SHOCK: ACLU Blesses Nativity Movie Screening in VA Public Schools

By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
November 30, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - As religious groups continue to react to the exclusion of a Bible-based movie from a Chicago Christmas festival, Christian activists in Virginia are meeting no resistance as they move ahead with plans to screen the film in public school facilities.
Not only are the schools presenting [...]

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Midwest Storm Brings Thunderstorms, Ice, Snow, Wind

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Storms that roared through the Northwest and Rockies earlier in the week blew into the southern Plains and Midwest on Thursday, bringing the first significant ice and snow of the season.
The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings from Texas to Illinois for Thursday and in some northern areas, through [...]

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Taylor Hicks ‘Idol’ Rant

NEW YORK POST
Post Staff Writer
‘AMERICAN Idol” winner Taylor Hicks is biting the hand that made him a star.
The gray-haired pop-star says he won’t watch the Fox show anymore - and just wanted to use the exposure he got from winning “Idol” to further his career.
” ‘American Idol’ for me is fizzling out,” he tells the [...]

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‘Seinfeld’ Sales Soars on Racist Rant

NEW YORK POST
By Don Kaplan
NEW YORK - THE K-K-Kramer scandal murdered Michael Richards’ career - but it’s doing wonders for sales of the latest “Seinfeld” DVD.
Season 7 of the popular sitcom is outselling the Season 6 set (released on the same day last year) by more than 75 percent, and more than 90 percent over [...]

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BREAKING: ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence of Iranian Support for Iraqi Insurgents

ABC News
By: JONATHAN KARL AND MARTIN CLANCY
EXCLUSIVE: Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.
This [...]

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Pope Visits Turkish Mosque

TURKEY
Pope Benedict XVI has visited one of Turkey’s most famous mosques in what is being seen as an attempt to mend relations with the Muslim community.
During his tour of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, the pontiff turned towards Mecca in a gesture of Muslim prayer.
It marks only the second papal visit in history to a [...]

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Woman Sues Over Lack of Guacamole in Dip

LOST ANGELES — Wholly guacamole?
That’s the issue in a fraud lawsuit filed Wednesday against Kraft Foods, Inc., by a Los Angeles woman who claims the company’s avocado dip doesn’t qualify as guacamole.
“It just didn’t taste avocadoey,” said Brenda Lifsey, who [...]

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Deadly Radioactive Polonium-210 Discovered on Two British Airways Jets

LONDON - British Airways said that “very low traces of a radioactive substance” had been found on two of its three aircraft taken out of service in the probe into the death of a former Russian spy.
BA said it withdrew three Boeing 767 short-haul carriers from service “to enable forensic examination to be carried out” [...]

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San Diego to Ban Wal-Mart Supercenters

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The City Council here voted late Tuesday to ban certain giant retail stores, dealing a blow to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s potential to expand in the nation’s eighth-largest city.
The measure, approved on a 5-3 vote, prohibits stores of more than 90,000 square feet that use 10 percent of space to sell groceries [...]

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U.S. Dollar Plunges To An Almost 15 Year Low

The dollar tumbled to a near a 15-year low against sterling yesterday on fresh signs of economic trouble in the United States.
An 8.3pc crash in US industrial orders and an admission by the Federal Reserve chairman that Washington does not know how bad housing really is set off another day of wild gyrations on the [...]

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Mother Microwaves Baby to Death

DAYTON, Ohio - A mother was arrested on suspicion of murdering her newborn daughter by putting the baby in a microwave oven.
China Arnold, 26, was jailed Monday on a charge of aggravated murder, more than a year after she brought her dead month-old baby to a hospital.
“We have reason to believe, and we have some [...]

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Teacher Drinks Deadly Chemicals, Students Questioned

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — Officials at a Goose Creek elementary school say police plan to question fifth grade students about a teacher who became ill after drinking deadly chemicals earlier this month.
The teacher at Boulder Bluff Elementary was hospitalized in critical condition November 16 after drinking methanol and ethylene glycol, a clear, colorless liquid used [...]

