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Rep. Chris Smith / Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Washington D.C., Apr 22, 2009 / 04:33 pm (CNA).- During a House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) questioned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about whether the Obama administration is seeking to weaken or overturn pro-life laws and policies in other countries. Secretary Clinton responded to his questions, affirming that the U.S. government’s definition of reproductive health includes access to abortion. Rep. Smith began his comments by criticizing Secretary Clinton’s reception of the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in Houston in March. Secretary Clinton said...

Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two children in Arboga, Sweden has been sentenced to life in prison. Schürrer had convicted by Västmanland District Court of murdering three-year-old Max and his one-year-old sister Saga, and then attempting to kill the children’s mother, 23-year-old Emma Jangestig, at the family’s home in Arboga on the evening of March 17th. Schürrer had been in a relationship with Jangestig’s then boyfriend, Torgny Hellgren, and according to prosecutors Frieda Gummesson and Johan Fahlander, her obsession with her ex-boyfriend served as the motive for the killings.

Mary Winkler Gets Daughters Back By Lauren Lee MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WHBQ FOX13 myfoxmemphis.com) -- FOX13 has learned that Mary Winkler has gotten her three daughters back. Winkler picked up her children Friday afternoon. The girls had been living with their paternal grandparents since Winkler killed her husband Matthew in 2006. Now it appears the bitter custody battle is coming to a close. As soon as Winkler's criminal trial ended, the custody battle began. But Friday, in an unexpected turn of events, she regained physical custody of her three children. A source told FOX13 that Winkler picked the girls up Friday...

There was a time when the Republican Party was the ship that flew the banner of the Equal Rights Amendment. Mary Crisp went down with the Titanic, railing about women’s issues to the irate Reagan revolutionaries in the days leading up to the 1980 presidential convention. All revolutions have their heroines and heroes whose heresies lead them to be burned at the stake,” wrote Tanya Melich in “The Republican War Against Women.” “Mary Crisp was ours.” It was quite a finale for a woman who was basically a career volunteer, the prototypical ’50s suburban housewife who worked to put her...

The Tennessee Supreme Court this morning refused to hear an appeal from Mary Winkler in her case involving a custody battle over her three children. The full court issued the denial without comment. Winkler, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for killing her preacher husband last year, is seeking to regain custody of her three young daughters who now live with her husband’s parents. Dan and Diane Winkler of Huntingdon, Tenn., are seeking to terminate Winkler’s parental rights and to gain permanent custody of the girls. Mary Winkler asked the state’s high court to intervene by ordering a Juvenile Court...

McMINNVILLE, Tenn. — The wife of a West Tennessee minister convicted in his death still professes her love for him, a friend says. Mary Winkler, 33, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting of her husband, Matthew, at the Selmer parsonage where the couple lived with their three young daughters. He was shot in the back as he slept. She was given a three-year sentence on June 8, but was required to serve only 67 days in custody because of credit for time in jail before her trial, the nature of the offense and no previous criminal record....

Despite the distribution of a video of the Arab suicide bomber who intended to blow up a hospital by the IDF, nearly all foreign news agencies chose to boycott the story altogether. An outraged former undersecretary to US President Ronald Reagan and candidate for Republican Presidential nominee, Gary Bauer wrote a scathing critique of the world media’s decision to avoid the story. Excerpts from Bauer’s letter: ”If you don't get the Fox News Channel then you didn't see any of the dramatic footage of the Israeli army's arrest yesterday of a 21-year old, female Palestinian homicide-bomber, strapped with 25 pounds...

Police: Woman Has Hair Done After Killing Husband CHICAGO (Reuters) - A woman poisoned her husband and put his body in the garage while she went about getting her hair done and handing out Halloween candy, police alleged on Tuesday Barbara Garcia, 51, a retired nurse in Hobart, Indiana, about 30 miles east of Chicago, has been charged with murdering her husband, Cipriano. Police say she laced his soup with insulin on Oct. 30, then repeatedly injected him with the substance while he slept until he died. While his body sat in the couple's garage, Garcia had her hair done...