The brutal rape of a five year-old girl in New Delhi has sparked a new wave of protests across the nation and caused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to call for changes in attitudes toward women in India.
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Doctors are speaking up about a dangerous teen YouTube craze known as the cinnamon challenge which has sent children to hospitals and caused a surge in calls to U.S. poison control centers.
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In the wake of the death of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, friends are coming forward to say his young wife, Katherine Russell, radically changed and seemed to have been brainwashed by her extremist husband.
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What some are calling a compromise move, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is proposing a change to its policy banning openly homosexual scouts and troop leaders by keeping the policy in place only for adult leaders and volunteers.
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Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) were joined by 70 of their House colleagues in demanding that national broadcast news channels ABC, NBC, and CBS stop blacking out coverage of high-profile abortion controversies such as the "House of Horrors" trial in Philadelphia and Planned Parenthood lobbying in support of infanticide.
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A 54 year-old homosexual activist from Connecticut received five years probation from a federal judge for making repeated death threats to the staff of a local pro-family group, a sentence that would have been much tougher if the group had not asked the judge to show him mercy.
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April 16 marked the second time in six months that members of a high school football team faced felony charges for the rape of a teenage girl - a crime they photographed and then texted to friends. What's behind this spate of heartless crimes that has already led to the death of two young women?
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
In the wake of the bombing of the Boston Marathon, very human stories are emerging of horrific injuries and death as well as extraordinary heroism in the face of an unspeakable crime.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
As so many have forewarned, opening the door to "alternative family" arrangements such as same-sex marriage is bound to give way to calls for the legalization of other arrangements, such as a recently published argument in a major online magazine claiming polygamy is good for women and children.
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Fifty Shades of Grey made the American Library Association's (ALA) most recent list of the top 10 most complained-about books, but it's only in fourth place!
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