Police Kill Man with Down Syndrome Who Refused to Leave Theater
A Maryland mother is distraught after her 26-year-old son died last month following his encounter with three off-duty sheriff’s deputies in a movie theater
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One Million Trapped in Dire Need…
The former head of the UN in Sudan has criticized NGOs for failing to campaign for aid to flow to people trapped in a war zone on the border with South Sudan
In the Midst of Nemo, Some Families Still Lack Heat After Sandy
For more than three months, since Hurricane Sandy flooded the Rockaways with as much as five feet of seawater, destroying the boiler in the basement of his rented two-family home, Lawrence and his family have depended on a small kerosene stove for heat
Street Children in India Scavenge for Food, Income
These moving new pictures show the desperate plight of India’s most vulnerable young children, left to fend for themselves on the streets of the New Delhi
American Pastor is Tortured in Iranian Prison [Video]
Iranian-born American pastor Saeed Abedini is being tortured in an Iranian prison, and is being denied any contact with his family on the outside, according to reports
Women in India Abandoned and Unconscious After Being Sterilized [Video]
Dozens of women were abandoned unconscious in a field after being sterilized at a rural health center in India
Hong Kong’s Poor Living in Cages
For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia’s wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, like Leung Cho-yin, home is a metal cage
Is Press Freedom Disappearing?
Is America the free press’s last stand? It can feel that way when you look around the world. English-speaking countries and Europe have traditionally been relative bastions for independent media in a world where political leaders have little tolerance for dissent
Sandy Hook Father Defends Second Amendment [Video]
Completely ignored by the mainstream media because it didn’t push a pro-gun control agenda, Newtown father Bill Stevens spoke against the political exploitation of the Connecticut elementary school massacre
Child Soldiers Being Used in Mali Conflict [Video]
Malian child soldiers are fighting in the country’s conflict, journalists on the ground have reported. While French troops have boasted of the successful retaking of northern Mali from Islamist fighters, sectarian violence is worsening
You’re More Likely to be Killed by Your Doctor Than a Gun
You are 64 times more likely to be killed by your doctor than by someone else wielding a gun. That’s because 19,766 of the total 31,940 gun deaths in the USA (in the year 2011) were suicides. So the actual number of deaths from other people shooting you is only 12,174
Mainstream Media Ignores Senator’s Sex Scandal
If a doctor suspected of providing free trips and underage Dominican Republic prostitutes to a prominent ranking Democratic senator has his West Palm Beach, Fla. offices raided by the FBI, but it’s not picked up by ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC or CNN
Couple Faces 60 Days in Jail for Rescuing Injured Baby Deer
An Indiana couple saved a wounded baby deer and nursed it back to life, saving its life and giving it a home. They named it “Little Orphan Dani.” When Indiana state officials got word of this courageous act of compassion, they ordered the deer euthanized
Another Gun Sting Operation Botched by ATF
A store calling itself Fearless Distributing opened early last year on an out-of-the-way street in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood, offering designer clothes, athletic shoes, jewelry and drug paraphernalia
Isolated Family Never Knew About WWII
Karp Lykov and his family never even heard of World War II—its beginning or its end. Nothing at all. In fact, they lived in the Siberian taiga without any human contact for four decades
Thousands Homeless After Troops Bulldoze Homes…
Thousands of poor Brazilian families are living in wretched conditions at make-shift refugee camps after being evicted from their homes at gunpoint by federal forces, some of whom were sporting United Nations logos
Homeland Security Seeks to Buy 7,000 Assault Weapons
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to acquire 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO “personal defense weapons” (PDW) — also known as “assault weapons” when owned by civilians
Starving North Koreans Are Eating Their Children
The Sunday Times told how undercover reporters recorded several horror stories from inside the poverty-stricken nation. They included one man who dug up his grandchild’s corpse to eat and another who boiled his child and ate the flesh. Thousands of North Koreans are feared to be starving to death while their chubby leader Kim Jong-Un regularly dines on banquets.
