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Priest in Pa. case: 'You don't say no' to cardinal

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A priest assigned to help handle child sex-abuse complaints at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia told jurors Tuesday that Monsignor William Lynn was the only other person who could have created a typed list of suspected pedophile priests....
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Priest in Pa. case: 'You don't say no' to cardinal

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A priest assigned to help handle child sex-abuse complaints at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia told jurors Tuesday that Monsignor William Lynn was the only other person who could have created a typed list of suspected pedophile priests....
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2010 census missed more than 1.5M minorities

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The 2010 census missed more than 1.5 million minorities after struggling to count black Americans, Hispanics, renters and young men, but was mostly accurate, the government said Tuesday....
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Commercial craft speeds toward space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship financed by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular, middle-of-the-night blastoff.

The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon capsule ...

Reno air show to alter course to make it safer

RENO, Nev. — Organizers of the national air racing championships secured $100 million in necessary insurance and announced plans Tuesday to change the September race course for the fastest planes to keep them farther from spectators after last year's mass-casualty crash near a grandstand.

Reno Air Racing Association Director Mike ...

Big kahuna of channel surfing dies

CHICAGO | Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity.

Just ask anyone who's lost a ...

APNewsBreak: Franciscan files tell abuse story

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Thousands of pages of confidential files for nine Franciscan friars accused of molestation tell the story of systemic abuse with the Roman Catholic religious order dating back decades....
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CBO warns of US falling off 'fiscal cliff'

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new government study released Tuesday says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts to take effect would probably throw the economy into a recession....
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Senate panel votes to cut aid for Pakistan, Egypt

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a fresh warning to Pakistan, a Senate panel on Tuesday approved a foreign aid budget for next year that slashes President Barack Obama's request for assistance to Islamabad by more than half and threatens further reductions if it fails to open supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan....
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Passenger's suspicious claim diverts jet to Maine

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- A US Airways jet traveling from Paris to North Carolina was diverted to Maine on Tuesday after a French passenger handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, raising fears of a terror scenario that security officials had warned about....
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Commercial spacecraft speeds toward space station

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular middle-of-the-night blastoff....
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Senate panel approves airline security fee hike

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic-controlled Senate panel Tuesday approved a $2.50 increase in airline security fees that would double the per-passenger fee for those taking nonstop flights....
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2010 census missed more than 1.5M minorities

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The 2010 census missed more than 1.5 million minorities after struggling to count black Americans, Hispanics, renters and young men, but was mostly accurate, the government said Tuesday....
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CA5: State's attempt to remove a house now on a beach because of Hurricane Rita was an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment

FourthAmendment.com - News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56

The State of Texas claimed a beach easement on plaintiff’s beachfront property following Hurricane Rita which moved the vegetation line back and put the house on the beach. The State's effort to remove the house was a Fourth Amendment violation. Severance v. Patterson, 07-20409 (5th Cir. May 21, 2012) (per curiam):

The Texas Supreme Court answered our certified questions in this case, see Severance v. Patterson, 566 F.3d 490, 503-04 (5th Cir. 2009), by declaring that Texas law does not recognize a “rolling easement” created by avulsive events affecting the dry beach of Galveston’s West Beach. Severance v. Patterson, No. 09-0387, Tex S.Ct. April 19, 2012, op. on reh. For the panel majority, this answer reifies the claim of appellant Severance to an “unreasonable” seizure violative of the Fourth Amendment in the State’s assertion of an easement (and related regulatory violations) on her beachfront property following Hurricane Rita. (Judge Wiener continues to dissent on this portion of the prior and present dispositions.)

Because the potential existence of this constitutional claim is now confirmed, the district court’s judgment against Severance predicated on Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) and (6) must be reversed.

Reno Air Races plans to change course this fall

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-16 18:56
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Organizers of the national air racing championships secured $100 million in necessary insurance and announced plans Tuesday to change the September race course for the fastest planes to keep them farther from spectators after last year's mass-casualty crash near a grandstand....
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Serial-stabbings suspect found guilty of murder in Mich.

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally stabbing five men and wounding nine others in and around a Michigan city two summers ago was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the first case to go to trial.

Jurors rejected the insanity defense put forth for Elias Abuelazam, finding ...

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