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Massachusetts police have identified the 4-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed in a trash bag on a beach in Boston Harbor in June, local media reported on Friday, citing unnamed law-enforcement sources. Police have also searched an area home in conjunction with the investigation, Boston’s WHDH television said. A spokesman for Suffolk County prosecutors said the “investigation remains very active,” but declined to provide details.
“One thing is clear to me, regardless of what we did, no matter what decision was made, there would’ve been people who agreed with it and people who disagreed with it,” police Chief Larry Boyd told CNN. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Ahmed Mohamed, 14, is Muslim and the case was an example of the climate of hate and manufactured fear around the religion. The bespectacled ninth grader in
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that President Barack Obama’s healthcare law violates the rights of religiously affiliated employers by forcing them to help provide contraceptive coverage even though they do not have to pay for it. The split in the circuit courts created makes it more likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue in its coming term, which begins in October and runs through June.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis lost another legal bid to delay issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, marking the latest in a mounting stack of rejected appeals.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders scrambled Thursday to head off a politically damaging government shutdown in two weeks over rebellious conservatives’ demand that any stopgap spending bill block federal funds for Planned Parenthood.
By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One in four South African men have committed a rape, most of them during their teenage years when young men use gang rape as a way of demonstrating their power when they feel slighted, said a researcher on sexual violence. “A boyfriend organises to have sex with his girlfriend and then he tricks her into a situation where his other friends come
British rock band The Who on Friday postponed all remaining dates of its 50th anniversary North American tour after lead singer Roger Daltrey was diagnosed with viral meningitis. The Who had last week postponed four dates after Daltrey, 71, fell ill with a mystery virus. “Initially it was hoped that the rest of the tour might proceed, but after extensive tests the seriousness of his condition became apparent when doctors
By John Miller BASEL (Reuters) – Visible from neighboring France and Germany, a new 41-storey skyscraper that drugs company Roche opened near the river Rhine on Friday reaches 178 meters into the sky, easily the tallest building in Switzerland. It also sends a lofty message to cross-town rival Novartis and other drugmakers that Roche, the world’s biggest cancer drug company, is determined to retain its leadership of the $100 billion-a-year
