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Police Killings Rise Slightly, Though Increased Focus May Suggest Otherwise By MICHAEL WINES and SARAH COHENAPRIL 30, 2015 Their names have become both a litany and rallying cry: Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. Eric Garner. Walter L. Scott. And now Freddie...

A French Muslim girl was kicked out of class because her skirt was too long According to French media reports, a 15-year-old French Muslim girl was banned from her class twice for wearing a skirt that was too long, and therefore supposedly a conspicuous display of religion. France's state...

Harley Lawrence's murderers sentenced to life in prison Daniel Wayne Surette, Kyle David James Fredericks pleaded guilty after dousing homeless man with gas CBC News Posted: Apr 28, 2015 6:00 AM...

Mapping Canada’s Mosaic of Immigrant Communities Canada’s multicultural mosaic has produced a dazzling array of immigrant enclaves throughout the country. You’ve certainly heard of Vancouver’s Chinatown, guarded by the towering Millenium Gate on Pender Street and home to Canada’s largest...

George Washington University’s Swastika Problem When tyranny arrives on these shores, it isn’t going to start off looking like something out of George Orwell — it’s going to look a lot like college, which is why the sort of people who twice made Barack Obama president of these United States...

Chimpanzees Take a Huge Step Toward (Some) Human Rights According to a New York judge, two chimpanzees now have a right that until Monday was reserved for humans. The chimps, used in research at Stony Brook University, may never actually be released, but the court’s move represents a...

We Can’t Let John Deere Destroy the Very Idea of Ownership It’s official: John Deere and General Motors want to eviscerate the notion of ownership. Sure, we pay for their vehicles. But we don’t own them. Not according to their corporate lawyers, anyway. In a particularly spectacular...

A Mini Donut Factory For the low price of $150, you can create up to 30 piping hot donuts per batch in about 90 seconds (in theory.) The dough dispenser creates the perfect size donut and mini spatulas turn and deliver them down the chute into the basket (or your mouth). We won’t judge...

Scientists Claim They Found a New Species of Frog, and It Looks Like Kermit Olivia B. Waxman @OBWax April 20, 2015 Found in Costa Rica's Talamanca Mountains Photos of a “newly discovered and described”...

‘Free-range’ family again at center of debate after police pick up children Danielle Meitiv and her daughter, Dvora, 6, walk home from school in Silver Spring on Jan. 16. (Sammy Dallal for The Washington Post) A familiar debate over how much freedom parents should give their children...

Tara Hills, Ottawa mom, changes anti-vaccination stand, but 7 kids still get sick Woman who 'defected' from anti-vaccination camp says 7 kids on antibiotics for whooping cough CBC News...

New York judge rules woman can serve divorce papers via Facebook message Manhattan supreme court judge issues ruling that allows woman to file for divorce from her hard-to-find husband via the social network Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku will be served with the divorce summons via a private...

Students participate in ‘active shooter’ drill at Pajaro Valley High School Students at Pajaro Valley High School took part in an active shooter safety drill Tuesday morning. (Stephen Baxter -- Santa Cruz Sentinel)...

Journalist receives jail sentence for 'liking Erdoğan insult' GAZİANTEP - Doğan News Agency A journalist from a local daily in southeastern Turkey has received a suspended prison sentence for "liking" a remark criticising President Recep Tayyip...

AZ lawmakers urge DHS, ICE not to release illegal immigrant with TB Posted: Apr 03, 2015 6:10 PM EDT Updated: Apr 03, 2015 7:19 PM EDT By Breann Bierman FLORENCE, AZ (KPHO/KTVK) - Arizona lawmakers are calling on federal officials to keep an illegal immigrant with...

Longtime Couple Found That Clothes Didn't Make The Man Sissy Goodwin teaches power plant technology at Casper College in Wyoming. The 68-year-old Vietnam veteran dresses in women's clothing, wears bows in his hair, likes his skirts exactly 17 inches short, and prefers his toolboxes in...

LOS ANGELES— Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced that Kevin Christopher Bollaert, the operator of a cyber-exploitation website which posted nude photos of individuals with personal identifying information without their consent, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. This case is...

Indiana Nurse Charged With Felony 'Resisting Arrest' for Driving to Safer Area for Traffic Stop DelRea Good said she felt afraid to stop in a dark and isolated place, and that's not unwarranted. Elizabeth Nolan Brown|Apr. 3, 2015 12:10 pm...

Whole Foods in Ottawa to defy holiday shopping law Lansdowne Park grocery store Whole Foods says it plans to stay open throughout the Easter weekend, despite a provincial law requiring most businesses to be closed on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. - Related: What's open and closed on...

Human trials show promising results for made-in-Canada Ebola vaccine A vial of the Canadian-made Ebola vaccine VSV-ZEBOV, is pictured in a recent photo. A Swiss trial of a Canadian-made Ebola vaccine has resumed after being suspended because of concerns about an unexpected side-effect...