LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Lawmakers in Arkansas and Indiana passed legislation Thursday that they hoped would quiet the national uproar over new religious objections laws that opponents say are designed to offer a legal defense for anti-gay discrimination.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal indictment against New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez turns in part on prosecutors' ability to show that the lavish gifts and political favors at the center of the case amount to outright bribery rather than reflections of a decades-long friendship between the lawmaker and the donor.
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Lawmakers in the two states changed bills promoted as religious freedom measures, and criticized as anti-gay.
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This exhibition celebrates the centennial of the Great Migration and, just as significantly, reunites Jacob Lawrence’s paintings of this mass movement of African-Americans to the North.
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The Snow is still great up there! go out and enjoy it this Easter weekend:)
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The newly anointed successor to Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” has a fearlessness when it comes to talking about race from his life in South Africa.
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Two ships are being funded to Austal USA (LCS 22 and LCS 24), at an actual funding value of $691M. One ship plus AP is being funded to Lockheed …
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two women were arrested Thursday on charges they plotted to wage violent jihad by building a homemade bomb and using it for a Boston Marathon-type attack.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Pennsylvania congressmen are expressing concern about delays in a government investigation into widespread mismanagement of disability claims at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ office in Philadelphia.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The state can remove an out-of-control child from the custody of a parent even if the mother or father is not to blame for the child’s behavior, a California appeals court said Thursday.
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