By Rick Hampson (USA Today) After that cruel day nine Septembers ago, Talat Hamdani felt twice victimized: first by fellow Muslims who killed her son, then by fellow Americans who doubted that a Muslim like her Salman died a hero at the World Trade Center. “It’s worse now than it was then,” says Hamdani, a retired middle school English teacher who supports the project. Despite feeling an anti-Muslim backlash in the weeks after the...
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Mother of dead Muslim 9/11 hero now getting hate mail
Flight attendant fired for revealing she’s on for food stamps
By Jim Douglas (AvStop) A Compass Airlines flight attendant, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), was terminated on Thursday after publicly revealing she qualified for foods stamps....
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California asks judge to send innocent man back to prison
Bruce Lisker, who was accused of killing his mother in 1985, should be sent back to prison because the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in another...
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Teacher bias may cause boys to feel inferior to girls
By Jessica Sheppard (The Guardian UK) Girls think they are cleverer, more successful and harder working than boys from as young as four, a study has found. Boys come round...
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Now homeless, winner of 2010 Order of Australia sleeps in his car
A man recognised with one of the nation’s highest honours for his work with divorced and separated fathers is now living on the street. Tony Miller, the founder of...
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California town wants $15,000 a year tax on home-grown marijuana
By Peter Hecht (Sacramento Bee) Rancho Cordova is asking voters to make the city the first in California to approve a tax on home-grown pot for personal use. Advocates...
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Do eggs now need toxic hazard labels?
By Elizabeth Weise (USA Today) Last week in a series of morning TV interviews, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told consumers that they should reject over-easy eggs...
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Afghanistan president fires graft-fighting prosecutor
By Dexter Filkins and Alissa J. Rubin (New York Times) One of the country’s most senior prosecutors said Saturday that President Hamid Karzai fired him last week after he...
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Silicon Valley’s dark secret: it’s all about age
By Vivek Wadhwa (TechCrunch) This is not something that tech executives publicly admit, because they fear being sued for age discrimination, but everyone knows that this is the way...
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Man hunting for ‘ghost train’ hit and killed by real one
By Jeff Rivenbark STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) — A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary “ghost train” in Iredell County was hit...
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