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Does every nation have a right to possess nuclear technology? Benjamin Figueroa SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO...
Health care, appropriations, financial reform, global warming: Congress has a lot of work to do. Starting Aug. 3, lawmakers began to decamp en masse from the nation's capital for a five-week break. What gives...
...movement has led to heated debates in city-council meetings over the definitions of livestock, small animals and farm animals. The result: a hodgepodge of animal-ownership laws across the nation and even within a state. This spring in North Carolina, for example, Asheville voted to allow temporary permits for goats to clear vegetation, while Charlotte banned them from properties smaller than a quarter of an acre - despite supporters showing up at a city-council meeting with signs reading I LOVE MY PYGMY GOAT...
...devotes a page to the success of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase and attributes that success to their being better at what they do than their rivals are [Aug. 3]. Yet nowhere does Fox explain what they do or how they contribute to the economic well-being of this nation. Is that because the constant cycle of consolidations and spin-offs does nothing but assuage the egos of CEOs and enrich the executives and employees of those two firms? Christopher Kane, GRASS VALLEY, CALIF...
...security forces moved to squash a five-day uprising by the militant Islamic group. Boko Haram members attacked police stations, churches, schools and private homes, killing nearly 800 people in an effort to overthrow the government and impose a stricter version of Islamic law in Africa's most populous nation. Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua, seeking to maintain control of an increasingly volatile situation, ordered an investigation into Yusuf's death, which authorities claim occurred during an attempted escape. Human-rights groups say the leader may have been executed as an example to deter other militants...