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Christians across the nation, around the world celebrate Easter

As the sun rose Sunday on an old Moravian cemetery in North Carolina, 310 musicians with trumpets, tubas and trombones played in unison while thousands sang, "Hallelujah, praise the Lord" in an Easter scene mostly unchanged since before the Revolutionary War.

The Moravian churches in Winston-Salem — a city famous ...

WILLIAMS: The political (ab)use of fear

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Fear is sometimes good for you. It can help you anticipate and avoid danger, and remain safe. It functions the same way pain does - its purpose is your survival. E.O. Wilson says that one of the clues to our common African origin is our instinctive fear of snakes. ...

Obesity in pregnancy may be link to autism

CHICAGO — Obesity during pregnancy may increase chances for having a child with autism, provocative new research suggests.

It's among the first studies linking the two and, though it doesn't prove obesity causes autism, the authors say their results raise public health concerns because of the high level of obesity ...

Crovitz: Complexity Is Bad for Your Health

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
If even Supreme Court justices can't fathom ObamaCare, where does that leave the rest of us?


Fang Lizhi and Freedom

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
The late physicist taught Chinese that the search for truth demands democracy.


Cuba After Benedict

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
Dissidents who asked to meet with the Pope are now being arrested.


Treasury's Run Around DeMarco

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
Tapping TARP to pay Fannie Mae for another housing bailout.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
The late Chinese physicist and dissident Fang Lizhi on the credibility of Chinese leaders.


James Bovard: The Wrong Way to Help the Disabled

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
A 7% hiring quota for government contractors is unfair and unwise.


Kevin Warsh: Who Deserves Credit for the Improving Economy?

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
American households are proving to be more prudent than their government.


Walter Russell Mead: The Myth of America's Decline

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
Washington now has added China, India, Brazil and Turkey to its speed dial, along with Europe and Japan. But it will remain the chairman of a larger board.


Peter Funt: The Lost Art of the Live Interview

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
Some commentators hardly let guests get a word in edgewise. Others ask questions and then supply the answers.


Venezuela After Chávez

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
Analysts now talk of the possibility of a power struggle between the military and armed civilian factions.


Gingrich says it isn't time to end campaign

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he'll do everything he can to support Mitt Romney as the Republican Party's presidential nominee when that time comes. But that time hasn't come yet.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

New video offers glimpse inside GSA's lavish Vegas conference

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
Congressional investigators are accusing the General Services Administration of violating its employee gift limit with rewards of iPods, digital cameras and other electronics, just as a video emerged of a lavish conference that shows employees drinking and making jokes about wasteful spending.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

The critical voting blocs of 2012

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
Democratic Strategist Mark Penn and Republican Strategist Linda Divall on the critical voting blocs of the 2012 election.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Police: 2 suspects arrested in Oklahoma shootings

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Acting on a tip and shadowed by a helicopter, police arrested two men early Sunday in the recent shootings that terrorized Tulsa's black community and left three people dead and two others critically wounded.

Police spokesman Jason Willingham said the two men were arrested at a ...

A railcar made for whistlestop

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
Whistle-stop campaigning is not a thing of the past. Sandra Endo gives us a rare look at a presidential rail car.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, breaks snow record

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city.

Inundated with nearly double the snow they're used to, Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season's snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches set in the winter of 1954-55.

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The Carnage of the Roses

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2025-05-15 12:27
"Fatal Colours" is the story of how the Lancastrians and Yorkists, in 15th-century England, fought in a slogging death-match between armored men wielding chopping weapons and stabbing swords. Tom Shippey reviews.


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