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Texas parents agree to let pregnant teen keep her baby
HOUSTON -- Attorneys for a pregnant Texas girl who sued her parents after alleging that they tried to force her to have an abortion have negotiated an agreement allowing her to keep the baby. “This is a tremendous victory and another life has been...
Tags: Litigation, CNN (tv network), Planned Parenthood, Family Planning, Lawyers
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Chicago baby, shot with father during a diaper change, dies
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.In Chicago, certain names have become synonymous with a specific type of tragedy for girls, which can be recalled with bleak and brief synopsis: Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old majorette, shot in the back after coming home from President Obama's...Tags: Hadiya Pendleton, Shootings, Injuries and Wounds, Garry McCarthy, Injury Prevention
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Idaho law banning abortions after 20 weeks ruled unconstitutional
SEATTLE — A federal judge has struck down an Idaho law prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks, ruling that the so-called fetal pain law violates U.S. Supreme Court prohibitions against unduly impeding a woman’s ability to seek an abortion before...
Tags: Laws, U.S. Supreme Court, Lawyers, Justice System, Prosecution
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Hours after baby dies, police ID suspect in Brooklyn hit-and-run
NEW YORK -- A suspect in the hit-and-run deaths of a pregnant woman and her husband has been identified, hours after the death of the premature baby the woman was carrying, New York police said Monday. Police said they were looking for Julio Acevedo, 44,...
Tags: Colorado Movie Theater Shooting, Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), Christianity, Williamsburg (Bronx, New York), Arts and Culture
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What we need in a pope
On Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff in nearly 600 years to willingly step down from his position. What kind of man will the cardinals who have gathered in Rome from around the world choose to be his successor? We asked Catholics from a...
Tags: Health Treatments, Civil Rights, Human Interest, Minority Groups, Islam
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Bonnie Franklin dies at 69; mom on TV's 'One Day at a Time'
Bonnie Franklin, the actress who created an indelible television character playing a divorced, working mother of two headstrong daughters on the long-running series "One Day at a Time," died Friday at her Los Angeles home. She was 69. The cause was...
Tags: Richard Franklin, University of California, Los Angeles, Television, Health Treatments, Norman Lear
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Jury orders death penalty in 1988 murder of pregnant O.C. woman
L.A. NOWAn Orange County jury on Thursday recommended the death penalty for a man convicted in the cold-case sexual assault and murder of a pregnant 22-year-old woman in 1988 and already serving prison time in Michigan for rape.... -
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer causes uproar with telecommuting ban
SAN FRANCISCO — Corporate America's most famous working mother has banned her employees from working at home. Now the backlash is threatening to overshadow the progress she has made turning around Yahoo Inc. Marissa Mayer, one of only a handful of...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Twitter, Inc., Computer Networking and Internet, Donald Trump
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C. Everett Koop dies at 96; former U.S. surgeon general
In the mid-1980s, the emerging AIDS epidemic was a high-profile target of vocal conservatives. Politicians and the religious right called for sweeping measures against those diagnosed with AIDS, including quarantine of patients, mandatory screening of...
Tags: AIDS, University of Pennsylvania, Viral Diseases and Infections, Brooklyn (New York City), U.S. Public Health Service
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'Downton Abbey' recap: Ending on a (very) down note
Just wondering, is it possible for a show to make you clinically depressed? And if so, what are the chances I can submit my therapy bills directly to Julian Fellowes for reimbursement? “Downton Abbey” ends a season already defined by loss,...
Tags: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey (tv program), Jane Austen, Julian Fellowes
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2013 State of the Union: Full prepared transcript
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...
Tags: Graduation, Global Change, Theft, State of the Union Address, Finance
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Beyonce's Vogue interview: 10 things about Blue Ivy and more
Beyoncé is stripping down and baring it all in a refreshing way in her March interview with Vogue, in which she gushes about her baby girl Blue Ivy, childbirth, work and being Mrs. Jay-Z. Though the interview for the mag's March issue happened before...
Tags: Beyonce, Destiny's Child (music group), Timbaland, Personal Service, Kelly Rowland
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