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Russia Bans Child Adoptions by Americans
Channel 2 NewsUpdate: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill to ban Americans from adopting Russian children less than 24 hours after receiving the bill from the Russian Parliament. The ban is in retaliation for a new law in the U.S. that imposes...Tags: Vladimir Putin, Russia, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Social Issues
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WATCH: Prop 5 Campaigns Debate Face-to-Face For The First Time
Channel 2 NewsThe Proposition 5 debate over what's known as the Equal Rights Initiative has certainly been heated. But for all the back-and-forth between the Yes on 5 campaign, One Anchorage, and the No on 5 campaign, Protect Your Rights, representatives from the...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ethics, Justice System, Elections, Social Services
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Amnesty International: United States Ranks Fifth on Global Execution Scale
Channel 2 NewsAmnesty International says the United States remains near the top of the global list of nations carrying out executions and was the only Western democracy to use the practice last year. The rights group's annual review of worldwide death penalty...Tags: Punishment, Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia, Politics, Death Penalty
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Alaska Joins Several States In Cigarette Label Lawsuit
Channel 2 NewsSeveral states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the...Tags: Respiratory Disease, Justice System, Laws, Lungs and Airways, Court Administration
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Alaska Permanent Fund Iran Investments Targeted by Bills
The Alaska Permanent Fund would have to restrict its investment in companies that do business with Iran, if bills introduced by a group of Republicans and Democrats in the state Legislature become law.
Anchorage Democratic Sen. Bill Wielechowski tells...Tags: Democratic Party, Iran, Politics, Republican Party, Mike Burns
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Valley Dairy CFO Accused of Religious Discrimination
Channel 2 NewsMatanuska Creamery is facing allegations of religious discrimination. The dairy's former office administrator filed an accusation with the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights. Merlyn Kay Schaugaard accuses Matanuska Creamery's Chief Financial...Tags: Discrimination, Mormonism, Politics, Social Issues, Minority Groups
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GOP overplays its hand
WASHINGTON — At the end of a truly dismal week in his presidency, President Obama remains lucky in one crucial category: his opposition. It has been only a matter of days since two scandals — the IRS harassment of conservative groups and the...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Rand Paul, Elections, Fox News Channel (tv network), Taxation
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Cause for hope -- and fear -- in Pakistan
There is reason for hope in Nawaz Sharif's victory in the recent Pakistani elections. Sharif, who has twice served as Pakistan's prime minister, has said he wants to build a more robust democracy, revive the country's shattered economy and end the...
Tags: Philosophy, Taliban, Crime, Law and Justice, Religious Conflicts, Justice and Rights
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Law in Jim Thorpe dispute aims to prevent Native American plunder
It was a sweat lodge ceremony in Texas where Jim Thorpe reached out to his grandson through a medicine man. The shaman told John Thorpe his grandfather's spirit was content in the Pennsylvania town where his body has lain for six decades. "Grandpa...
Tags: Museums, National Parks, Human Interest, Laws, Justice System
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Pope decries more concern over banks than people; leads Vatican rally, meets with Merkel
Associated PressVATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church's moral conscience,...Tags: Pakistan, Angela Merkel, Ethics, Financial Markets, Elections
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House fires draw repair offers, even before smoke clears
Maria Elena Palacio was worrying her trapped pit bull wouldn't make it out alive from the blaze. This was when the businessmen began approaching her with sales pitches. "It got really crazy. The firefighters had to tell them to leave me alone," the...
Tags: Lauderhill, Fires, Oviedo, Dania Beach, Politics
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In a border town, a newspaper forced to be silent
LAREDO, Texas -- A recent wave of kidnappings in Nuevo Laredo was prominently featured in a recent Sunday edition of El Maņana, one of the largest and most long-standing Spanish-language newspapers on the border. But the story carried no byline, and...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Kidnapping, Freedom of the Press, Mexico, Crime, Law and Justice
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