Two of the world’s longest-surviving octuplets came home from the hospital Tuesday night, greeted by a crush of photographers, neighbors and curious onlookers gathered on a cul-de-sac where the mother will raise her 14 children.
Nadya Suleman was sitting with her babies in the back seat of a sport utility vehicle that waded through the crowd and went straight into the garage of her new four-bedroom, three-bath home in La Habra, about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
03/18/2009
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Tags: home, octuplets, Suleman
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The Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that then-President George W. Bush had refused to sign, The Associated Press has learned.
U.S. officials said Tuesday they had notified the declaration’s French sponsors that the administration wants to be added as a supporter. The Bush administration was criticized in December when it was the only western government that refused to sign on.
03/18/2009
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Tags: declaration, homosexuality, Obama
His stimulus package adds $200 million to a fund that supports new teacher compensation systems.
In a major speech on education last week, President Obama echoed a call he’d made many times on the campaign trail: Reward excellent teaching with extra pay.
03/17/2009
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Tags: education, Obama
The United States Congress is considering, in effect, denying workers the right to a secret ballot in union certification voting under the so-called Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).
This legislation reveals real disdain and disrespect for individual workers.
If freedom means anything, it means being able to decide for yourself.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Business, Society
Tags: Congress, EFCA, employee
Fugitive radical turned Minnesota soccer mom Sara Jane Olson was released on Tuesday from a California prison, where she served nearly seven years for a pair of crimes committed with the radical Symbionese Liberation Army in the 1970s.
03/17/2009
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Tags: Olson, prison, SLA
President Barack Obama nominated David Hamilton, an Indiana federal district judge with bipartisan support, for a U.S. appeals court seat in the new administration’s first judicial appointment.
Hamilton, 51, a former aide to then-Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana, is a 15-year veteran of the federal trial court in Indianapolis. He has backing from Bayh, now a Democratic U.S. senator, and Richard Lugar, Indiana’s Republican senator, the White House said. If confirmed by the Senate, Hamilton would serve on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
03/17/2009
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Tags: Hamilton, judge, Obama
St. Patrick’s Day revelers took a break from worries about the global economy to enjoy a day of shamrock-themed frivolity, dyeing city fountains green, taking icy ocean plunges and crowding sidewalks along parade routes to see and be seen.
03/17/2009
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Tags: Ireland, NY, participants
A controversial Kentucky museum that trumpets the Bible story of creation and rejects evolution is making room for an odd guest: Charles Darwin.
A new exhibit at the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum argues that natural selection — Darwin’s explanation for how species develop new traits over time — can coexist with the creationist assertion that all living things were created by God just a few thousand years ago.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Society
Tags: Creationist museum, Darwin, exhibit
