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Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager - Seattle Times: Top stories

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

When 15-year-old Nichole Cable left home May 12, she told her family she was heading out to see someone she'd met on Facebook.

Op-Ed Contributor: China’s Brutal One-Child Policy - International Herald Tribune Asia Pacific

By MA JIAN — Tue, 21 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Op-Ed Contributor: China’s Brutal One-Child Policy

AP PHOTOS: Devastation, reunion in tornado wake - Yahoo: US National

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Residents sift through the remnants of their homes and parents embrace children outside a demolished elementary school. Emergency workers tend to the wounded. ...

Fire chief says search almost complete in Oklahoma - Yahoo: US National

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday. ...

Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager - Yahoo: US National

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Police charged a 20-year-old Maine man with murder Tuesday in the death of a 15-year-old girl who was last seen more than a week ago, when she went to meet someone she met on Facebook.

Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager - Boston Globe: Maine

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager

How to provoke race hatred: On the Roma, Sun TV and the responsibility of broadcasters - rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

karl nerenberg — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

The documentary that bears the lurid title 'Gypsy Child Thieves' was written and directed by Liviu Tipurita and released in 2009. From its title you would think it was a piece of extreme right, racist propaganda. The filmmaker did not have racist intentions, however. To give him his due, Tipurita intended to give a fair account of the lives of Romanian Roma (or Gypsy) children who are exploited as thieves and beggars in such cities as Milan and Madrid. In his mind, he cared about these children, even as he showed them harassing people at bank machines and lifting wallets from the pockets of commuters and tourists. Whatever Tipurita's intentions, however, they seem to have been lost on many viewers. read ...

Headlines for May 21, 2013 - Democracy Now!

mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Dozens Dead in Oklahoma Tornado, Guatemalan Court Overturns Genocide Verdict for Ex-Dictator Ríos Montt, Foreclosed Homeowners Arrested at Justice Department Protest for Bank Prosecutions, Report: Banks Lagging on Settlement Payments for Mortgage Wrongdoing, Report: CIA to Transfer Drone Program to Pentagon, White House Defends Tracking of Fox News Reporter, Obama Hosts Burmese Leader at White House, Survey: Scientists Have 97% Consensus Human Activity Causes Climate Change, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Begins at U.N., Poverty in U.S. Suburbs Exceeds Urban Areas, Senate Report Says Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes, Protest Against School Closings Leads to Arrests at Chicago City Hall, Landmark "Stop and Frisk" Trial Concludes in NYC, Hundreds Honor Gay New Yorker Shot Dead in Apparent Hate Crime

Afghan Voices Tell the Tales of Human Lives Cut Short by US War - Commondreams.org Views

jon — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Kathy Kelly

KABUL—Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “The Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces. Even with details culled from news reports, these data can't help but merge into one large statistic, something about terrible pain that's worth caring about but that is happening very far away.

Pueblo mob attacks resident thought to be child predator - Durango Herald

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

DENVER x2013 Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults of children took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face in Pueblo, authorities said Monday.Pueblo police later released the man because of lack of evidence,...

Gunmen attack polio workers in Pakistani tribal belt - Seattle Times: Nation & World

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Gunman attacked health workers trying to vaccinate children against polio in the tribal belt, which is the major center of new infections in Pakistan, one of just three where the disease remains endemic.

Angry mob pelts man thought to be sex attacker - Yahoo: US National

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults of children took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face in Colorado, authorities said Monday.

Pope Francis Puts The Poor Front And Center - NPR News

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Shunning the formalities of his office and focusing on poverty, Pope Francis is drawing a sharp contrast between his 2-month-old papacy and those of his predecessors.

Retired Anglican priest jailed for sex abuse - World

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A retired Church of England priest was jailed for 10 years Monday after a jury found him guilty of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the 1960s and 1970s.

Retired Anglican priest jailed for sex abuse - Boston Globe: Latest

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Retired Anglican priest jailed for sex abuse

Retired Anglican priest convicted of sex abuse - World

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A retired Anglican priest has been convicted of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the 1960s and 1970s.

Retired Anglican priest convicted of 36 sex offenses against children in 1960s and 70s - Star Tribune: World

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Retired Anglican priest convicted of sex abuse - Seattle Times: Top stories

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

A retired Anglican priest has been convicted of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the 1960s and 1970s.

Retired Anglican priest convicted of sex abuse - Seattle Times: Nation & World

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

A retired Anglican priest has been convicted of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the 1960s and 1970s.

Retired Anglican priest convicted of sex abuse - Boston Globe: Latest

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Retired Anglican priest convicted of sex abuse

NY man faces child abuse charges in Mass. - Boston Globe: Latest

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

NY man faces child abuse charges in Mass.

Rioting youths set fires, attack police, in Stockholm suburb, angered over police shooting - Star Tribune: World

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Opinionator | The Stone: Savile, Beauvoir and the Lolita Syndrome - NY Times: Editorials

By ANDY MARTIN — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Opinionator | The Stone: Savile, Beauvoir and the Lolita Syndrome

Guest: Building a community to close the education achievement gap - Seattle Times: Opinion

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Despite the hard work of thousands of well-meaning adults, children in poverty-impacted schools are still most likely to get lost within the system, according to guest columnists Tom Stritikus and Elham Kazemi.

Philadelphia teen dies in ATV accident - Philly.com News

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

A 13-year-old died Saturday morning when he was thrown from his all-terrain vehicle, police said, after losing control of it as he drove on a street in Southwest Philadelphia.