Shouwang Church, also known as Lighthouse, is what is known as an illegal house church, a church that exists outside the area of state-controlled churches in China. The government in China is publicly atheist as well as Communist, and has repeatedly evicted the group from its meeting area.

In response, the church said that it would meet outside instead of trying to hide from the government.

The government has detained the church's leaders and on Sunday, for the second week in a row, detained many of the members who attempted to worship outside after the eviction in a public plaza.

The arrests of the parishioners were explained by the government as a reaction to anti-political activity, though the church claimed that its gatherings had nothing to do with politics. The government took more than 100 of the worshipers to unknown locations after boarding them on buses.

Following the event, Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, said in a statement of the U.S. state department's annual human rights report that the church members who were detained were expressing their "internationally recognized right to free expression" and asked that they all be released from custody of the government. Later on, they released all but three members of the group.

The Charlotte Observer said that there were more than 60 tornadoes across the state, while The New York Times said there were more than 90.

The tornadoes began in Oklahoma Thursday night and stretched all the way to the Eastern Seaboard, leaving damage of tens of millions of dollars in its wake. The storms left 45 people dead and hundreds injured.

Twenty-one of the 45 deaths nation-wide happened in North Carolina. The state had not seen storm damage of this extent sine 1984, when 42 people were killed by 22 twisters. Most of the deaths happened in small rural counties.

These tornadoes were unusual in North Carolina because though the Great Plains may see these kinds of storms twice a year, they rarely ever occur in North Carolina, according to weather service meteorologist Scott Sharp from Raleigh, N.C. And though it was unusual how many of the storms hit North Carolina, it was most unusual that all of the tornadoes came from one large storm.

Egypt's prosecutor general announced Mubarak's detention on Facebook early Wednesday, according to Huffington Post and The Guardian. This announcement came shortly after Mubarak was hospitalized for a heart attack he had during questioning Tuesday night--he is expected to stay there until the end of his questioning.

The general also ordered a detention of both of Mubarak's sons, Gamal and Alaa, under the same charges for those 15 days their father would be held in the hospital. They were taken to Tora prison, south of Cairo, which is known for having held Mubarak's political prisoners for years.

Gamal Mubarak was a top official in the ruling party and was expected to take the place of the 82-year-old president before he was ousted on Feb. 11.

Most members of Mubarak's regime are currently being questioned as well.

Sources say that Mubarak will be moved from his current hospital, which is Sharm el-Sheikh, to a military hospital in Cairo, although he may have to be questioned outside of the capital for security reasons.

The prosecuter general announced the news on a Facebook page whose purpose was to honor the families of those killed in the protests, estimated to be around 800. The people of Egypt have been demanding investigations into corruption within the regime ever since their 18 days of protests leading to Feb. 11.

The main disagreement at first appeared to be only about the budget--after all, that is what Congress was negotiating. But family spending seemed to be a large factor causing the split as well, NPR and ABC News reported.

Both Republicans and Democrats pointed fingers at the other side for stalling an agreement, and the accusations involved positions taken on family spending. Though hard to tell around which of the topics the dispute centered, there was intense debate about the use of taxes for family spending purposes, specifically for Planned Parenthood.

Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid said that Republicans were mostly against taxes being used to fund Planned Parenthood because it provides abortions to women, although the taxes are private.

But both sides cited the other's main agenda as the source of the prolongation. House Speaker Republican John Boehner said that it was not the spending legislation that caused the most disagreement, but the size of the budget cuts.

In a debate between Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., funding for Planned Parenthood was the heat factor. Hollen repeatedly reminded Pence that the taxpayer money is not what funds Planned Parenthood services, while Pence focused on the idea that abortions make up the majority of its services.

The federal spending budget will be finalized next week.

Further research is needed to prove that the particle is indeed a kind never before seen, as stressed by Brian Greene, a physicist quoted in NPR's coverage of the event.

But though the evidence so far is not enough to say for sure if the particle is a new finding, there is great excitement over its possibility among the scientific community. This is in part because if the particle was truly something previously unknown, it could signify a new force of nature, which sounds impossible to conceive.

"If it isn't something that can be washed away through more refined data," Greene said, "it would be a huge revolution."

The unusual data was found using the Tevatron particle accelerator in the Fermi lab, as researchers were studying collisions between protons and antiprotons, BBC News reported.

These collisions produce W boson particles, and a pair of what are called "jets" of other particles. These jets contained the "bump" in the data, alerting the physicists to something that does not fit within the current Standard Model of the subatomic particle community.

While it was unclear whether the bump was an accident or a real finding, the researchers said that it was definitely not a particle called "Higgs boson," for which they have been ardently searching. According to Dan Hooper, a theoretical physicist at the Fermilab not involved with the study, if the particle was a new discovery it would be even more radical than finding the Higgs particle.

