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Dr. Michael Newdow is at it again. The California physician and atheist whose first successful challenge against the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance was vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court, has filed a new lawsuit to achieve the same end. He called the high court's intervention a "vile abrogation of my civil rights." Continuing his eight-year battle, Dr. Newdow argues that, "No one should be made to feel like an outsider because of their religious beliefs." He may not realize it, but that's an argument those with religious beliefs would salute. Atheists don't profess religious beliefs. He...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A steel beam in the symmetrical shape of a cross — a remnant from the World Trade Center wreckage — has drawn criticism from an atheist group, which objects to the artifact being kept at ground zero as a religious emblem. The trade center site is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the bistate governmental agency that also operates the region's three major airports and bridges and tunnels connecting the two states. "Many people who died on September 11 weren't Christian. There were Jews, Muslims, and atheists who died," Ellen Johnson,...