Leonardo Blair

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  Jul 23, 2014

  Stephen King Criticizes Christian, Tea Party Reaction to Border Crisis on Twitter and Gets Owned by Conservatives

  Popular contemporary horror writer Stephen King got himself into a bit of hot water Tuesday when he criticized the Tea Party and Christians for not being charitable toward the illegal immigrant children at the border. Conservatives working to help the children volleyed right back, asking him what he was doing.

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  Jul 23, 2014

  'You Are Lucky That I Love My God;' Florida Father Who Battered Man He Caught Sexually Abusing Son Said Son Saved Abuser's Life

  A Florida father who battered an 18-year-old man after walking in on him sexually abusing his 11-year-old son in his own house said he almost killed the man but it was his son who stopped him.

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  Jul 23, 2014

  Teenage Missionary Charged With Raping Children at African Orphanage; Lawyer Says He Was Victim of 'Psychological Voodoo'

  A teenage missionary from Edmond, Oklahoma, said to be struggling with pornography and homosexuality, is now facing life in prison after he allegedly raped underage girls and forced young boys to perform oral sex on him at a Kenyan orphanage while other children watched. His lawyer charges, however, that he was the victim of "psychological voodoo."

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  Jul 22, 2014

  16-Foot-Long Anaconda With Head the Size of a Human Hand on the Loose in New Jersey's Lake Hopatcong and People Are Scared

  Panic has gripped Jefferson County, New Jersey, after a deadly green anaconda reportedly about 15 to 16 feet long was spotted roaming about Lake Hopatcong several times in recent weeks.

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  Jul 22, 2014

  Professor Claims University of Wisconsin-Madison to Start Giving Race-Based Grades, But School Says It's a Misunderstanding

  University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Emeritus W. Lee Hansen has openly criticized a new diversity policy at the school which he claims recommends assigning race-based grades to students in its push to make the university more diverse.

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  Jul 22, 2014

  Christians Not Healthy Enough to Flee Mosul After Death Threat Renounce Faith for Islam 'Just to Stay Alive'

  At least five Christian families who were not healthy enough to flee Mosul, Iraq after the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ordered them to convert to Islam or be executed, have renounced their faith for Islam, according to a local government minister.

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  Jul 21, 2014

  ISIS Torches 1,800-Year-Old Church in Mosul; Priest Says City Is 'Now Empty of Christians'

  Members of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) reportedly torched a 1,800 year-old Catholic Church in Mosul, Iraq and have effectively left that city "empty of Christians" as believers fled the area in fear of their lives, according to Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako.

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  Jul 21, 2014

  Cigarette Maker RJ Reynolds Ordered to Pay Wife of 36-Y-O Cancer Victim $23.6 Billion; Company Vows to Fight Verdict

  The widow of a 36-year-old chain smoker who died of lung cancer 18 years ago was awarded record punitive damages of more than $23 billion by a Florida jury in a lawsuit against cigarette-making giant the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company last Friday, but the company has vowed to fight it.

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  Jul 21, 2014

  Grieving Mother Begs Putin to 'Send My Children Home' as Pro-Russian Rebels Take 200 Bodies From Flight MH17 Crash Site

  A grief-stricken Dutch mother whose son and his girlfriend were among the 298 victims who died after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down from the sky in eastern Ukraine last Thursday, became the face of Netherland's grief Sunday when she publicly pleaded with Russian President Vladimir Putin to "send my children home".

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  Jul 21, 2014

  1 American, 192 Dutch, 44 Malaysian, 27 Australian; Read the Complete List of the 298 Killed on Flight MH17

  Malaysia Airlines released its complete passenger manifest from the doomed Flight MH17 Saturday identifying the 298 people from 11 countries who were on board when it exploded and crashed after it was shot down from the air in eastern Ukraine last Thursday.