1. Utah Legislators Call Mormon Leadership’s Bluff on LGBT Rights…
A group of at least five Utah legislators have asked the Mormon leadership to join their call for state legislation protecting LGBT rights to hospital visitation, medical care, fair housing, inheritance, and non-discrimination in employment, based on a statement from the Church itself last week that [...]

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Few structures remain in Doddsville, Miss., plantation home of Sen. James O. Eastland.
On Friday November 22, 1963, news bulletins hit the airwaves as rifle shots interrupted President John F. Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade. The resulting three-day news marathon concluded only after the young president was buried.
Reporters moved on to the investigative phase of JFK’s [...]

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Authorities say they planned the attack while dressed in white tuxedoes
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tenn., has indicted two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill Democrat Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.
Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowart and 18-year-old Paul Schlesselman were arrested last month, before Obama won the presidential election. [...]

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Danger Room by Noah Shachtman
A social scientist in the Army’s controversial Human Terrain program was en route to Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas after being set on fire in and apparent Taliban attack in Afghanistan. It’s the third time in five months that a Human Terrain Team member has been killed or seriously wounded.

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The government sees nothing nefarious in the crash that killed Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mouriño and 13 others, but Mexicans are convinced foul play was involved. The investigation continues.

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By Greg Flakus
Houston, Texas
05 November 2008
A plane carrying two of Mexico’s top crime fighters crashed Tuesday on a busy street in the heart of Mexico City, killing all eight people on board and a number of people on the ground. As VOA’s Greg Flakus reports from Houston, Texas, experts see this tragedy as a setback, [...]

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Greg Sargent - November 5, 2008, 2:00PM
During the campaign the frenzied crowds at Sarah Palin rallies did seem indicative of something frightening in the air, and it turns out that there was a reason to conclude this, Newsweek reports:

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Published: Wednesday November 5, 2008
While most of Chicago was celebrating Tuesday night, police and Secret Service agents believe one man may have been plotting to harm the man who would become president elect.
“Police and the Secret Service are investigating whether a man arrested this afternoon in Rosemont with an assault rifle intended to harm Barack [...]

assassination?
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By ELISABETH MALKIN
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s interior minister and seven others onboard a government jet died Tuesday night when it crashed into a tony business district here during rush hour, igniting cars and sending dozens of people to local hospitals.
The minister, Juan Camilo Mouriño, 37, had been one of President Felipe Calderón’s closest advisers and [...]

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from Huff Po by The Huffington Post News Editors
JERUSALEM — The head of Israel’s internal security service said Sunday he is “very concerned” that Jewish extremists could assassinate an Israeli leader in an attempt to foil peace moves with the Palestinians.
There has been a recent increase in violence by hardline Jewish settlers in the West [...]