| Haunting photos, unexpected support Posted: 25 Jun 2013 02:48 PM PDT  Day two of George Zimmerman's murder trial brought forth powerful pieces.
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| Harry Reid calls House Republicans ‘crazies’ Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:44 PM PDT  "Wacko birds" are so last season. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a frustrated Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid referred to some House Republicans as "crazies" when asked about the federal immigration bill's chances of passing the Republican-majority House. "The speaker has said, within a period of a little over 24 hours, we're [...]
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| Obese Americans confront 'brutal' disease Posted: 25 Jun 2013 11:52 AM PDT  Hearing his doctor utter the "o" word pushed Steven Bryan to shed weight. At 6 feet and 287 pounds, he was morbidly obese, his doctor warned him in November 2011. That news forced the 50-year-old Anaheim, Calif., resident to re-examine his habits. He made some changes, dropped below 250 and now hovers around 257. His [...]
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| Obama opens 2nd-term drive against climate change Posted: 25 Jun 2013 03:39 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Appealing for courageous action "before it's too late," President Barack Obama launched a major second-term drive Tuesday to combat climate change and secure a safer planet, bypassing Congress as he sought to set a cornerstone of his legacy.
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| Putin: 'Nyet' to US request to turn over Snowden Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:52 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Yes, he's at a Moscow airport, and no, you can't have him.
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| GOP divided on immigration; House uncertain Posted: 25 Jun 2013 02:12 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are split over the immigration bill steaming toward approval at week's end, a divide that renders the ultimate fate of White House-backed legislation unpredictable in the House and complicates the party's ability to broaden its appeal among Hispanic voters.
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| IG: IRS credit cards used for wine, pornography Posted: 25 Jun 2013 02:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Poor oversight by the Internal Revenue Service allowed workers to use agency credit cards to buy wine for an expensive luncheon, dorky swag for managers' meetings and, for one employee, romance novels and diet pills, an agency watchdog said Tuesday.
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| Supreme Court halts use of key part of voting law Posted: 25 Jun 2013 01:06 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court threw out the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, a decision deplored by the White House but cheered by mostly Southern states now free from nearly 50 years of intense federal oversight of their elections.
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| Army to cut brigades at 10 US bases Posted: 25 Jun 2013 02:41 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army will eliminate at least 12 combat brigades, relocate thousands of soldiers and cancel $400 million in construction projects as the first wave of federal budget cuts takes aim at military communities around the country.
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| Texas senator filibusters against abortion bill Posted: 25 Jun 2013 03:37 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Wearing pink tennis shoes to prepare for nearly 13 consecutive hours of standing, a Democratic Texas state senator on Tuesday began a one-woman filibuster to block a GOP-led effort that would impose stringent new abortion restrictions across the nation's second-most populous state.
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| Judge in Trayvon Martin case weighs police calls Posted: 25 Jun 2013 03:20 PM PDT  SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Several times in six months, neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman called police to report suspicious characters in the gated townhouse community where he lived. Each time, when asked, he reported that the suspects were black males.
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| A reporter's eyewitness account of Taliban attack Posted: 25 Jun 2013 12:41 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One moment I was standing in a quiet, secure and heavily guarded area and the next it had turned into a battlefield. |
| Mich. farmer with 8,000 pot plants gets probation Posted: 25 Jun 2013 03:13 PM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — A southeastern Michigan farmer recovering from throat cancer was sentenced to probation instead of prison Tuesday for growing thousands of marijuana plants, due partly to many handwritten letters from supporters who described him as a modest, selfless man who helps others at every turn.
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| Texas prepares to execute 500th inmate Posted: 25 Jun 2013 04:37 PM PDT  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison.
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| Obama aims to tackle pollution, climate change Posted: 25 Jun 2013 12:36 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete Tuesday as he announced a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming.
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| US tones down demands that Russia expel NSA leaker Posted: 25 Jun 2013 03:40 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rebuffed by Russia's president, the Obama administration toned down demands Tuesday that fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden be expelled from a Moscow airport in a sign that the U.S. believes he is not worth scuttling diplomatic relations between the former Cold War enemies.
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