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Children denied breakfast for wearing ‘wrong’ shoes to school!

CHICAGO, Illinois - May 9, 2011 - Chicago Public Schools is apologizing to a mother and her two young sons, ages 5 and 6, after they were denied breakfast because they came to school wearing the wrong kind of shoes.

The Nicholson brothers only grab a quick snack before heading to class because they qualify for a full free breakfast at Adam Powell Grade School. It’s something they l

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Air Force Academy opens outdoor chapel for Wiccans and Druids!

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - May 5, 2011 - The face of the military is changing. What used to be seen as a bastion for evangelical Christianity is now expanding its lists of faiths to include Wiccans and Druids.

At the Air Force Academy in Colorado, a prayer circle and veritable Stonehenge on the Rockies will now serve as a place of worship for the academy's neo-Pagans.

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More than 1,300 guns bought illegally under ATF's Gunrunner program!

WASHINGTON - May 4, 2011 - It is the closest thing to a smoking gun congressional investigators have in their probe of Project Gunrunner - a program that was intended to stop the flow of guns to criminals in Mexico but allowed those guns to be smuggled to Mexico instead.

An internal memo from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shows that U.S. officials allowed cr

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Verizon to put data collection warning stickers on new phones!

WASHINGTON - May 3, 2011 - Verizon Wireless announced it will begin putting stickers on its products to warn customers that the phone tracks its owner's geographical location.

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Governments develop digital censorship tools for reporters!

NEW YORK - May 3, 2011 - Governments worldwide are developing new tools to censor reporters as the media increasingly moves online, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday.

In a report released on the eve of World Press Freedom Day on Tuesday, the committee said 69 journalists whose work appears mostly online were jailed as of Dec. 1, representing almost half of all reporter

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FBI using surveillance software to track suspects online!

WASHINGTON - May 2, 2011 - Documents recently obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveal detailed information about the FBI's electronic surveillance capabilities. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed the FOIA request in 2007 after it was reported that the agency was using "secret spyware."

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Popular backlash at murder of Gaddafi's son!

TRIPOLI, Libya - May 2, 2011 - Angry crowds went on the rampage in Tripoli yesterday, burning foreign embassies and forcing the UN to evacuate its foreign staff after a NATO bombing that the regime claimed left four members of Moammar Qaddafi's family dead.

The fallout from the air attack forced NATO onto the defensive and prompted its leaders and David Cameron to claim that the atta