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California`s Prop 8 Overturned by Federal Judge

Civil rights advocates spent the day giving each other high fives!

(Northern District of California) - A federal judge ruled Wednesday that California's Prop 8 is unconstitutional. The ruling in the federal trial challenging California's ban on marriage for same-sex couples held that it's unconstitutional to have one set of laws for some Californians and another for others.

Local Private Investigator Credited by NBC`s Dateline for Freeing Wrongly Convicted Man

"The House on Murder Mountain" - former investigative TV reporter Eric Mason's long journey to free Scott Cannon is intensely portrayed on NBC's Dateline.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The night Bimla Boyd killed her property caretaker at her home on what is now known as 'Murder Hill' near Salem, Oregon in 2002, Bonnie King and I were there on assignment for Portland TV station KGW Channel-8.

It was a memorable night. We were a freelance TV news camera crew and the only other person on scene beyond the cops, was a single newspaper reporter.

How American News Media Works In Favor Of Israel

Critical analysis from one of the nation's leading voices on the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

(SACRAMENTO) - The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation.

It is the goal of If Americans Knew to provide full and accurate information on this critical issue, and on our power – and duty – to bring a resolution.

Response to Israel Minister of Justice vis a` vis Human Rights of Mordechai Vanunu

Israel claims Vanunu received a fair trial...

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - After 5 years of petitioning the Israeli Government to FREE VANUNU, I received a three page, 13 point letter from the State of Israel Ministry of Justice The Human Rights and Foreign Relations Department on July 29, 2010.

For those who don't know, Mordechai Vanunu is the former Israeli nuclear technician who blew the whistle over Israel U.S. funded illegal nuclear weapons program in 1986.

Ska-P`s Intifada Jams to the Beat of Palestine`s Truth

They Can Leave or Die is Israel's Genocidal Message to Palestinians; more bands worldwide are speaking out.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I recently told you about the jumping hip hop music coming out of Palestine. In that report I talked about how rappers in this occupied nation have no time to sing about the things western rappers wrap their words around.

Arizona Citizens Mobilize in Demonstration Over Perceived `Hate Law`

As if Arizona isn't already hot enough.

(PHOENIX / SALEM ) - Crowds gathered by the hundreds yesterday in this desert city; many were taken into custody and the police and deputies had their hands full to say the least.

Jailers in Phoenix, Arizona had to call for backup in the afternoon as angry demonstrators beat on a metal door at a downtown jail. 32 people were arrested at that site alone, among protests taking place all over Phoenix.

Irvine Councilwoman Christina Shea Speaks Out on Environmental Mess at El Toro

An environmentally sensitive politician from the GOP steps up to expose Irvine's Toxic Cocktail.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Never believe there isn't reason for hope. The old Marine Corps air base in Orange County, El Toro, is a huge political liability, that isn't necessarily a big secret, but new attention is being drawn to this fact by one of Irvine's city leaders, Councilwoman Christina Shea.

She is coming out swinging with allegations of cover ups, wasted taxpayer funds and major concerns about the health of people who once lived on the base, or today live near it.

Ethnic Cleansing in the Israeli Negev

The razing of a Bedouin village by Israeli police shows how far the state will go to achieve its aim of Judaising the Negev region.

(AL-ARAKIB, Israel GUARDIAN UK) - A menacing convoy of bulldozers was heading back to Be'er Sheva as I drove towards al-Arakib, a Bedouin village located not more than 10 minutes from the city.

Once I entered the dirt road leading to the village I saw scores of vans with heavily armed policemen getting ready to leave. Their mission, it seems, had been accomplished.

Salem-News.com Asks Viewers for Support

Salem-News.com and a few reasons why viewer support is more than meaningful, it is crucial to our existence.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Salem-News.com exists after six years because it has a good mission, and a lot of drive. The site's founders left established mainstream media careers to start the nation's first independent Internet news group in 2004.

They have given everything possible to meet the demands of daily news for over half a decade and they need your help to continue.

JPAC May Return Suspected Remains of Vietnam War Journalist to Cambodia

Yujiro Takagi and Ankira Kusaka were captured and believed to be held with Sean Flynn and Dana Stone on 6 April 1970, in Cambodia; includes last footage of Sean Flynn ever recorded.

(VUNG TAU, Vietnam / SALEM, Ore. ) - The man who set out to locate the remains of famed Vietnam War Photojournalist Sean Flynn, son of the acclaimed actor Errol Flynn, says the U.S. government is not cooperating with the Flynn family or his team, in helping properly identify the remains.

He says they appear to not be Flynn's, as it turns out, but possibly one of two missing Japanese journalists who were last seen in the same area.