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From Punishment to Healing: Moving Mental-Health Care Home
Jennifer Michaels traces her mental-health problems back to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, when she was 12 years old.
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Senate Approves Anti-Violence Against Women Act
By a robust bipartisan majority, the Senate voted Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act with new assurances that gays and lesbians, immigrants and Native American women will have …
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Obama to Announce 34K Troops to be Home in a Year
President Barack Obama will announce in his State of the Union address that 34,000 U.S. troops will be home from Afghanistan within a year.
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U.S. Ships Military Equipment Out of Afghanistan
The United States began its withdrawal from Afghanistan in earnest, officials said Monday, sending the first of what will be tens of thousands of containers home through a once-blocked land …
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Pope's Mission to Revive Faith Clouded by Scandal
Benedict XVI always cast himself as the reluctant pope, a shy bookworm who preferred solitary walks in the Alps to the public glare and the majesty of Vatican pageantry.
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Senate Poised to Renew Violence Against Women Act
Senators tussled Thursday over whether Indian authorities should be able to prosecute non-Indians in domestic abuse cases.
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EU Leaders Inch Toward Budget Deal at Tough Summit
European Union leaders closed in on a deal that would cut the bloc's budget for the first time in history and deliver a strong message that years of expanding EU …
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NYC, New England Brace for Snowstorms
Snow begins to fall at the start of what's predicted to be a massive, possibly historic blizzard.
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Analysis: Obama, GOP Disagree, Again, on Spending
After two tumultuous years of budget brinkmanship, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress finally agree on something — namely, that a previous 10-year pact to cut $1 trillion across …
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Tackling Human Trafficking in Mississippi
Trafficking of human beings--for sex or for labor--affects everyday people we all might encounter.
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Wendy Bradford
Up to 300,000 children are at risk for sexual exploitation each year in this country according to the Polaris Project, an organization located in Washington, D.C., that fights global trafficking.
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Obama Seeks to Avoid Sequester with Short-Term Fix
President Barack Obama will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board …
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Taliban Peace Talks Flounder as Troops Draw Down
The Afghan peace effort is floundering, fraught with mistrust and confusion among key players even though the hard-line Taliban militants show signs of softening and their reclusive, one-eyed leader made …
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Hagel Emerges with Solid Dem Support for Pentagon
Bruised and battered, Chuck Hagel emerged from his grueling confirmation hearing with solid Democratic support for his nomination to be President Barack Obama's next defense secretary and relentless opposition from …
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Diplomats: Iran Prepared to Up Nuclear Program
The U.N. nuclear agency has told member nations that Iran is poised for a major technological upgrade of its uranium enrichment program, in a document seen Thursday by The Associated …
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You Can't Teach an Alpha Dog New Tricks
When [Richard Dawkins] said that religious instruction is more harmful than "mild" child sexual abuse and was called out on it, he couldn't backtrack.
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GOP Lawmakers See Automatic Cuts as Leverage
Driven by frustration over deficits and debt, Republican conservatives are pushing a politically risky move to permit painfully large automatic spending cuts to strike the Pentagon and domestic programs alike …
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US Economy Shrinks 0.1 Pct., 1st Time in 3½ Years
The U.S. economy unexpectedly shrank from October through December for the first time since 2009.
