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Catastrophic destruction from floods in Balkans, landmines swept away
May 21, 2014Floodwaters triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the Balkans, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines leftover from the region's 1990s war.
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College athletes can unionize, NLRB says
March 27, 2014A federal agency said Wednesday that football players at Northwestern University can create the nation's first union of college athletes.
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Thousands in Washington protest government spying
October 28, 2013The march attracted protesters from both progressive and conservative groups in opposition to unlawful government spying on Americans.
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Attorney General launches new voting rights battle
July 25, 2013The Justice Department is opening a new front in the battle for voting rights in response to a Supreme Court ruling that dealt a major setback to voter protections.
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President Obama hosts event aimed at reducing mental health stigma
June 3, 2013President Barack Obama called for a more robust national discussion on mental illness, saying the time had come to bring the issue "out of the shadows."
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Documents reveal sexual assaults in military a growing epidemic
May 8, 2013Up to 26,000 military members may have been sexually assaulted last year, according to a troubling new estimate, which comes just days after the Air Force's head of sexual assault prevention was arrested for groping a...
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Obama: “Shame on us if we’ve forgotten Newtown”
March 28, 2013"Shame on us if we've forgotten," Obama said. "I haven't forgotten those kids."
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Photographer Milton Rogovin dies at age 101 in NY
January 18, 2011BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Milton Rogovin, a social documentary photographer who built a life's work by looking through a lens at people who were invisible to others, died Tuesday, January 18, at age 101.
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