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| No difference in kids with same-sex, opposite-sex parents - study | | | By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - (Corrects name of university in fourth paragraph) Scientists agree that children raised by same-sex couples are no worse off than children raised by parents of the opposite sex, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Oregon professor. The new research, which looked at 19,000 studies and articles related to same-sex parenting from 1977 to 2013, was released last week, and comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule by the end of this month on whether same-sex marriage is legal. "Consensus is overwhelming in terms of there being no difference in children who are raised by same-sex or different- sex parents," University of Oregon sociology professor Ryan Light said on Tuesday. |
| Obama announces new hostage response, but no U.S. ransoms | |  By By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a more coordinated U.S. response to help rescue Americans held hostage by terrorists and acknowledged the government had sometimes let the families down. After an emotional meeting with relatives of executed hostages, he said: "I acknowledged to them in private what I want to say publicly, that it is true that there have been times where our government, regardless of good intentions, has let them down." He added: "I promised them that we can do better." The president reasserted the main plank of the U.S. policy, that unlike some allies the government would not make concessions or pay ransoms to hostage takers, saying this would enrich the militants and encourage further abductions.
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| Wednesday Bible study: Charleston attack upsets a Southern tradition | | | By Luciana Lopez CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Brushing aside her son's concerns, Rosa Ellington plans to keep attending Wednesday evening Bible studies as she has the past 15 years, despite last week's massacre of nine black worshippers at a nearby church in Charleston, South Carolina. Wednesday night Bible study is a cornerstone of religious life across the Southern United States, and particularly in Charleston, dubbed the Holy City because of its many churches. While the horror of that evening was undeniable, Ellington said she has no intention of giving up her beloved weekly church ritual, which falls half-way between Sunday services. |
| Boston bomber Tsarnaev to speak at sentencing hearing, attorney says | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev plans to speak at the Wednesday hearing where he is to be formally sentenced to death following statements by parents of the dead and some of the scores wounded in the 2013 attack. The same federal jury that earlier this year found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of killing four people and injuring 264 in the bombing and its aftermath voted in May to sentence him to death by lethal injection. Defense lawyer Judith Clarke said Tsarnaev would speak. |
| White nationalists condemn church killings, identify with shooter | |  By Tom Polansek ABBEVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Leaders of America's core white supremacist groups have a laundry list of perceived grievances. Interviews with half-a-dozen prominent white nationalists reveal a movement that they say has been re-energized by such things as the election of America's first black president and, more recently, what movement leaders describe as "a siege" against white police officers. "A lot of the whites in the U.S. are starting to wake up," Robert Jones, grand dragon of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, said in an interview.
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| In new hostage policy, U.S. will not prosecute families for paying ransom | | | The White House on Wednesday released a new policy aimed at becoming more sensitive to the needs of families of U.S. hostages held abroad, saying the government needed to "evolve" to take account of a shift in the way groups take captives. After a six-month review that included discussions with families of people held overseas, the White House said the government will continue its longstanding policy of not making concessions to hostage-takers. The government may communicate with hostage-takers and intermediaries, and it may help families who are trying to pay ransom, the White House said. |
| Dutch far right politician airs Mohammad cartoons on TV | |  Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on Wednesday aired cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Dutch television that were drawn at a cartoon competition in Texas that was attacked by two gunmen in May. Aissa Zanzen, spokesman for the Council of Moroccan Mosques in the Netherlands, called Wilders' action, using public broadcast time allocated to political parties, a publicity stunt. "Wilders is out to provoke Muslims and he has done everything he can to do that," he said. Wilders, in a broadcast coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, introduced the three-minute broadcast, in the second half of which the cartoons scrolled across the screen accompanied by piano music.
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| Computer error a possible cause of Poland airline outage - prosecutors | | | Polish prosecutors are looking into whether the outage which grounded dozens of jets operated by Polish airline Lot at Warsaw's main airport on Sunday may have been caused by a computer system error, a spokesman for the Warsaw prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. The prosecutor's spokesman said computer error was one of the versions being examined. Asked about the possibility of computer error having been the cause, the carrier's spokesman said on Wednesday: "The current state of our knowledge indicates that outside interference must have taken place." Around 1,400 passengers were stranded at Warsaw's Chopin airport when the flight plan system went down for around five hours on Sunday. |
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