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CNN anchor Don Lemon on Wednesday during the handoff from fellow anchor Chris Cuomo called on Americans to shun the “stupid” unvaccinated. Lemon said, “I think we have to stop coddling people when it comes to this and the vaccines, saying, ‘Oh, you can’t shame them. You can’t call them stupid.’ Yes, they are. The people who aided and abetted Trump are stupid because they believed his big lie. The people who are not getting vaccines who are believing the lies on the internet instead of science, it’s time to start shaming them or leave them behind.”

Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney is charging into the increasingly divisive White House race with a verbal lashing of Donald Trump and a plea for fellow Republicans to shun the front-runner for the good of country and party. Romney is branding the billionaire businessman as "a phony, a fraud" whose "promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University," according to a speech Romney planned to give at the University of Utah on Thursday morning. The Associated Press obtained excerpts of his remarks in advance. Trump, in turn, dismissed Romney as "a stiff" who "didn't know what he...

The historic marriage of Episcopal Divinity School, dean and president, the Very Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale and Mally Lloyd, Canon to the Ordinary, took place today at the Cathedral Church of St Paul in Boston.The Episcopalian bishop of Massachusetts began 2011 by solemnizing the first lesbian marriage - of two senior Episcopalian clergy - at Boston's St Paul's Cathedral Saturday (January 1). The marriage of Episcopal Divinity School, dean and president, the Very Reverend Katherine Hancock Ragsdale and Mally Lloyd, Canon to the Ordinary, was the first lesbian marriage solemnized by the Right Reverend M Thomas Shaw SSJE, Bishop Diocesan...

Note: The following text is a quote: Former Bank of China Managers and Their Wives Sentenced for Stealing More Than $485 Million, Laundering Money Through Las Vegas Casinos Two former managers of the Bank of China and their wives were sentenced today after their convictions on Aug. 29, 2008, by a federal jury in Las Vegas on charges of racketeering, money laundering, international transportation of stolen property as well as passport and visa fraud. U.S. District Judge Philip M. Pro sentenced Xu Chaofan aka Hui Yat Fai to 25 years in prison, Xu Guojun aka Hui Kit Shun to 22...

Women shun 'the man who has it all' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 1:23am GMT 09/02/2007 Some men are just too good to be true, according to a study published today by psychologists. Men who are good-looking, single, and earn a fortune are not as attractive as good-looking men who have an average kind of job, according to the research. Simon Chu of the University of Central Lancashire and colleagues studied how women weigh up male physical attractiveness and socio-economic status when considering a long-term relationship. They collected data from 186 female university students in the UK, with...

Primary front-runners shun debates ALBANY, N.Y. There's just over a week to go until New York's September twelfth primaries. You wouldn't know it by the number of debates. The front-runners in the four statewide races at stake have participated in just three debates. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing a Democratic primary challenge from anti-Iraq war activist Jonathan Tasini, has so far refused his pleas for any such showdown. Meanwhile, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is battling Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi for the Democratic nomination for governor, has participated in just one face-to-face debate. The one-debate format has also...

In their battle to replace former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, Republicans are embracing their party's ideals while distancing themselves from its record in Washington. As deficits balloon and scandals multiply under a Republican-controlled Congress, these candidates are touting independence over party loyalty and lashing out at the GOP as often as they criticize Democrats. Setting the tone is millionaire businessman Eric Roach, whose television commercials ask, “When did Congress begin losing touch?” “I think it began when Republicans quit being Republicans,” Roach answers in the ad. “You know, they were sent to Congress to bring the budget in balance, to...

Arab women shun Bush confidante By Francis Harris in Washington (Filed: 30/09/2005) A confidante and former chief image-maker to President George W Bush has discovered the limits of the spin doctor's art on her first tour of the Islamic world. Karen Hughes, the new US under-secretary for public diplomacy, was told by professional women in Saudi Arabia and Turkey that she and America failed to understand them. Her tour had been designed to underline the Bush administration's new commitment to improving its image in Muslim countries. Speaking to women in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the former television reporter who...

Whites 'shun' S Africa military The army has racial quotas The South African government says there is a shortage of white people joining the defence forces. Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said the military was finding it difficult to attract sufficient white candidates to reach racial quotas. Mr Lekota said many young white people were finding better opportunities for themselves in the business world. Correspondents say the army has had a delicate job of racial integration since the end of apartheid in 1994. Nationwide issue "When will we cease to be Africans, coloureds, Indians and whites and merely South Africans? This...

Disappointed South Africans shun life in gloomy Britain By Tim Butcher in Johannesburg (Filed: 31/01/2004) They called it the "Chicken Run", the exodus in the mid-1990s of thousands of white South Africans fearful of the spiralling crime, political violence and job insecurity that accompanied black government at the end of apartheid. But now, slowly and almost without a sound, a group of pathfinders are making their way back, grumbling about the low standard of living they found in Britain, Australia and elsewhere, and keen to restart a new life back in what they now see as a more stable South...

<p>On his campaign posters, Republican Tom Horne is surrounded by his wife and four grown children. Arizona voters will surely want a family man for superintendent of public instruction.</p> <p>Also posing with their families on posters for the Sept. 10 primary are Republican Ronald Maynard, running for the U.S. House in the 5th Congressional District; state Rep. John Huppenthal, R-Chandler; and state Senate candidates Slade Mead, a Republican running in District 20, and Rep. Bill Brotherton, a Democrat from Phoenix.</p>

from the May 24, 2002 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0524/p01s01-uspo.html What Jeffords got, a year after switchVermont senator has little clout to show for his role in tipping Senate to Democrats.By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON - Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords has lost that deer-in-the-headlights look that he wore like a uniform during his last days as a Republican. He looks relaxed. And he's more famous than he ever imagined possible. "I had no idea what the response would be, not just here [in Washington], but worldwide," he says. A year ago today, Senator...