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The Carroll Arts Center and McDaniel College will be hosting the 11th annual Foreign Film Festival on Fridays throughout February. - In a decision with wide-reaching implications, a federal appeals court ruled this week that potential jurors cannot be left off juries based on their sexual orientations.
- A gay Russian protestor was detained Saturday for waving a rainbow flag as the Olympic torch moved through his hometown north of Sochi, the AP reports.
- It's been a busy week here in Maryland, so that's all we've got. What LGBT-related news has you buzzing this week?
- Just as U.S. mishandled Syria, it is poised to do worse with Iran
- Olympic figure skating gold medalist Brian Boitano, who the White House named to the United States' 2014 Sochi delegation, announced he is gay Thursday.
- Three openly gay athletes are among those who will represent the United States in Russia. Notably absent: Obama, his wife, or Vice President Joe Biden.
- A flatbed truck pulled away from the port of Baltimore last week carrying uranium once packed into nuclear warheads aimed at the United States.
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- Two LGBT activists were reportedly each fined about $120 for holding a banner reading "Gay propaganda does not exist. People do not become gay, people are born gay" while demonstrating near of a children's library in a coastal Russian city.
- American 'exceptionalism' won't mean much if U.S. students continue to lag behind their peers in other developed countries
- Comet ISON, a rare type of comet from outside the solar system, has brightened "considerably" in recent days and could be on the cusp of visibility to the naked eye in the night sky, scientists say.
- Newly discovered artworks recall a despotic regime's desperate fear of the creative spirit
- The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons already won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to strip Syria of its stockpile of chemical weapons. But carrying out the process is a complex feat of chemistry – one that could require the help of a team of scientists at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
- After progress on ENDA stalled, the Senate Majority Leader has promised to bring a bill that would prevent LGBT discrimination in hiring to the Senate floor.
- A poll released Monday shows a firm majority of Americans support a federal law that would protect LGBT employees in their workplaces.
- There is a chance to settle the Middle East's intractable conflicts — if Muslims, Christians and Jews work together.
- If we can build international pressure to stop the use of chemical weapons in Syria, why not to end the war?
- President's Middle East strategies have been coherent — and effective
- The battle between two pharmaceutical companies over an AIDS drug has sparked a debate over whether gay men and lesbians can be removed from juries due to their sexual orientations.
- Getting Russia involved in chemical weapons solution could help bring peace to the region
- Galling as it may be to be lectured by Vladimir Putin on the topic of world peace and international law, the Russian president now has every incentive to deliver on his promises in Syria.
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- A Pennsylvania judge ordered a suburban Philadelphia official to cease granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Thursday nearly two months after he started doing so in violation of state law.
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- The Russian president's lifeline for Obama's Syria policy must be pursued but with skepticism and in concert with Congressional authorization for force.
- First Putin denies Syria's chemical use, now he wants us to trust him on a diplomatic solution?
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- Comet ISON is expected to pass about 40 million miles from Earth in December and could glow on the early morning and evening horizons if it survives a pass by the sun.
