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There are new developments in our investigation of veterans charities that give little money directly to vets. Watch AC360° at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.


KTH: Pastor preaches about eliminating gays

A North Carolina pastor says gays and lesbians should be rounded up and confined until they die. His sermon included anti-Obama remarks that could be a violation of the church's tax-exempt status.

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Students receive electric shocks

The Director of Research for a school that administers shocks to change children's behavior defends the method. The Director of Yale’s Child Neuroscience Laboratory, and a father of autistic children, disagrees with the treatment; he says punishment doesn't treat the underlying cause.

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Church member to CNN: 'Lay off my pastor'

CNN's Gary Tuchman talks to church members about their pastor's controversial anti-gay sermon.

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Minister to file complaint on Worley

Rev. Barry Lynn, the Founder and Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, wants a North Carolina pastor to lose his church's tax-exempt status for remarks against Obama's re-election during an anti-gay sermon.

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Carville: Obama's Bain ad is legitimate

James Carville and Ari Fleischer debate both campaigns' dueling ads about Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital.

RidicuList: Man cut off during all-you-can-eat meal

The sign says "All You Can Eat," and one man tried. Oh, how he tried. He accuses a restaurant of false advertising after he was told to stop eating.

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Tonight on AC360: School uses electric shocks on autistic students

Can zapping emotionally challenged children with painful electrical shocks - like cattle - actually help them? The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Massachusetts claims it does. But as Anderson Cooper reported last week, there’s a new push to close the school.

The renewed effort to shutdown JRC comes after a graphic video surfaced that school officials didn't want the public to see. The video shows Cheryl McCollins' son, Andre, receiving 31 electric shocks from school staff in a seven hour period. His family’s attorney says he was later treated for post traumatic stress disorder.

However, another mother, Marie Washington, said JRC saved her son's life by using the shocks to treat him, instead of medications. Washington calls the program a "godsend."

JRC is a special needs school for children as young as 3-years-old. Their website says they've provided "very effective education and treatment to both emotionally disturbed students with conduct, behavior, emotional, and/or psychiatric problems and developmentally delayed students with autistic-like behaviors."

Critics disapprove of the method used by the school to change students' behavior. JRC calls the shocks "aversive therapy," opponents call it torture. They invented the device used to administer the shocks, and they're the only school using the technique.

Tonight, Anderson explores the medical research behind the shock therapy. He'll speak with one of the top autism researchers in the country, Kevin Pelphrey, who’s the Director of Yale’s Child Neuroscience Laboratory, and Nathan Blenkush, Director of Research at JRC, who has worked at the school since 2006. Tune in to AC360 at 8 and 10 p.m. ET.


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Friday on AC360: Arab Spring: Revolution Interrupted

Anderson Cooper talks with Bob Baer, Arwa Damon and Ivan Watson about the dramatic changes in the Middle East.


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Obama attacks Romney's business record

Obama campaign spokesman Ben Labolt says criticism of Mitt Romney's work at Bain Capital is justified.

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