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Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has shown a willingness to limit the participation of environmental groups in lawsuits involving public lands, writing in one case that allowing conservationists to intervene could complicate and slow down the judicial process, according to an Associated Press review of his rulings as a federal appeals court judge....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As millions of Americans file their income tax returns, their chances of getting audited by the IRS have rarely been so low....
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Republican leaders in Maine and Utah are asking President Donald Trump to step into uncharted territory and rescind national monument designations made by his predecessor....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- At a circular booth in the middle of the Trump International Hotel's balcony restaurant, President, President Donald Trump dined on his steak - well-done, with ketchup - while chatting up British Brexit politician Nigel Farage....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump is accusing Barack Obama of ordering his telephones tapped during last year's elections, offering no evidence while invoking politically charged references to Watergate, Nixon and McCarthyism....
KENT, Wash. (AP) -- Police in a Seattle suburb were looking for a gunman who shot a Sikh man in the arm and told him to "go back to your own country," the Seattle Times reported....
TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's ruling party approved a change in party rules Sunday that could pave the way for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to become the country's longest-serving leader in the post-World War II era....
BEIJING (AP) -- China's top economic official trimmed its growth target and warned Sunday of dangers from global pressure for trade controls, as Beijing tries to build a consumer-driven economy and reduce reliance on exports and investment....
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London, England, Mar 4, 2017 / 04:09 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Is it ok to abort a baby who has been diagnosed with Down syndrome? What about if you find out the baby is a girl, and you wanted a boy? One UK ethics watchdog recently endorsed early pregnancy tests to screen for Down syndrome but opposed the same tests to find out the baby's sex, lest it lead to gendercide. And that logic is far too widespread, says a disabilities rights group, which is challenging such thinking in a recent petition.“While many denounce gendercide and few would argue that parents should be free to abort a girl because they prefer a boy, when it comes to Down syndrome, the logic tragically changes. It becomes a valued individual ‘free and accepted choice’ to discriminate against people with genetic variations. How is this possible?”, asks a petition from Stop Discriminating Down, a project of the Jerome Lejeune Foundation and DownPride.This week, the Nuffield Counc...
