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President Barack Obama

has ordered a review of federal and international standards to ensure that people who agree to be subjects in research supported by the U.S. government are protected from unethical or inhumane treatment.

The Rev. Cedric Miller, a New Jersey pastor who barred church officials from using Facebook, saying it can lead to adultery, is temporarily stepping down from the pulpit after his recent admission that he engaged in a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant a decade ago.

James Cialella, 31, an Iraq war veteran who shot a noisy moviegoer in Philadelphia on Christmas 2008, has pleaded innocent to aggravated assault.

King Abdullah, the 86-year-old Saudi ruler who suffered from a slipped disc and had been diagnosed with a blood clot pressing on the nerves in his back, underwent successful back surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital, according to a palace statement.

Jose Alarcon, 27, a police officer from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, who was wounded in a gunfight that he believes was revenge for his arrest of two drug dealers, is seeking asylum from immigration officials in Dallas after fleeing Mexico with his wife and children.

Rep. Jerry McNerney, a Democrat, has a lead of nearly 2,500 votes with fewer than 1,900 ballots left to be counted, The Associated Press reported, indicating that McNerney has won a third term in the Northern California district.

George Djura Jakubec, 54, an unemployed software consultant accused of running a bomb factory at his California home, has pleaded innocent in San Diego County Superior Court to 28 charges, mostly involving possession or manufacture of explosives.

Ward Churchill, a former University of Colorado professor who compared some 9/11 victims to Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi leader who orchestrated the Holocaust, has lost an appeal challenging his firing, after the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that rejected Churchill’s claim that the firing was politically motivated.

Front Section, Pages 1 on 11/25/2010

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