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WASHINGTON (TheWrap.com) - The Stop Online Piracy Act might be stopped before it ever gets online, as yet another influential voice has come out against it.

Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and Intel are members of the Business Software Alliance, which announced Monday that it no longer supports the Stop Online Piracy Act.

U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., has introduced the first proposal directly inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that allows firearms owners with concealed weapons permits to carry concealed guns across state lines.

The online outrage sparked by congresses new effort to Stop Online Piracy had reached new heights, this time stretching beyond users to the companies themselves. Facebook, Google, Twitter, AOL are all among SOPA's opponents.

A victim of sexual abuse by a Penn State education professor tried unsuccessfully to alert the administration from 2001 to 2002, but Penn State officials refused to act, rather than investigate the victim's account, revealed the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC).

Both parties' House leaders, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., are among several lawmakers who profited from transactions that raised possible of conflicts of interest, according to a report on CBS' 60 Minutes.

There is an attempt to change the State of Israel, this is what Netanyahu wants to do, she said.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected to resign, perhaps as early as Saturday evening, thereby ending a wild and tumultuous political career.

We find that Supreme Court justices are significantly more predictable than one would expect from 'ideally independent' justices in 'ideal courts,' that is, independently evaluating cases on merits, free of ideology, a new study says.

A group of 70 corporations, trade groups and organizations filed a brief in support of a lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

Senate Republicans say repealing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) would force states to recognize legal, out-of-state, same-sex marriages

Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, on Tuesday, to discuss Operation: Fast and Furious and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. In his statements, Holder said he regretted the incident that led to the death agent Brian Terry.

Silvio Berlusconi is expected to quit within a week, if not days.

During a Saturday match, footballer Mohammad Nosrati was caught on camera apparently trying to force his hand between teammate Sheys Rezai's buttocks as the two men and other players mobbed another player immediately after he scored the winning goal. Both men have since been suspended indefinitely by the country's soccer federation. They have both been fined almost $40,000 a piece, and could still get the whip.

Iran has fired the head of an oil company because he was discovered to have dual nationality -- a sensitive issue after a top bank manager fled to Canada during a huge fraud scandal, the Vatan-e Emrouz daily reported on Wednesday.

Attorney General Eric Holder will appear before the House Judiciary Committee regarding Fast and Furious, in a hearing that will take place Dec. 8.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the House Judiciary Committee that instead of enforcing the Alabama immigration Law, her department has been working with the Justice Department to challenge it.

The House Judiciary Committee unveiled new legislation Wednesday designed to crack down on online piracy.

An Egyptian court jailed two policemen on Wednesday for seven years for their cruel treatment of an activist whose death helped kindle the popular revolt against Hosni Mubarak.

Burundi is East Africa's most corrupt country for the second year in a row, with the region's police, revenue authorities and the judiciary rated as the worst offenders, a Transparency International (TI)survey showed on Friday.