Mormon student, Justice, ACLU join up
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The Justice Department is joining the American Civil Liberties Union in backing a student who lost his state-funded merit-based scholarship because he left college to serve a two-year church mission.
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The ACLU files Freedom of Information Act requests to find out why antiterrorism task forces have been monitoring activists. By Ryan Singel.
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By Joseph Q. Jarvis  During the 1980s, while I was finishing my public health and environmental medicine training in Salt Lake City, I became an active member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and spoke at BYU and elsewhere against nuclear-arms proliferation.
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Defense attorneys for a polygamous-sect leader charged with sex crimes in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-old girl and her older cousin began their case Tuesday, trying to debunk the contention that his church places women in submissive roles.
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An American student extradited from London to face charges that he provided al-Qaida fighters with equipment to attack U.S. soldiers is an activist, not a terrorist, his lawyer said Tuesday after the man pleaded not guilty in court.
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19-year-old student becomes joint party leader as rivals call for quick election
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The American Civil Liberties Union, the leading US civil rights group, petitioned the US Supreme Court to rule on the right of homosexuals to adopt children.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Dec 22 (OneWorld) - Army documents released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) offered new details about the deaths of Iraqis in US custody and suggested that prosecution in several cases was pre-empted by military
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The A.C.L.U. is collecting information in a fund-raising effort that has ignited a debate over its commitment to privacy rights.
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By SONJA BARISIC  NORFOLK, Va. - Some students and alumni at an evangelical Christian university founded by Pat Robertson are upset with the commencement choice of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon.
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The Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University is part of a movement around the nation that brings a religious perspective to the law.
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Devin Theriot-Orr, a member a feisty group of reporter-activists called Indymedia, was surprised when two FBI agents showed up at his Seattle law office, saying the visit was a "courtesy call" on behalf of Swiss authorities.
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After 115 days on the FBI's most-wanted list and a year in solitary confinement in a jail called Purgatory, the leader of the nation's largest polygamist sect is going on trial in St. George, Utah.
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The American Legion opened its national convention in Salt Lake City this week with high hopes the gathering would help "unite America" behind the war in Iraq. Instead, the veterans have found themselves in a fight with the city's anti-war mayor.
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The anti-pedophile group Perverted Justice, based in Portland, Ore., says it has participated in the convictions of 113 Internet predators.
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David Edwards waves a US flag and holds a sign as he stands with other protesters on the steps of the Temple of Justice before a state Supreme Court hearing, Wednesday morning, Dec. 22, 2004, in Olympia, Wash.
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Austin Cloyd's dedication to helping the people of Appalachia has poured into others. Mary Read's scholarship fund will help other students fulfill her dream of graduating from college. And even in death, Lauren McCain is still spreading the word of God.