Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Jan 2, 2015

  Noah's Ark: Russian Gov't Gives Moscow University $194 Million to House DNA From Every Living, Extinct Creature Inside Giant Ark

  Russia has awarded its largest scientific grant ever to Moscow State University that will allow the school to proceed with a project called "Noah's Ark," which inspires to be the world's first DNA databank consisting of genetic material from every living and extinct creature, which they will house in a giant ark.

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  Jan 2, 2015

  Christian Surfers Save Mother and 2 Sons From New Zealand's Lethal Rip Tide on Christmas Day

  A group of Christian surfers in New Zealand saved a mother and her two sons from drowning on Christmas Day after the family was caught in a near-lethal rip tip tide off the shore of a beach an hour west of Auckland.

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  Jan 1, 2015

  No More Courthouse Weddings in 3 Florida Counties to Avoid Gay Marriage Ceremonies

  In response to the likelihood that a federal judge will rule that a lift on the state's gay marriage ban will apply to all Florida counties, three Jacksonville-area counties have decided that they'll stop conducting courthouse weddings.

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  Dec 31, 2014

  Iraqi Soldier Turned Baghdad Cab Driver Reveals How Iraq's 50,000 Ghost Soldiers Operate Their Scam

  An Iraqi man who claims to be one of the 50,000 "ghost soldiers" on the Iraqi military's payroll, revealed over the weekend that corrupt superior officers within the Iraqi military are allowing soldiers, who have failed to report for duty, to stay on the military's payroll in exchange for a portion of their salary.

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  Dec 31, 2014

  Christian Student Banned From Passing Out Flyers Promoting Prayer Session at Middle School's Flagpole

  A Kansas public middle school has prevented a seventh grader from passing out and posting religious fliers inviting fellow students to join her for a prayer session at the school's flagpole before class.

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  Dec 31, 2014

  Rhode Island Supreme Court Rules Catholic Firefighters' Rights Were Not Violated When Forced to Drive Fire Truck in Gay Pride Parade Despite Religious Objections

  The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has unanimously ruled that that the constitutional rights of two Catholic Providence firefighters were not violated when they were forced to drive a fire truck in a gay pride parade despite their religious objections to the homosexual lifestyle.

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  Dec 30, 2014

  Boko Haram's Bloodiest Year Yet: Over 9,000 Killed, 1.5 Million Displaced, 800 Schools Destroyed in 2014

  The Nigerian Security Network, an organization monitoring the casualties surrounding the Boko Haram insurgency, estimates that 2014 was the deadliest year so far in the terrorist group's five year insurgency in Northeast Nigeria.

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  Dec 30, 2014

  Gov. Cuomo Approves Regulation That Forces Taxpayers to Cover Over $67 Million for New Yorkers' Sex Change Operations

  The governor of New York recently approved a new policy that will allow the state's tax dollars to fund sex change operations for indigent New Yorkers who identify as transgender and have been medically diagnosed with gender identity disorder.

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  Dec 30, 2014

  ISIS' Female Police Brigade Places Medieval-Like Torture Clamp With Spikes on Mother's Chest After They Found Her Breastfeeding in Public

  The Islamic State's all-female religious police force in charge of patrolling the streets of Raqqa have tortured a young woman after she was found breastfeeding in public by placing a medieval-like spiked clamp around her chest, an opposition group has reported.

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  Dec 29, 2014

  Man Who Shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 Brings White Roses to Late Pontiff's Tomb

  The man who attempted to assassinate former Pope John Paul II in 1981 visited the late pontiff's grave at the Vatican on Saturday, placed flowers on his tomb and also requested to meet with Pope Francis, Italian media outlets have reported.