Week In Review

After being the youngest child in the United States condemned to die by execution in 1986, Paula Cooper, now 43 years of age, walked out of prison lasr week after having been imprisoned for 28 years. At 15, Cooper and three other juvenile girls were involved with the murder of Ruth Pelke, a 78-year-old Bible school teacher.

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Trying to tamp down concerns about government over-reach, President Barack Obama defended U.S. Internet and phone surveillance programs as narrowly targeted efforts that have saved lives and thwarted at least 50 terror threats.

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A judge denied a defense request to delay the start of George Zimmerman’s trial, which began Monday with potential jurors filling out confidential questionnaires and a scattering of protesters gathering outside the courthouse to support the family of the teen Zimmerman shot…

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UK Foreign Secretary William Hague will announce the £20m ($31 million U.S. dollars) compensation package in the House of Commons and thereafter express “sincere regret” to the more than 5000 victims who have been fighting for reparation from the UK government.

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The next time a flight attendant reminds you there’s no smoking or you witness a teenager getting carded at a liquor store, think of Frank Lautenberg. The liberal Democratic senator from New Jersey left his mark on the everyday lives of millions of Americans…

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A building that was being torn down on 22nd and Market Streets, collapsed with a thunderous boom Wednesday, raining bricks on a neighboring thrift store, killing six people and injuring at least 14 others in an accident that witnesses said was bound to happen.

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s decision to eliminate a two-year waiting period for nonviolent felons to regain their voting and other civil rights largely was met with praise from local officials and candidates Wednesday. McDonnell’s office announced that nonviolent felons who maintain a clean record…

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Both the House and Senate have passed bills that would reduce funding of the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called food stamps, but the extent of the cuts will not become known until negotiators from both chambers agree to a compromise measure.

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Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least nine children, and those numbers were expected to climb.

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 In a brutal daylight attack which raised fears that terrorism had returned to London, two men with butcher knives hacked another man to death near a military barracks Wednesday before police wounded them in a shootout.

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