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Kennedy dispute reveals divide among Catholics
25 mins ago
A bitter dispute over abortion that prompted Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop to ask Rep. Patrick Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion has revealed the depth of the divide among Catholics over how politicians should reconcile their faith with their public duties.
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FBI wants public's help in civil rights killings
28 mins ago
Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers.
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Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views
68 mins ago
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said.
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Transgender murderer renews electrolysis request
1 hour 31 mins ago
A convicted murderer serving a life sentence goes before a judge to ask for electrolysis treatments as she seeks a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation.
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Medical marijuana finds social outlet in Ore. cafe
1 hour 44 mins ago
At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" _ a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana. Glass jars hold donations of dried, milky-green weed, and the cafe serves up meals and snacks for the hungry.
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The nation's weather
1 hour 49 mins ago
Drier weather was expected to return to much of the West on Monday as a building ridge of high pressure replaces the eastern Pacific storm from Sunday.
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SF area officer, passenger injured during arrest
7 hours 51 mins ago
A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men.
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ME: Teen killed by NYC police was shot 11 times
7 hours 52 mins ago
A teenager killed in a confrontation with New York City police over the weekend was shot 11 times, the medical examiner's office said Sunday.
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