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A deadly mall shooting on Saturday was a grim reminder that gun violence in America continues unabated.--3 people were found dead including the suspected shooter. Three weeks into 2014 and there was already eight school shootings.

"The illegal immigrant population in the United States has fallen below 11 million, continuing a nearly decade-long decline that has the potential to reshape the debate over reforming the nation's immigration system, according to a study released Wednesday."

The author explains both sides of circumcision as stated by doctors. She also explains that it is every parent's choice to circumcise or not but it's recently become a controversy. Some parents feel it is taking away their son's personal choice and feel the child's human rights are violated.

Can the U.S. continue without privacy laws in place for its citizens? It basically boils down to if the big industries "can agree on adequate policies that balance privacy and profits." The people are asking for basic privacy laws for the internet, but that would mean a tight leash on big company data collecting and everything else implied.

Provides a general picture of marriage apart from how we view it today. Marriage was a means of economic progression for a great number of years in various ancient societies. Some continue this tradition today. While the Western view has adopted to see marriage a consensual a agreement of love and commitment between two people.

Parents in Ohio no longer want to continue with treatments due to religious beliefs, but the doctors believe that the chemotherapy will indeed work. The parents and doctors are fighting in court. The parents want to use holistic remedies when the doctors believe she will die. The parents believe that this is a fight against their personal rights as parents.

In Venice, CA. an owner of a farmers market was arrested for selling unpasteurized goat's milk and cheese to an undercover agent. The farmers market is a private club that only sells to members and personal freedom is in question when an owner can't sell healthy homegrown fares to private members.

This is an articles about the inflation of college tuition prices. It also talks about how it now takes more time for a student to earn a degree.

The many mass murders around the country continues to show how safe we are anywhere. 

This is more of an international issue. Journalists, bloggers, lawyers, and human rights activists of Azerbaijan are being tortured, stalked, and imprisoned on fabricated charges because they are speaking out against the Aliev regime.

Recent findings on the president and his gun claims. Controversies following the ban on guns is causing quite the stink! There is unfair statements made by a man who has armed men follow his daughters.

An article from the First Amendment Center discussing dress code in schools. A continuing topic of debate and I can see both sides of this one.

The fight for conterceptives to be covered on insurance plans continues to work its way through the judicial branch. The church would like to have its religious beliefs impact our health care.

This article sums up the moral and ethical issues surrounding euthanasia. Should you have the ability to control whether you continue to live or die? There are two sides to this argument offering the pros and cons.

(CNN) - Mitt Romney continued to hammer President Barack Obama over the president's controversial remark about business owners, arguing Wednesday that the president's administration has been chipping away at economic freedoms. "It is free men and women that drive our economy. Freedom is what makes America work.

This article talks about whether people should have the right to a Doctor Assisted Death or not. It continues by stating that If people are suffering then they should have this right.

Even now in 2012 women are still not treated equally. Last year it was reported that women make 75% of what men make. Even though women are more likely to have a college education women continue to make less than men.

The views expressed on this page are those of individual authors and may not reflect the views of the U.S. government. The information contained herein should be used for information purposes only. Illegal immigration continues to be a controversial and divisive topic, not only in the United States, but throughout the world.

In less than a month, two little boys in Miami will learn if their foster father can become their adopted dad-or if they'll continue to be wards of the state. Frank Martin Gill has fostered the two since 2004, but his petition to adopt them has turned into an emotional court battle.

In order for a scientist in genetic engineering to end sufferings from children and adults they would have to continuously breed out the non-desired trait. Meaning this would take many years of a long and tedious process. In other words if you wanted the odds at 0.01 you would need to breed the trait out through 90 generations. To have a one in one million chance it would take 900 generations. That is not the desired time the scientist were hoping for as well as the population. This book is 136 pages so i did only give an exert from a paragraph that really stuck out to me.