The Canadian Press Legal experts across the country are closely watching a custody case involving two children seized by Manitoba social services over allegations their parents taught them to hate minorities. Family and constitutional law professors say racist parents can’t lose custody of their children simply due to their beliefs. But if those beliefs are so extreme they promote violence and... 

He was left unpunished after killing a white woman in Iceland After roughly five hours of deliberation Wednesday, jurors cleared Airman Calvin Hill of killing a former friend, Airman 1st Class Ashley Turner, in 2005 at Keflavik Naval Air Station, Iceland. This verdict is nearly two years in the making. Since Aug. 14, 2005, the night Turner was murdered in a Keflavik barracks, Hill has been incarcerated... 

Nick Glasgow, left, who has leukemia, is comforted by his mother, Carole Wiegand, at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward, Calif. His ethnic background make it almost impossible to find a bone marrow match, which usually comes from a patient’s own ethnic group. If Nick Glasgow were white, he would have a nearly 90 percent chance of finding a matching bone marrow donor who could cure... 

Women are playing an increasingly active role on the Swedish neo-Nazi scene, a new book has revealed. Authors Maria Blomquist and Lisa Bjurwald found that the notion of women as passive neo-Nazi group members, simply following their boyfriends into the movement, was largely a myth. “Women are active in everything from distributing propaganda material, writing articles and takng part in white... 

SOCIAL-NETWORKING site Facebook is facing mounting criticism in Australia and overseas after refusing to ban Holocaust-denial groups from its site. Despite international pressure calling for the popular website to block Holocaust-denial groups, Facebook said it does not take down groups that “speak out against countries, political entities, or ideas”. The popular site, however, has recently begun... 

“Obama Calls on World to ‘Stand Up to’ North Korea” read the headline. The United States, Obama said, was determined to protect “the peace and security of the world.” Shades of doublespeak, doublethink, 1984. North Korea is a small place. China alone could snuff it out in a few minutes. Yet the president of the U.S. thinks that nothing less than the entire world is a match for North... 

Authorities in Tooele have issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of viciously beating a 12-year-old boy and sexually assaulting his younger sister. Today, we spoke with a relative of the victims. KSL News has decided not to identify anyone involved except the suspect because of the alleged sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl. The relative, who is now providing a temporary home for the children,... 

Isn't it a mistake to raise the child of a cold heart murderer? A 6-month-old boy whose mother was strangled by his father will be raised by his grandmother. “I’ll never be able to fill my daughter’s shoes,” said Karen Gloyd. ”No one has ever enjoyed or loved a baby as much as she loved her baby.” Alex D. Martinez, 22, told police that he killed his wife Angela... 

Gregory Anthony Keitt (left) is accused of beating Wilton Bob McFaddin Jr., who later died. Wilton “Bob” McFaddin Jr. spent his life teaching children, serving his church, helping others. But in the end, that vibrant spark was snuffed out over nothing more than a jar of coins he kept for the laundry machine, authorities said. Gregory Anthony Keitt, a man McFaddin befriended and took into... 

For one Arlington woman, the answer was “no” after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend. Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors. When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor... 

Rider was a prison therapist in Goldsboro. Friend was serving a five-month sentence. A prison psychologist lost her job last month after shooting her lover, a convicted felon recently released from the minimum-security facility where she worked. Kristel K. Rider shot Lamount K. Friend once in the chest on April 21 in front of his grandparents’ home near Clayton. He survived, though the .38-caliber... 

Michael Jones is wanted on charges of attempted murder, attempted aggravated assault and violating an order of protection. Police said Jones broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home in Columbia, assaulted her, stabbed her and tried to rape her. The two had stopped seeing each other several months ago. “He started stabbing me once here, once here and four times on my legs,” said Kelly English,... 

Nowhere in Europe is there such segregation as Kosovo. Thousands of people are still displaced and in camps. Nowhere else are there so many ‘ethnically pure’ towns and villages scattered across such a small province. Nowhere is there such a level of fear for so many minorities that they will be harassed simply for who they are. And perhaps nowhere else in Europe is at such a high risk... 

First there was the Nakba law, then the loyalty oath, now the Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would institute a one year jail sentence for anyone who speaks “against Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state.” According to Ynet, the act of criticizing Israel as a Jewish state becomes illegal when “it may lead to acts of hatred, scorn or lack of loyalty... 

North Korea has defiantly tested a long range missile and carrying out underground nuclear test on May 25, flaunting its missile power provoking international outrage, can be attributed, to its full conviction that it will have nothing to fear, from the current Obama’s Administration. After Obama assumed office in January, whatever hesitation that existed in North Korea’s policy-making...