It may be the case that what the physicists are seeing is just a fluctuation in the data, but researchers only have to examine the numbers they already have, and the data from an upcoming experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to find out.

Their decision to sue the group comes after two events concerning their relationship with the gay/ lesbian community that have both created bad publicity and tension between their company and this client base. While the company claims that the lawsuit has nothing to do with the cause they were campaigning for but rather the distraction it was causing to customers, it does not look good added on to the previous issues with their public image.

The first instance that got them into trouble was their $150,000 donation to a business group that supported a Minnesota candidate who opposed gay marriage. After issuing a public apology basically saying that everyone had misinterpreted their donation, they also had a tentative partnership with Lady Gaga to promote her new album which was short-lived and fell through after their business meeting, which reportedly resulted in a conflict concerning their policy.

During the court hearing Friday in San Diego, Judge Jeffrey Barton asked why Target attorney David McDowell had not provided proof of the customers being upset over the activists, but McDowell replied that he could get it, but should not need it since the case is about keeping people off their private property.

Brian W. Pease, attorney of the gay rights group Canvass For a Cause, said that the area in which they were petitioning was considered by courts to be an area appropriate for groups to exercise free speech.

Target maintained that they have asked plenty of organizations to respect the privacy of the area surrounding their store, and their action against Canvass For a Cause did not involve any sort of political agenda. Arguments went back and forth, and Judge Barton announced that he would make a decision by the end of next week.

The bill would cut $69 million from a transit fund to light rail, commuter rail, and bus rapid transit, and would instead use the money to make up for a potential $51 million cut in general transit funds.

The cut would lead to an increase in bus fare. On Monday it passed through the Transportation Policy and Finance Committee and still waits to pass the Ways and Means Committee.

Proponents of the bill were mostly GOP legislators, reflecting a history of division on the topic of transit funding between them and DFLers, who are known to generally support public transit.

The GOP argument for the bill says that it would amount to an overall increase in funding for transit operations, however the opponents say that their estimate of car sales tax revenue is too high.

The bill includes a plan to first pay off debt for projects like the Central Corridor light rail. To fill in the gap needed to pay for the light rail project, the Met would have to borrow money. The transferred money comes from a quarter-cent sales tax on five counties for rail and bus rapid transit.

Since Hosni Mubarak stepped down from his position as president, the military has reportedly stepped in as the force to maintain order in the country, even above the police force. From the start, protesters for the most part regarded the army as an ally in their political revolution. But the military seems to dislike the chaos so much that some members have taken to torturing protesters.

On March 9 the army evacuated more than 190 people centered in Tahrir Square, also known as the central location of the revolution, "Liberation Square." Nineteen of these were women taken to an Egyptian museum, tied to a fence surrounding it and beaten or electrocuted.

One of these women, Salwa al-Housini Gouda, told the story from that day. She was taken along with the 18 other women afterward to a military prison, where they were all tested for virginity on a bed in a hallway.

The army denied the account to be true but some of the other women as well as human rights groups confirmed that it had happened. Ragia Omran, a Cairo human rights lawyer, said that their actions were technically sexual assaults, but the military is considered above the law, keeping them safe from punishment.

This event is an example of the hardships involved with a revolution--chaos is not enough to ensure the progress of a nation.

This year is the centennial anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, an event that represents the mistreatment of public workers. Twin Cities Daily Planet and MinnPost explain that the incident was unfair to workers because factory managers had locked the doors that workers tried to escape through.

The workers, most of which were Jewish and Italian immigrant women, had gathered two years before the fire in a strike to preserve union rights and lost, being forced to keep their jobs in the dangerous Triangle factory.

The first event of the series, which has brought together over 30 organizations to participate, was a film screening about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire at Macalester College on March 6, followed by a panel discussion.

The series includes documentary film screenings, photo exhibits, and more education sessions going all the way through late May. The list and details of events is right here.

Macalester history professor Dr. Peter Rachleff is one of the event's coordinators working with Jewish Community Action, a group that is sponsoring the series.

It turns out that in its wake, the 8.9-magnitude earthquake moved the location of Japan 13 feet closer to the U.S., according to geophysicist Ross Stein at the United States Geological Survey. It also shifted the balance of the planet, making the earth spin slightly faster, and therefore shortening the day by 1.6 microseconds.

As the pacific tectonic plate slid beneath the North American plate, the eastern coast of Japan sunk and was consumed by the tsumani, which sent waves traveling at 500 mph.

Richard Gross from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that these changes are no cause for concern, as shifts in the earth's axis are not unusual and happen because of changes in other forces like atmospheric winds and ocean currents.

But this natural disaster has definitely been a cause for deep concern in Japan, where it has killed nearly 10,000, and in Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, and Kauai, all of which were affected by the tsunami.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates told reporters on Thursday that Obama is receiving "the broadest possible decision space" for a plan of action, and stressed the point that a decision has not yet been reached. One option Obama said the U.S. would consider is to enforce a "no-flight zone" over Libya, which would mean wiping out their air forces.

