Posts Tagged Social issues

Friday, May 24, 2013

Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys as Scouts, but controversy likely to persist

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Text of President Obama speech on terrorism

Text of President Barack Obama’s speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House:

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Why worry? Less aid by Fed would point to recovery

In this  Wednesday, May 22, 2013, file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke listens as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a Senate Joint Economic Committee hearing on "The Economic Outlook" .  Investors have grown nervous that the Federal Reserve will scale back its efforts to boost the U.S. economy sooner than many expected. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Investors have grown nervous that the Federal Reserve will scale back its efforts to boost the U.S. economy sooner than many expected.

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Birth control coverage up for federal appeal

Customers are seen at a Hobby Lobby store in Denver on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.  A challenge to the federal health care law faces its most prominent test yet in a full 10th Circuit hearing in Denver on Thursday. Hobby Lobby stores is challenging a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morining-after birth control pill.  The Oklahoma based arts and crafts chain says the mandate violates the religious beliefs of its owners.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

DENVER (AP) — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

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Ex-PSU player takes battle vs. bullying to book

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A former Penn State women’s basketball player has written a new book to champion the anti-bullying efforts she supported during her playing days in Happy Valley.

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