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Friday, July 13, 2012  Lawyers for Texas and the Department of Justice are framing their final arguments about Texas' controversial voter ID law around the federal Voting Rights Act.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012  There's a bit of a controversy brewing between the Amarillo SPCA and a local couple over whether or not they're capable of taking care of an adopted pet.

Saturday, February 25, 2012  A prosecutor told jurors that Dharun Ravi, now 19, spied on roommate Tyler Clementi and acted maliciously "to deprive him of his dignity."

Friday, January 20, 2012  Supreme Court ruling on church discrimination leaves educators at religious schools in limbo

Thursday, December 01, 2011  The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania filed the lawsuit for the unidentified 13-year-old boy.

Monday, June 20, 2011  Supreme Court blocks huge sex bias lawsuit by women who work at Wal-Mart

Wednesday, May 18, 2011  It's the story of a dwarf who was fired for asking to use a stool to perform her job at an El Paso Starbucks.

Monday, March 28, 2011  At issue in the largest job discrimination lawsuit ever against the nation's largest retailer is not the outcome, but whether the suit can move forward.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011  Obama administration presenting first US call for gay rights at the UN Human Rights Council

Tuesday, December 21, 2010  Updated with video of FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell explaining his "no" vote. A divided Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules meant to prohibit broadband companies from interfering with Internet traffic flowing to their customers.

Monday, September 13, 2010  It is two blocks from ground zero, but the site of a proposed mosque and Islamic center shouldn't be seen as "hallowed ground" in a neighborhood that also contains a strip club and a betting parlor, the cleric leading the effort said Monday.

Monday, September 13, 2010  Nine years of denouncing terrorism, of praying side-by-side with Jews and Christians, of insisting "I'm American, too." None of it could stop a season of hate against Muslims that made for an especially fraught Sept. 11.

Friday, September 10, 2010  This 9/11 is more political and contentious than the eight before it, with grieving family members on opposite sides of the mosque battle.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010  The Obama administration on Tuesday weighed in against a Florida church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book, with the State Department calling the plan "un-American" and officials saying it could threaten U.S. troops, diplomats and travelers overseas.

Saturday, September 04, 2010  Each time a new wave of people exited, the young Minneapolis residents — who hadn't eaten all day — tried to press into their hands a small, glossy card that read "Islam Explained" on one side.