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Red Sox Make Offer to Japanese Pitcher Matsuzaka

TOKYO
The Red Sox have made an offer to pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka that Boston president Larry Lucchino describes as “fair” and “comprehensive.”
Lucchino, in Tokyo on Tuesday after meeting with representatives of Matsuzaka’s Seibu Lions, said the Red Sox have taken the next step toward signing the Japanese star.
“We have sent a formal offer to Matsuzaka and [...]

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Study: Women Talk Three Times More Than Men

It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men.
In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man.
Women also [...]

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Verizon Wireless to Feature YouTube Videos

NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube videos will be viewable on cell phones for the first time under a deal with Verizon Wireless, which will also allow users to upload videos shot with their camera phones.
The partnership to be announced Tuesday marks the first big distribution deal for YouTube since the young video-sharing Web site was [...]

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U.S. Embassy Asks Bush Twins to Leave Argentina; UPDATE: Embassy Denies Claim

UPDATE: EMBASSY DENIES…
Original Story
Joe Goldman and Rhonda Schwartz Report:
Amid a growing barrage of front-page headlines, U.S. embassy officials “strongly suggested” President Bush’s twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, cut short their trip to Buenos Aires because of security issues, U.S. diplomatic and security sources tell ABC News.
But the girls have stayed on, [...]

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How Muslim Imams Terrorized a US Airways Flight

Muslim religious leaders removed from a Minneapolis flight last week exhibited behavior associated with a security probe by terrorists and were not merely engaged in prayers, according to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials.
Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted “Allah” when passengers were called for [...]

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SHOCK: ‘Nativity’ Booted From Illinois Fair

CHICAGO (AP) - A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film “The Nativity Story” might offend non-Christians.
New Line Cinema, which [...]

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UK: More Women Having Abortions as it Loses Social Stigma

UNITED KINGDOM
Women are finding it more acceptable to have an abortion than to drift into an unplanned pregnancy, the head of Britain’s leading abortion agency said yesterday.
Ann Furedi, the chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), said one women in five was now childless at the age of 45 and an increasing number [...]

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‘ALL MY CHILDREN’ Introducing Transgender Character

NEW YORK (AP) - In a story unusual even for a soap opera and believed to be a television first, ABC’s “All My Children” this week will introduce a transgender character who is beginning to make the transition from a man into a woman.
The character, a flamboyant rock star known as Zarf, kisses the lesbian [...]

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VIDEOS: Teacher on Leave After Outburst Posted on YouTube

OTTAWA - Quebec school officials are considering banning the use of cameras and cellphones in all classrooms after two students secretly recorded their teacher’s angry outburst and posted three clips on YouTube.
Jocelyn Blondin, chairman of the Commission scolaire des Portages-de-l’Outaouais, said Friday two Grade 9 students, one female and the other male, provoked the unnamed [...]

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Scientists Invent ‘The Pill’ for Men

British scientists have developed a revolutionary pill that men could take as a one-off contraceptive just before a date.
The tablet would prevent a man from being able to impregnate a woman, but within a few hours his fertility would return to normal.
This would make it much more acceptable to men than other ‘male pills’ [...]

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Pamela Anderson to Divorce Kid Rock

NEW YORK (AP) — Pamela Anderson has filed for divorce from Kid Rock after less than four months of marriage, the actress’ publicist said Monday.
Anderson’s representative said the former “Baywatch” star filed for divorce last week, but would not comment on the reason or any particulars of the divorce. The split was first reported by [...]

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Cheri Blair: ‘Press Has No Ethics’

Cherie Blair has launched an extraordinary attack on the media claiming there is “no professional morality in journalism”.
The Prime Minister’s wife took her revenge on a profession that has bedevilled her for years when invited to address students at Roehampton University on Wednesday.
She told a stunned audience that it was “not a noble calling” and [...]

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Star NFL Quarterback Makes Obscene Gesture to Home Crowd

Michael Vick apologized for making an obscene gesture toward Atlanta fans as he walked off the field after the Falcons’ fourth straight loss Sunday. Vick used both hands to deliver the gesture and flashed an angry look toward the handful of fans remaining in the Georgia Dome. Those who hung around booed the home [...]

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