U.S.
Stronger laws against hate crimes needed
June 17, 2009Original source: At a June 5 U.S. government-sponsored human rights panel discussion in Geneva, Switzerland, Wade Henderson, president and CEO of LCCR, called for the adoption of more effective hate crime laws in the United States....
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Poll: Online news sources top all others
June 17, 2009UTICA, N.Y. — As broadcast television network newscasts continue to lose viewers by the month, a new online survey by Zogby Interactive shows that the Internet is by far the preferred source for information, and that...
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Beetle-ravaged forests prompt pleas for aid
June 17, 2009WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials from Rocky Mountain states urged Congress on Tuesday help them avert a potential catastrophe this summer as they grapple with millions of acres of beetle-ravaged pines that are prone to fire. Local...
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Supreme Court refuses to hear case of Cuba 5
June 16, 2009WASHINGTON -- The United States Supreme Court today refused, without comment, to hear the case of the “Cuba 5,” Cuban citizens jailed by the federal government in a case that has generated intense international criticism of...
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Holocaust Museum, Kansas doctor: When hate and politics turn deadly
June 16, 2009WASHINGTON — Labor and human rights groups as well as political commentators have reacted with alarm to the May 31 murder of Dr. George Tiller, the Wichita doctor who performed abortions, and, 12 days later, the...
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