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It was the 2013 Politifact "Lie of the Year," our president's now infamous line: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." Now all Americans are realizing what Catholics have known from the beginning: President Barack Obama is a master of deception. Lest people forget, passage of the Affordable Care Act happened in part because Obama struck a deal with a single Catholic holdout: Bart Stupak, D-Michigan. Stupak agreed to vote for the bill in exchange for an executive order protecting conscience rights and preserving the Hyde Amendment's ban on the use of federal funds for abortion....

What began as a startling NAACP suit accusing US Airways Group Inc. of discriminating against its African American employees at Philadelphia International Airport has ended with a settlement and a pledge by the airport's largest carrier to strengthen workplace diversity. On the matter of the monetary terms and whether the three former US Airways employees named as plaintiffs in January's federal class-action suit would get - or even want - their old jobs back, no one would say.

"Somehow, you know it’s coming. That OMG moment is just around the corner. You can feel the inescapable reality creeping up on you. Something will leak. Someone will spill the beans." — Sam Sewell, National Grand Jury to Indict Barack Obama "The biggest question, and the biggest reason for asking more questions, is the fact Obama has enlisted law firms across the nation to battle every attempt to access, among other documents, his birth, schooling, immigration or passport records." — New Jersey attorney Mario Apuzzo "The man is a mystery. Nobody can make public his actual birth certificate, or even...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A top class-action law firm and two of its partners pleaded not guilty to charges of secretly paying more than $11 million in kickbacks to get people to take part in shareholder lawsuits. At the second of two hearings Monday, Prosecutor Douglas Axel said there is a "significant possibility" of a future superseding indictment being filed, which may add additional claims and parties. Also pleading not guilty Monday in federal court were Seymour M. Lazar, who is accused of acting as a paid plaintiff in some of the firm's cases, and Paul T. Selzer, who is...

NEW YORK --The mother of a 24-year-old graduate student from Boston who was found raped and strangled in February, allegedly at the hands of a Manhattan bar bouncer, has filed notice of her intent to sue New York State for $100 million. Maureen St. Guillen, of Boston, filed the "notice of claim" with the state attorney general's office Thursday in connection with the slaying of her daughter Imette. The notice must be filed at least 90 days prior to a lawsuit against the city or state. The mother's notice cites three state agencies: the Division of Parole, the Board of...

A group of descendents and former residents of two now-defunct uranium mining towns in southwestern Colorado are suing Union Carbide Corp., blaming the company's "utterly intolerable" environmental practices for a host of suspected mill-related illnesses and genetic disorders. The lawsuit, filed in Denver federal court Friday by a Wyoming law firm headed by renowned personal injury attorney Gerry -Spence, lists 82 plaintiffs, many of whom were raised and schooled in Uravan and Long Park before the towns were leveled and declared Superfund cleanup sites in the mid-1980s. Many road maps no longer show the two neighboring ghost towns in...