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  May 23, 2014

  Media 'Railed Against Me for Giving Them the Truth About Their Sins,' Says Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson

  Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, who became a target of gay rights advocates and triggered a national firestorm last fall for calling homosexuality a sin, defended his comments in a recent sermon in which he said people only got mad because he told them the truth.

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  May 23, 2014

  Death Sentence for Pregnant Christian Woman in Sudan Appealed; US Congress Calls for Her Release

  A pregnant Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for apostasy this month after she refused to renounce her Christian faith got some help from a local lawyer Thursday who filed an appeal of the controversial verdict which has attracted international rebuke.

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  May 23, 2014

  74-Y-O Man Sentenced to 60 Days in Prison for Killing 13-Y-O Daughter With Slap Over Chores

  A 74-year-old Canadian man who pleaded guilty to unintentionally killing his 13-year-old daughter with a slap over her chores in 2010 was sentenced to a 60-day jail term Wednesday.

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  May 22, 2014

  Doctors Told Woman She Was Too Young to Have Cancer; Now She Finds Out They Were Wrong and She May Have Only 8 Weeks to Live

  About 12 years ago when Julia Wolf was 18, she complained to several doctors that a birthmark on her ankle had raised and started to itch. It might be skin cancer, she told them but she was told to apply some moisturizer. Now 30 and a mother, Wolf is dying from cancer and may have just eight weeks to live.

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  May 22, 2014

  Residents Say Police Beat Washington Man Until He Was Dead as He Cried Out for Help

  Neighbors and family of Ron Hillstrom, 44, of University Place, Washington, are now pleading for justice after witnesses who captured the incident on video say local police beat him as he cried out for help until he was dead.

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  May 22, 2014

  Benham Brothers Testify How God Helped Them to Start Company After They Got Fired; Confident Good Will Come From HGTV Firing

  Popular Christian twin brothers and real estate experts, David and Jason Benham, are confident that good will come from HGTV's dropping of their reality show in the same way he used a firing in the past to help them start their successful real estate business.

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  May 21, 2014

  Actor Terry Crews and Audience Cheer Ben Carson's Take on Welfare on 'The View;' 'It 'Doesn't Provide a Way Out of Poverty'

  Retired neurosurgeon and conservative darling Ben Carson scored big points with the audience and actor Terry Crews in an appearance on ABC's "The View" Tuesday when he argued that welfare "doesn't provide a way out of poverty."

• May 21, 2014

  Prince Charles Sparks Controversy for Saying 'Putin Is Behaving Just Like Hitler' in Ukraine Invasion

  Britain's Prince Charles set off a firestorm of criticism during a recent visit to the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when he compared Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine with Adolf Hitler's takeover of Czechoslovakia and Poland.

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  May 21, 2014

  Top Medical Professor Brendan Bain Fired for Testifying That Men Sleeping With Men Is a Danger to Public Health; Protest Erupts

  Professor Brendan Bain, one of the Caribbean's pioneers in clinical infectious disease practice and a leading medical authority on the HIV epidemic in the region, was fired by the University of the West Indies this week for testifying that men sleeping with men is a danger to individual and public health.

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  May 20, 2014

  Michelle Obama Urges Students to Police Relatives for Racial Insensitivity; Says Segregation Still a Problem in Schools

  Sixty years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America's schools, segregation in America's classrooms remains as problematic as it was when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his final speech, says First Lady Michelle Obama.