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December 30, 2014
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California public health officials have issued an alert after finding “very strong evidence” that an adult…
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December 27, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in…
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December 27, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of officers outside the church where a funeral was held for a policeman killed along…
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December 26, 2014
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea called President Barack Obama “a monkey” and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for…
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December 26, 2014
My name is Moji Akinde, and I am an African from Nigeria. And I am American. And I am black.…
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December 26, 2014
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans crowed in 2004 that freshly re-elected President George W. Bush had established a “permanent governing majority”…
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December 25, 2014
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — A 13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested…
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December 25, 2014
“It is good to be present when the ordinary is trans­formed… It is good to see the commonplace illumined and…
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December 25, 2014
BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) — Demonstrators took to the streets for a second night after a white police officer in Berkeley,…
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December 24, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (dih BLAH’-zee-oh) says anti-police protests after the shooting deaths of…
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December 24, 2014
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katt Williams has pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge filed after a photographer accused the…
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December 24, 2014
DENVER (AP) — Chris Easterling was sick of relying on drug dealers in Minneapolis when he needed marijuana to help…
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December 24, 2014
BERKELEY, Missouri (AP) — A suburban St. Louis police officer shot and killed a man who pointed a gun at…
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December 24, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City man has been charged with posting a threat against police hours after…
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December 23, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Cosby hasn’t been “America’s dad” for years. For some blacks, he is the cranky uncle complaining…
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December 23, 2014
HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama had high hopes for 2014. Years of waiting for Congress to come around to…
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December 21, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Boxing great Muhammad Ali was hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia that was caught early…
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December 20, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — An armed man walked up to two New York Police Department officers sitting inside a patrol…
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December 20, 2014
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A video released Friday shows Ray Rice’s then-fiancee crying and kissing him while they are…
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December 19, 2014
Eric Garner’s last words have become the slogan of a new movement. “I can’t breathe” is now everywhere. It’s a…