Supreme Court rejects animal cruelty law, upholds free speech
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a federal law that criminalized photographs and other depictions of animal cruelty, saying the law violated free speech rights protected by the First Amendment. Read full story from csmonitor.com

Man faces sexual assault charges in wake of ‘cleansing ritual’
DECATUR – Two 17-year-old women told police they were sexually molested by a 40-year-old man involved in a witchcraft group known as the “Order of the Seeing Eye.” Read full story from herald-review.com

Sherpas set out to clear Everest of garbage – and corpses
A team of 20 Sherpa mountaineers plans to remove bodies of climbers who died in Mount Everest’s “death zone,” a treacherous stretch that has claimed some 300 lives since 1953. Read full story from theglobeandmail.com

Orthodox experts considers Iceland volcano eruption a sign of God’s wrath
They noted that Iceland “has recently become a center of European neo-paganism of Aryan occult kind, which has Nazi character” as Iceland has headquartered the Association of European Ethnic Religions that has recently worked out a draft of merger between the World Pagan Assembly and International Pagan Alliance. Read full story from interfax-religion.com

Heritage week big at North Idaho College
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – The American Indian Student Alliance at North Idaho College brought a full week of events revolving around Indian heritage to the entire student body. Most activities were free but two events had a small fee and raised $2,000 which will go into an American Indian student scholarship fund. Read full story from indiancountrytoday.com

Medicine men, MDs partner for native care
TUBA CITY, Ariz. – The hospital stands in the midst of a world of traditions: of Hopi clowns dancing around centuries-old villages, of Navajo elders tending their sheep, of customs as ancient as the winds that buffet the mesas and desert lands that stretch to the horizon. Read full story from msnbc-msn.com