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- President Obama issued an executive order last month, called "Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria." In essence, it's a broad spectrum plan to keep antibiotics working. There's a lot of good in there, but in one very important way, the new executive order report falls short. It doesn't get tough on factory farms.
- ISIS claim of a caliphate is an insult to Islam.
- Conservative parties with platforms like the tea party's are on the rise in Britain, France and elsewhere in Europe.
- Ukraine sought to unify during this weekend's election, while European Union members voted for nationalist parties.
- Bridget Ellen Mooney Spence, who raised funds for the Susan Komen Foundation, died of complications of breast cancer Thursday at her home in Sudbury, Mass. The former Baltimore resident was 29.
- Maryland's junior senator shows leadership by demanding Russian accountability for a politically linked death
- Peace possible when justice, not self-interest, holds sway