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‘Biblically Founded’ Hobby Lobby Challenges Morning-After Pill

Friday, May 24, 2013

Denver — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, an Oklahoma City-based arts-and-crafts chain asked a federal appeals court yesterday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. contends that private businesses — not just the currently exempted religious groups — should be allowed to seek exception …

U.K. Slaying Linked to Extremists

Friday, May 24, 2013

London — A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said yesterday. Police raided houses in connection with the brazen slaying of the off-duty soldier, identified as Lee Rigby, …

Cockroaches Show Off Evolutionary Abilities

Friday, May 24, 2013

New York — For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong. A killer product stopped working. Cockroach populations there kept rising. Mystified researchers tested and discarded theory after theory until they finally hit on the explanation: In a remarkably …