Investigators euthanize four animals overnight, plan to reopen shelter Tuesday Humane Society President Tim Trow is shown inside a police car after a search warrant led to charges on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. TARA WALTON/TORONTO STAR

In this article: Dog, Humane Society, and Pit Bull

...also hurt the benthic, or ocean-bottom, environment and create navigational hazards. Frank Chopin , a senior fisheries officer with FAO in Rome , said more people are taking part in programs and campaigns to recover the gear. But there...

In this article: Maine, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, U.S., Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, and Washington

About 57 percent of Fortune 500 companies, for example, provide domestic partner health insurance benefits, according to the Human Rights Campaign , a civil rights organization. While states are offering benefits as well, the federal...

In this article: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Maine, University of California at Los Angeles, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, Defense of Marriage Act, Stanford University, Jarrett Barrios, and Human Rights Campaign

...built or repaired as part of Habitat's annual ''Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project,'' where the former U.S. president ... More >> Greenpeace : Europe : Nuclear Expert Warns Of Safety Flaws An independent expert, commissioned by...

In this article: FAO, United Nations, Greenpeace, Ban Ki-moon, Climate change, Rosalynn Carter, Habitat for Humanity, and Indonesia

...lobby, shows up on the logs 11 times, while John Rother , director of legislation and public policy at the senior lobby AARP , appears twice. Messrs. Tauzin and Rivera met with President Barack Obama three times, Ms. Ignagni...

In this article: White House, Barack Obama, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Justice Department, Washington, and Nancy-Ann DeParle

...that was the intention of our founding fathers, and it is a position that I continue to support by joining in this filing today. " NRA chief lobbyist Chris W. Cox said, "We are pleased that such a large group of state legislators and other...

In this article: National Rifle Association, Supreme Court, Incorporation, Due Process Clause, IP Address, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

...and better funded. How, exactly? Largely because of a ingenious ground game carried out by Sierra Club volunteers. Both men are former Sierra Club leaders. And Sierra Club knows how to organize. If you care about the environment, are...

In this article: Sierra Club, Coal, Climate change, and Washington

...a driver in April 2006, then did it again when someone yelled at him - realizing only later the second person was a police officer. The American Civil Liberties Union sued saying Hackbart 's gesture was constitutionally protected speech. A...

In this article: American Civil Liberties Union

...A landmark treaty that aims to shut down ports to illegal fishing vessels has been approved by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO ), the United Nations agency announced today. This will be the first ever legally-binding global pact...

In this article: FAO, New York, Norway, Indonesia, Iceland, Samoa, Uruguay, and Sierra Leone

...for 24 hours under the headline, "Oahu's Drunk Drivers." After six months, the department will evaluate the results of the program. The American Civil Liberties Union said the effort could violate constitutionally guaranteed due process...

In this article: Honolulu, Honolulu Police Department, Virtual Wall, Maricopa County, Hawaii, Due process, American Civil Liberties Union, and Lost

...the Eugene School District won a 1986 Oregon Supreme Court case that upheld its firing of a Sikh teacher for wearing a turban. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon , which has long supported the ban, said the Legislature should...

In this article: Oregon, Dave Hunt, Idaho, American Civil Liberties Union, Nobel Prize, and Oregon Education Association

Send a link to this post 'Zimbabwean Women Receive Award For Human Rights Campaign' via email: Tonight President Obama will present the co-founders of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) with the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for...

In this article: Robert Mugabe, Human Rights Campaign, Morgan Tsvangirai, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Zimbabwe, and White House

...Menendez of Hoboken was presented with an Outstanding Achievement Award yesterday from the New Jersey Sierra Club. The New Jersey Sierra Club presented Sen. Robert Menendez (D- Hoboken ) with its Outstanding Achievement Award yesterday for...

In this article: Robert Menendez, Sierra Club, Hoboken, Fossil fuel, Global warming, Jersey Journal, and Hudson County, NJ

Article:Gun opponents up in arms as Jerry Brown aids NRA :/c/a/2009/11/22/BAFI1AO83D.DTL Gun opponents up in arms as Jerry Brown aids NRA It may come as a surprise to many of his Democratic supporters, but Attorney General and...

In this article: Jerry Brown, National Rifle Association, U.S. Supreme Court, Attorney General, Carole Migden, Angelyne, Chicago, and Washington, D.C

... Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, and axing an industry tax break could have populist appeal. Robert Zirkelbach , spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans , the industry's trade group, said his group has done no lobbying on...

In this article: Harry Reid, Chiropractic, Iowa, Suicide, Medicaid, Blanche Lincoln, and Tom Harkin

NAPLES The Sierra Club called on the federal government to offer more protections for the Florida panther by expanding its habitat to areas north of the Caloosahatchee River. In filing a petition to the Department of the Interior and the...

In this article: Sierra Club, Caloosahatchee River, Florida panther, Climate change, Global warming, Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Southwest Florida

Article Date: 18 Nov 2009 - 6:00 PST Jacques Diouf , head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO ), "is not satisfied" that the World Summit on Food Security's final declaration excludes "exact targets to reduce hunger," the BBC...

In this article: Food and Agriculture Organization, U.N., Jacques Diouf, The Globe and Mail, Pope Benedict XVI, Medical advice, World Summit, Vatican Radio, and Agence France-Presse

Hyderabad, Nov 16 : The Food and Agricultural Organisation ( FAO ) of the United Nations has declared that global food insecurity has worsened and continues to seriously threaten humanity. With food prices remaining stubbornly high in...

In this article: FAO, Land degradation, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, United Nations, and India