The thousands of protesters expected at the Democratic and Republican national conventions can come armed with a lot more than signs and slogans: State law in Florida and North Carolina allows concealed weapons, including guns.
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Protesters at US party conventions could be armed
Crystal tinkles as women clad in dinner best bow their heads over champagne glasses, listening attentively to the captain’s evening address. The Armagnac they sip is circa 1900. The dishes, crystal and silverware also hark back to a bygone era — one when the Titanic sailed the high seas, destined for disaster.
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Texas eatery serves $12K, 10-course Titanic meal
(Reuters) – Russia criticized North Korea for its rocket launch on Friday, saying that Pyongyang had defied the U.N. Security Council and that neighboring powers all opposed it. Russia had urged Pyongyang not to conduct the launch, warning it would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution regardless of its purpose and complicate efforts to revive six-party talks over North Korea’s nuclear program. “U.N. resolutions contain concrete calls not to conduct such launches, and this is the shared approach of … …
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Russia says North Korea launch contradicts U.N. council
North Korean troops have been conducting live-fire drills near an island that was the site of a deadly artillery exchange less than two years ago. Meanwhile their government is criticizing the U.S. and South Korea for conducting their own joint military exercises.
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AP – As many as 2,000 people forcibly sterilized decades ago in North Carolina should get $50,000 each, a task force said Tuesday, marking the first time a state has moved to compensate victims of eugenics programs that weeded out the “feeble-minded” and others deemed undesirable.
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NC panel: Sterilization victims should get $50K
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AP – North Korea announced the death of supreme leader Kim Jong Il and urged its people to rally behind his young son and heir-apparent Monday, while the world watched warily for signs of instability in a nation pursuing nuclear weapons.
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North Korea: Kim Jong Il dead, son is ‘successor’
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AP – A decade of war will pass quietly at the White House this week.
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For Obama, 10-year Afghan war mark to pass quietly
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Reuters – It is one of the West’s biggest nuclear proliferation nightmares — that increasingly isolated Iran and North Korea might covertly trade know-how, material or technology that could be put to developing atomic bombs.
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Analysis: West fears possible Iran-North Korea nuclear links
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The Christian Science Monitor – The North Carolina House voted Monday to allow a May referendum on whether to enshrine a ban on gay marriage in the state constitution.
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Why North Carolina vote to ban gay marriage might help Obama
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AP – The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP analysis of preliminary government data. The nation’s nuclear regulator believes a quarter of America’s reactors may need modifications to make them safer.
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AP IMPACT: Quakes pose greater risk to US reactors
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