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Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has reached across the aisle in his first five weeks on the job. But his interest in dissolving gridlock doesn't extend to supporting the healthcare bill.
Why did Lars Vilks, a mild-mannered Swede who calls himself "the artist," booby-trap his art with electrified barbed wire, keep an ax by his bedside, and build a panic room upstairs?
For one, Mr. Vilks's 2007 cartoon of the prophet Mohammed as a stray dog continues to bring death threats and even a bounty on his head from an Al Qaeda-related group in Iraq.
But after US authorities on Tuesday arrested Colleen LaRose, a Philadelphia woman known on the Internet as Jihad Jane, for allegedly planning to travel to rural Sweden and assassinate Vilks, civil libertarians such as George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley are pointing to another potential incentive for European artists to protect themselves: growing deference shown to Islam by European governments and journalists worried about stoking fanatical flames.
A New Jersey nuclear plant laborer arrested in Yemen with 10 other suspected al Qaeda members was in contact with the same radical Yemeni-American cleric tied to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, federal law enforcement officials told ABC News.
The entire graduating class from Urban Prep Charter Academy was accepted to colleges and universities across the U.S. -- a significant accomplishment considering they are from one of the toughest neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago.
Chrisitians respond to Glenn Beck's comments that churches promoting social and economic justice actually are promoting communism and fascism.
Is blogging going out of style? In December 2007, 28 percent of all 18-to-29-year-olds with an Internet connection kept some sort of blog. By the same time last year, that number hovered around 15 percent. Meanwhile, the number of teens who say they blog regularly continues to shrink, as the Web's youngest users ditch the blogosphere for the frantic pace of the social-media world.




