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AP EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon to mark gay pride month

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Last summer, gays in the military dared not admit their sexual orientation. This summer, the Pentagon will salute them, marking June as gay pride month just as it has marked other celebrations honoring racial or ethnic groups....
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Yosemite's falling-boulder risks

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. | Falling boulders are the single biggest force shaping Yosemite Valley, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the national park system. Now swaths of some popular haunts are closing for good after geologists confirmed that unsuspecting tourists and employees are being lodged in harm's ...

Break-in at Kanye West's home

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
Kanye West's scary break-in, Showtime cancels "Weeds," and Robert De Niro's tribute to young film students.
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US Olympic uniforms could shave time off sprints

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. Olympic track and field athletes will wear uniforms at the London Summer Olympics that Nike says could shave up to 0.023 seconds off 100-meter sprint times - a difference that could have elevated Walter Dix from bronze to the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics....
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Ore. court: Scouts 'perversion files' to be public

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon Supreme Court's decision Thursday to approve the release of 20,000 confidential Boy Scouts of America documents will give the public its deepest look at people flagged by the organization as suspected child molesters and show how Scouts kept them out of leadership....
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Ore. court: Scouts 'perversion files' to be public

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon Supreme Court's decision Thursday to approve the release of 20,000 confidential Boy Scouts of America documents will give the public its deepest look at people flagged by the organization as suspected child molesters and show how Scouts kept them out of leadership....
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Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
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Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
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Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Ex-inmate: Reputed Klansman granted legal power

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A black man says Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klan behind bars for the 1960s deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, gave him power of attorney and land rights when they were both in prison together....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Pentagon to host first Gay Pride event

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
The Department of Defense announced Thursday that it will be commemorating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride later this month. The event will be the first of its kind for the Pentagon.
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Coca-Cola announces Burma return

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
Coca-Cola says it will resume business in Burma after 60 years, following a US decision to suspend investment sanctions.
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Dad of 20 can't remember names

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
Reza Sayah reports on a Pakistani family with so many children, they sometimes forget some of their names.
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No job? Mental health is on the line

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
Michael Dixon hasn't had a job since September. Experts say long-term joblessness can lead to hopelessness and depression.
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Egypt court dissolves Islamist-led parliament

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
CAIRO (AP) -- Judges appointed by Hosni Mubarak dissolved the Islamist-dominated parliament Thursday and ruled his former prime minister eligible for the presidential runoff election this weekend - setting the stage for the military and remnants of the old regime to stay in power....

Senate panel boosts spending on IRS, Pell Grants

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel divided along party lines Thursday to approve legislation funding President Barack Obama's health care and financial services overhaul laws and boosting spending on the IRS and Pell Grants for low-income college students....
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Senate panel boosts spending on IRS, Pell Grants

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel divided along party lines Thursday to approve legislation funding President Barack Obama's health care and financial services overhaul laws and boosting spending on the IRS and Pell Grants for low-income college students....
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Senate panel boosts spending on IRS, Pell Grants

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate panel divided along party lines Thursday to approve legislation funding President Barack Obama's health care and financial services overhaul laws and boosting spending on the IRS and Pell Grants for low-income college students....
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Court OKs release of 'perversion files' compiled by Scouts

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday approved the release of 20,000 pages of so-called perversion files compiled by the Boy Scouts of America on suspected child molesters within the organization for more than 20 years, giving the public its first chance to review the records.

The files, ...

Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 20:07
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford had plenty of things to say Thursday before a federal judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades....
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