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Washington, DC -- A new television commercial from Planned Parenthood blasting John McCain and Sarah Palin is already coming under criticism from the mainstream media. The St. Petersburg Times, a Florida newspaper, says the ad distorts the record on he two candidates and their record on women. The ad attacks Senator McCain, claiming he "voted to let governments charge rape victims." The paper explains that McCain supported the original bill including the Violence Against Women Act -- "So that alone is a significant contradiction of Planned Parenthood's claim." McCain has also supported the VAWA on reauthorization votes and even introduced...

China newspaper ad salutes Tiananmen mothers By Lindsay Beck Mon Jun 4, 12:04 PM ET An advertisement saluting mothers of students and workers killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown appeared in a newspaper in southwest China on Monday, two witnesses said, in a rare public criticism of the massacre. The advertisement, in the lower right corner of page 14 of the Chengdu Evening News, read: "Paying tribute to the strong mothers of June 4 victims," two local residents who saw it told Reuters. Police are investigating how the advertisement got into the newspaper, one local resident who requested anonymity...