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If there’s anything good about ringless voicemails, it’s the fact that they bring people together. These voicemails that simply appear on your phone seem to invite universal hatred. Indeed, the FCC has gotten almost 2,800 complaints about ringless voicemails in June alone. Among the complaints: lost business due to spam clogging the mailbox, added data costs from checking messages, mailboxes flooded to capacity unable to receive messages from family.

A national religious group representing 36 Protestant and Orthodox denominations said Tuesday that U.S. foreign policy is "dangerous" and urged President Bush to turn over authority in Iraq to the United Nations. The National Council of Churches (search), which has been highly critical of the war, acknowledged that Christians disagree on the issue, but said that giving control to the U.N. was the only way to create "lasting peace."

In reaction to Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, a public interest law firm, which represented the rights of minors before the high court, expressed disappointment that the court upheld the ban on advocacy advertising. The Supreme Court ruled that a ban prohibiting minors under the age of 18 from making monetary contributions to political campaigns of their choice was unconstitutional. The court also ruled constitutional a ban on advocacy advertising. "The unanimous decision to uphold the constitutional rights of young people to participate in a key area of the electoral process represents an enormously important...