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High Court throws out 3 death sentences (AP)
AP - The Supreme Court threw out death sentences for three Texas killers Wednesday because of problems with instructions given jurors who were deciding between life in prison and death.
Religious group attacks religion in healthcare (Reuters)
Reuters - A coalition of religious leaders
took on the Catholic Church, the U.S. Supreme Court and the
Bush administration on Tuesday with a plea to take religion out
of health care in the United States.
Two US lawmakers seek to protect abortion rights (AFP)
AFP - Two US lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday aimed at codifying a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy, one day after the Supreme Court banned a controversial late-term abortion procedure.
US Supreme Court allows late-term abortion ban (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - In a major ruling dealing with abortion rights in America, the US Supreme Court has upheld a federal law banning certain late-term abortions.
DNC appoints RIAA shill to run Public Affairs for convention
[Boing Boing] Cory Doctorow:
Today, Jenni Engebretsen was named “Deputy CEO for Public Affairs,” for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver — but
she is better known as the Director of Communications for the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The RIAA is the most hated “company” in America, according to a recent
poll on the Consumerist. …
MSVU Says ‘Don’t Come Here,’ Students Come in Droves
[Adrants] Putting that reverse psychology argument to rest, Mt. St. Vincent University contends it worked for them, and they have the data to prove it. Alongside Extreme Group, MSVU launched Good Thing, a campaign that courts savvy new students by…
Bush defends No Child Left Behind Act (AP)
[Yahoo! News: Politics News] AP - President Bush, acknowledging public frustration over his No Child Left Behind Act, said Thursday the point of the law is not to punish schools that fall short, but to help them.
Leading Islamic Cleric: Nudity During Sex Annuls Marriage
[Little Green Footballs] The former dean of Al-Azhar University (the highest center of Sunni Islamic learning in the world) has issued a fatwa declaring that if a husband and wife are completely naked during sex, the marriage is annulled.
It’s religiously sanctioned mental illness, on a grand scale.
According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University’s faculty of Sharia (or Islamic law), “being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage”. …
Overplaying their hand
[The RBC] I think the White House has finally gone a bridge too far. White House Counsel Fred Fielding is now claiming that the emails Karl Rove and his colleagues sent from RNC and Bush Campaign domains — in a transparent attempt to avoid the Presidential Records Act and keep them permanently hidden from investigators — are nonetheless covered by executive privilege.
Yes, you read that right: emails sent from non-government-owned computers using non-government email addresses are nevertheless part of the President’s executive apparatus and may not be examined by Congress. …
Qwest jury begins deliberations
[BBC News | Americas | World Edition] A jury begins its deliberations about their verdict in the insider trading trial of former Qwest boss Joseph Nacchio.