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Event calls for clergy to take part in the national movement to transform public education

(CNN) -- Dozens of faith leaders from across the country recently gathered to attend The Stand Up Education Policy Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, to talk education reform.


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Children and low- and middle-income Americans would be hardest-hit if ACA were repealed

(CNN) -- President Obama's Affordable Care Act, when fully implemented, will most likely reduce the number of uninsured in every state, age group and income level - a stark contrast to a GOP presidential nominee and Mitt Romney's plan, according to a new report by The Commonwealth Fund, which compares the ACA to Romney's pledge to repeal the law and replace it with more targeted policies.


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Ruling cited likely disqualification of eligible voters as the reason

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- A Pennsylvania judge ruled Tuesday that state officials cannot enforce a new voter identification law in next month's presidential election.


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One in 13 African-Americans over the age of 18 has lost the right to vote

Walter Lomax can still remember the day he cast his first vote in an election. The emotion in his voice changes as he takes a pause, attempting to put into words how it felt to exercise the right after serving 40 years, wrongly convicted, in a Maryland prison.


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The bill prohibits efforts to change the sexual orientation of patients under age 18

(CNN) -- California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill banning therapy aimed at turning gay kids straight, saying such efforts "will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery."


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Spokesman: Church 'is strictly politically neutral and does not endorse political candidates'

(CNN) -- A Utah woman unwittingly started a grassroots campaign when an e-mail she sent to her five children and a handful of friends urging a day of prayer and fasting for Mitt Romney started making the Mormon rounds.


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Boom in geriatric prisoners inevitable result of legislation from tough-on-crime 1980s and 1990s

SHIRLEY. Mass.--William "Lefty" Gilday had been in prison 40 years when the dementia began to set in. At 82, he was already suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease and a host of other ailments, and his friends at MCI Shirley, a medium security prison in Massachusetts, tried to take care of him as best they could.


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Locations, including Oregon, have eliminated money bail, according to Justice Policy Institute

SAN FRANCISCO—If you were to get arrested in Kentucky, Wisconsin, Illinois, or Oregon, or other jurisdictions such as Washington, D.C.; Broward County, Florida; or Philadelphia,


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While it doesn't provide path to citizenship, policy grants temporary employment authorization

When she heard about President Obama's announcement about offering temporary immigration relief to undocumented immigrant youth who came to the United States as children and were educated here, Judy Mendez, 29, thought it was too good to be true.


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New study says getting children to eat veggies may be as simple as a good marketing strategy

(CNN) -- Getting children to eat their veggies may be as simple as a good marketing strategy, says a new study.


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