While the gun control debate rages in the United States, a new meme is taking the internet by storm.
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Anti-Gaddafi Forces Distrustful of Western Reporters
As the push to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi has stalled, journalists have increasingly borne the brunt of the frustrations of Libya’s rebels. Although the foreign press was eagerly welcomed just months ago, reporters in rebel-controlled areas have recently been harassed and intimidated.
Yemen’s Growing Chaos: When a Dictator Loses His Grip
Residents of Yemen’s capital Sana’a awoke on Tuesday to a dawn chorus of bird song and machine-gun fire. An uneasy truce between rebel tribesmen and loyalist troops had prevailed over the weekend
Tucson Tragedy: Is Gun Control a Dead Issue?
Like them or not, guns are as American as covered wagons and the infield-fly rule. The revolutionaries and pioneers who forged the nation and peopled its wilderness really did cling to their guns as tenaciously as they clung to their religion.
Navy ship accidentally fires on Polish port
A crew member aboard a U.S.
12 dead in Brazil drug battle
Twelve people, including two police officers, were killed Saturday in a gun battle between two rival drug gangs in a slum in northern Rio de Janeiro, a state spokesman said.
Ex-Enron CEO to get hearing before Supreme Court
Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling will be given a hearing before the U.S.
Five Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Term
The U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes for its 2009-10 term on Oct.
Justices take on potentially landmark gun rights cases
Setting the stage for a dramatic battle over gun rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted an appeal challenging the ability of state and local governments to enforce strict limits on handguns and other weapons.