energy supplier through a clean-cut representative who came to the door armed with graphs and rationales for why his…

Canadian Ambassador of Religious Freedom Andrew Bennett

Northern reinforcements

Religion |  Canada’s new ambassador for religious freedom will bolster U.S. efforts on the issue worldwide

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