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Protests renewed, Turkish leader engineers rally of supporters
McClatchy Foreign StaffISTANBUL Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan staged a huge political rally Sunday to demonstrate that his popular strength will survive Turkey's political crisis, even as clashes spread to new parts of Istanbul between police firing tear gas and water...Tags: News Agency, Public Employees, Manufacturing and Engineering, Social Media, Twitter, Inc.
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Mass same-sex wedding at Pride celebration 'a long time coming'
Lorie Young, her white veil neatly pulled over her eyes, tucked a handwritten note into the bouquet of blue and purple flowers she clutched as she waited for the ceremony to begin. Written on it were her wedding vows, the promises of a shared future...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Minority Groups, Social Issues, New Year's Day, Annapolis
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China pressured U.S. university to make him leave, dissident says
ReutersBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) - Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident who fled his home country to become a visiting scholar at New York University, accused the school on Sunday of asking him to leave because of "unrelenting pressure"...Tags: China, U.S. Embassy, Fordham University, Education, Justice and Rights
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June 17 Letters: Power outages, IRS and NSA
Due to the violent storm that blew through Thursday evening, many homes, including mine, lost power [around] 6:00 p.m. Dominion Virginia Power prefers that you report power outages on their website — using a computer— that runs on electricity....Tags: Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, White House, Taxation, Carrollton
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Lake schools should teach about Sheriff Willis McCall and book 'Devil in the Grove'
I'd met the man, but stories about the late Sheriff Willis McCall were just that: stories. His personal appearance, when he came into the Sentinel office in the 1980s, only fed the fiction of the quintessential Southern sheriff determined to keep both...
Tags: Prisons, Pulitzer Prize Awards, The New York Times, Entertainment Events, U.S. Supreme Court
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Supreme Court considers landmark equality cases
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has devoted decades to giving meaning to the Constitution's promise of equality for all before the law. Now, as the court heads into the final two weeks of this year's term, the justices may be about to close one...
Tags: Judges, Minority Groups, Social Issues, Gay Rights, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Miami still waits for federal report on police shootings of 7 black men
The Miami HeraldMIAMI More than 21/2 years since Miami police shot and killed seven black men within seven months, and despite pleas for action from a member of Congress, the U.S. Justice Department hasn't finished its civil rights investigation of the city Police...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Frederica Wilson
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'Call Me Kuchu,' 'God Loves Uganda' shed light on gay-rights fight
As the same-sex marriage debate continues throughout the U.S., another front in the battle over gay rights has emerged thousands of miles away in the East African nation of Uganda, where in 2009 a bill was drafted that would impose the death penalty for...Tags: Uganda, Minority Groups, Social Issues, Same-Sex Marriage, Eastern Africa
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Letters to the Editor - June 16
Finish the job of Medgar Evers To the editor: Mississippi’s tireless civil-rights worker, Medgar Evers, was killed 50 years ago. An assassin’s bullet mortally wounded Evers in front of his home, leaving a widow and depriving three...Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Business, Career and Workplace, U.S. Congress, Government
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Religious freedom under threat at home
On Friday, Catholics throughout the United States will begin observing two weeks known as the Fortnight for Freedom. For a second consecutive year, the U.S. Catholic Church has set aside this time leading up to Independence Day to draw attention to the...
Tags: Fines, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Freedom of Religion, William E. Lori, Basilica of the Assumption
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Iran president-elect carries reform hopes after routing hardliners
ReutersDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's new president, a moderate cleric known for his conciliatory nuclear talks with world powers, will take office carrying the hopes of reformists seeking less repression of social freedoms and a more pragmatic foreign policy. Hassan...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Minority Groups, Nuclear Policy, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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Hospital siege, blasts new Pakistan government's first security test
ReutersQUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants in a volatile region of western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women students on Saturday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors were taken, in the first major security test for the new prime minister,...Tags: Minority Groups, Government, Television Networks, Medical Specialization, Emergency Incidents
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