October 2012
October 25th, 2012
Written by Cain Burdeau - ... in Latest News, Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 20-year-old black woman told police she was set on fire by three men who wrote the initials KKK and a racial slur on her car in northeastern Louisiana.
Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Lt. Julie Lewis says Sharmeka Moffitt was found with burns on more than half of her body when police responded to her 911 call Sunday night.
Moffitt was in critical condition Monday at a...
October 25th, 2012
Written by Geir Moulson - ... in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
BERLIN (AP) — Germany opened a long-awaited memorial October 23, to the hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, or Roma, who were killed by the Nazis in what one survivor called "the forgotten Holocaust" — and pledged to fight the discrimination the minority still faces in Europe today.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck inaugurated the memorial at an official ceremony in Berlin's...
October 24th, 2012
Written by Marlene Caroselli in Focus on Health, Latest News with 0 Comments
According to the World Health Organization, the United States places 17th in the frequency of breast cancer rates, with 21.2 per 100,000 females. Japan has the lowest rates: only 8.6 per 100,000, while Iceland has the highest number: 39.4 per 100,000. With Japan having the lowest rates there is much speculation about the Japanese diet and its effects on health in general and breast cancer in...
October 24th, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Religion's Mighty Rivers, Latest News with 0 Comments
CAIRO (AP) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which monitors anti-Semitic incidents worldwide, has made a strong condemnation of Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, after he attended a sermon where the preacher called for the "destruction and dispersal of the Jews."
A video emailed by the center showed Morsi at a mosque in the Mediterranean town of Marsa Matruh, where the...
October 24th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
President Obama’s electoral victory in 2008 is attributed to not just record numbers of minorities and young voters, but has also been laid at the feet of mostly white Independent voters – the Holy Grail of elections.
But according to Stanford political scientist, Taeku Lee, of the 29 percent of voters who were Independents in 2008 exit polls, only 47 percent of white Independents voted for Obama...