The decision to be made is compromised by the part of the U.S. in two other wars, and the unwillingness of European allies to join the U.S. in placing a no-flight-zone to prevent opposition of the rebels from shooting them.

Obama maintained that the best-case scenario would be for the rebels in Libya to overcome the situation on their own such as was done by similar rebels in Egypt. However, the opposition in Libya is less relenting than it was in Egypt, with Qaddafi's supporters still trying to gain hold of rebel-controlled cities.

Hillary Clinton was more open to the possibility of imposing a no-flight-zone. She appeared at Capitol Hill Tuesday advising Congress not to cut funding for help to crises abroad, one day after the U.S. started to organize warship and aircraft near Libya.

Although unclear what U.S. action would be most helpful to the situation, Gates announced that 400 Marines were deployed to assist refugees from Libya. Meanwhile, Obama and his administration are applying pressure on Col. Qaddafi to step down from power and leave the country.

Because of all the protests in Wisconsin in the past couple weeks, Democratic representative Nick Milroy attributed their action to an error in judgment. He was dressed in street clothes as he tried to enter the Capitol to get clothes from his office after 6 p.m., and the understandably exhausted police officers mistook him for a protester.

A judge had ordered that the building be shut down earlier that day, in response, after weeks, to the thousands of protesters camping out overnight inside the Capitol and resuming their riots there during the day.

The video of the incident, taken by WISN-TV, shows Milroy close to the doors when the police order him to stay away. He tries to show his ID but doesn't have enough time before they tackle him.

Milroy calmed viewers by saying there was "no harm, no foul in this incident" and that the weeks of chaos have taken their toll on everyone, including himself. Milroy was one of the four Assembly members who, earlier in the week, moved their desks to the front lawn after public access to the Capitol was restricted.

Both include photos as slideshows one can click through, with one line above the photos giving the theme or event that the photos are based on. On the side are tiny descriptions (cutlines) of each photo.

Both have more photos than anything else, and the videos and audio slideshows are listed to the right of the photo albums. The Washington Post also has an interactive feature just like the one in The Times, with a map that can be clicked on and moved listing events and their dates, on their places on the map. Information is given underneath the photos or videos.

The Post also includes an interactive feature advising on how to buy better groceries, with buttons for all the nutritional information of commonly bought items, a place where you can add food to your cart, and then a list that you can print for yourself to bring to the real grocery store.

The Times has some variants of the click-on map as well. There are features, which are videos that give thorough run-downs of events in the news, shorts, which are videos looking into the matter with more intimate and isolated situations affected by the event, and "moments" that are slideshows. There are numerous topics listed above the area where the media shows, and each topic has information from all of this media. Both of the sites' interactive media are not as obvious as the videos and photos.

The New York Times and The Washington Times both covered the popularity of the video, which is fueled by the movement written about here

Noy Alooshe, a 31-year-old journalist, made the video out of inspiration taken from watching the leader give an angry and threatening speech Tuesday. Alooshe said that the combination of the leader's rhythmic speech, funny clothing, and strange gestures gave him the idea to create a spoof that would surely grab the attention of all those in opposition to Qaddafi.

He used a song made by Pitbull and featuring T. Pain, both American rappers, to take place of the speech on Tuesday, with a repetition of the word "Zenga" (giving the video its title "Zenga Zenga"), which was actually Qaddafi saying "zanqa," "alleyway" in Arabic.

Mr. Alooshe finished the video early Wednesday morning and used Facebook and Twitter to spread the link for it. By Sunday night it was viral, having gotten 500,000 hits. A majority of the feedback was positive.

Mr. Alooshe received a message from a Libyan rebel saying that if and when Qaddafi falls from power, "We will dance to 'Zenga-Zenga' in the square."

It turns out that there are supporters of the leader who are willing to be equipped in order to stamp out the large efforts to bring Qaddafi down from power.

But these efforts from Qaddafi to mobilize residents fighting for his cause are proving to be futile. Last Thursday in the city of Zawiyah when his forces tried to launch an assault in order to regain control, members of Qaddafi's army joined the group of rebels, just as 2,000 police officers had done the week before.

The rebels showed their determination to oust their leader Sunday when they brought out tanks, Kalashnikovs, and anti-aircraft guns. They also threatened to make profits off the country's oil supply, 80 percent of which is now in their possession.

The opposition is beginning to gain momentum for their cause, with support from around the world (Hilary Clinton, the United Nations, and Italy's foreign minister who cut a nonaggression treaty with Libya because it's no longer considered a state).

The difference between the movement in Libya and the insurrections going on in the rest of the Arab world is the violence that the rebel forces are apparently ready to use if they can't have their wishes granted through peaceful protest. This trend also carries over to the side of leader Qaddafi, who apparently has no problem ordering his army to kill the opposition.