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URUMQI, China — Mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of the capital of China's Xinjiang region Tuesday. The government imposed a curfew as it tried to stem communal violence after a riot that killed at least 156 people. Members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic group attacked people near the Urumqi's railway station, and women in headscarves protested the arrests of husbands and sons in another part of the city. Meanwhile, for much of the afternoon, a mob of 1,000 mostly young Han Chinese holding clubs and...

<p>The Alaska governor spoke in taped interviews on ABC, NBC, and CNN broadcast Tuesday morning. She told CNN that "all options are on the table" for her future.</p> <p>But she told ABC's Good Morning America that she recognizes she might not have political staying power after her surprise resignation Friday, which came just as she had been expected to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 GOP presidential run. "I said before...'You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it,'" she said.</p>

CHICAGO, July 6 (UPI) -- Illinois prosecutors say they're seeking the death penalty for a Chicago man who allegedly beat his landlord to death with garden tools. Cook County, Ill., officials said Sunday Martin Vega, 27, is eligible for the death penalty for allegedly killing landlord William Hallin, 67, using the garden tools, an ice scraper, a BB gun and a pipe before setting the body on fire, The Chicago Tribune reported. Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil has denied bail for Vega, the newspaper said. Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Emily Stevens alleged Vega killed Hallin Friday when the landlord came...

Less than month after U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said that the UN Security Council was working on a resolution “with teeth that will bite in North Korea,” the Kim regime tested a battery of proscribed short- and medium-range missiles. So much for the teeth.How did the Security Council respond this time? It “condemned” the action, naturally. But, of course, the real concern of the “international community” isn’t the nuclear braggadocio of a rogue regime; it’s the mortal fear that another country might attempt to inhibit the mad brinkmanship of Kim Jong Il:

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2009 Statement from the President on Health Care Reform "I am pleased by the progress we're making on health care reform and still believe, as I've said before, that one of the best ways to bring down costs, provide more choices, and assure quality is a public option that will force the insurance companies to compete and keep them honest. I look forward to a final product that achieves these very important goals." ###

Nevada Power was well known to engage in misleading propaganda about their business and finances. Now that they’ve become NV Energy, nothing has changed. The lies have actually expanded somewhat to be included in their new advertising campaign. Watch this video and tell me what you see written in fine print at the bottom.

Examiner Columnist | 7/6/09 10:44 PM News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher. President Barack Obama returns from Russia this week with a verbal commitment in hand from President Dmitry Medvedev to slash stockpiles of nuclear weapons as a preemptive strike against one of the top five potential causes of man-made global warming -- unrestrained atomic fission. "Our conflicting notions of national security made previous nuclear arms reductions difficult," said Mr. Obama, standing next to his Russian counterpart at a news conference, "but our shared concern over the threat of global warming has brought us together this week. Dmitry and...

MOSCOW -- President Obama acknowledged Tuesday that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin still casts a long shadow in his country, but dismissed suggestions that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is little more than a Putin prop. "I think that President Medvedev is my counterpart, the president of Russia," Obama said in an interview with FOX News Tuesday. "The prime minister, who I just met today, obviously still has enormous influence." The U.S. president said that Medvedev and Putin are on the same page about Russian affairs, even if some think Putin is the master puppeteer controlling the president. "Interestingly, nothing Putin...

Note: The following text is a quote: Smart Online CEO and Two Others Found Guilty of Manipulation of Company Stock LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DENNIS MICHAEL NOURI, the former Chief Executive Officer ("CEO") and President of Smart Online, REZA ERIC NOURI, a former Smart Online employee and brother of the CEO, and stock broker ANTHONY MARTIN were found guilty today, after a three-week jury trial before United States District Judge DENNY CHIN. According to the Superseding Indictment and the evidence at trial: From May 2005 through July...

SEATTLE - A man was brutally kicked and beaten late Saturday near Lake Union after he asked a group of men to watch their language and then displayed a handgun to them. Police were called to the scene, a boat moorage dock in the 1800 block of Westlake Avenue North, at about 10:20 p.m. Investigators learned that an argument had broken out earlier after the man asked the group to to stop using foul language and to keep down the noise, as it was a family type of place. When the group of suspects became aggressive, the man showed them...

KANDAHAR: Afghanistan’s Taliban said Monday they launched a guerrilla operation to thwart a major assault by US Marines on their Helmand strongholds. Operation Foladi Jal, Pashtu for “iron net”, would teach the Marines “a lesson”. Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP. “In response to Operation Khanjar by the invading forces, we have launched Operation Foladi Jal,” Ahmadi said. “Their Khanjar will get stuck in our Foladi Jal,”. “In this operation we’ll teach them a lesson so they will never again dare to come into our areas,” he said.The operation would include improvised bomb explosions and “hit-and-run guerrilla attacks”, Ahmadi said....

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said Tuesday that while he does not know what the future holds for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who is resigning at the end of the month, he would love to see Palin become more engaged in national politics. “I’m very excited about the opportunity to have Sarah Palin freed up now to engage across the country to help, you know, reorient the party and grow it,” Steele said during an interview on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.” “She said she now wants to be able to contribute in a different way, and as RNC...

Here is video of Sen. James Inhoufe talking about his plans to question EPA officials today about an EPA report done by a longtime employee which calls into question the entire basis for Global Warming hysteria. The report was suppressed by the EPA, becoming public knowledge only after the House of Representatives had already passed the Cap and Trade bill based on the assumption that the world is in peril because of Global Warming. The suppressed report finds no basis for believing the earth is warming. In fact it says it has indeed been cooling. Inhoufe is calling for an...

Search engine giant Google is apparently disallowing advertisements for abortion businesses in several nations, some of which prohibit abortions and some of which don't. The rational behind the Google decision remained unclear, which abortion advocates are blasting, LifeNews reports. Pro-abortion activist Lori Adelman corresponded with a staff member at Google who confirmed the denial of abortion advertising.

Obama Admin Ignored Majority Who Opposed Embryonic Rules Washington, DC -- The National Institutes of Health is drawing condemnation today from pro-life advocates who say it ignored the majority of Americans who opposed the proposed guidelines that would implement President Barack Obama's decision to force taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research. See http://www.LifeNews.com/bio2885.html

HARTFORD -- Advocates for children who say they were sexually abused by priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport reacted with cautious optimism Monday to the state Supreme Court's refusal to reconsider its earlier ruling ordering the diocese to release hundreds of documents detailing decades of alleged abuse by priests. The Supreme Court issued the brief decision without comment. "We are inching closer to Connecticut citizens and Catholics fully learning the truth," said David Clohessy, director of the Chicago-based SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

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Question: I was wondering how we as Protestants reject the doctrine of Apostolic Succession? Obviously, through Church history, this doctrine seems to be strongly affirmed, but when the Reformation took place, this doctrine was not continued along with other doctrines. Why not? I guess I am wondering what are the biblical mandates supporting Apostolic Succession and what are the biblical mandates and logic that reject Apostolic Succession? Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.Answer: When you say "through Church history, this doctrine [apostolic succession] seems to be strongly affirmed" you are correct because it certainly has been accepted...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called on Tuesday for a "world political authority" to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat. The pope made his call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run in a new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and poor nations. Parts of the encyclical, titled "Charity in Truth," seemed bound to upset free marketeers because...

Iranian Judiciary Authority head Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi has ordered the establishment of special courts for sentencing defendants accused of collaborating with anti-regime satellite broadcasts and websites.