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Dry NJ resort votes to stay that way, rejects BYOB

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The same disdain for alcohol that drove Christian clergymen to establish this Jersey shore town that calls itself America's Greatest Family Resort led voters to overwhelmingly reject a proposal Tuesday that would have let restaurant patrons bring their own wine or beer to enjoy with dinner....
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Dry NJ resort votes to stay that way, rejects BYOB

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Voters in a dry New Jersey seaside community that calls itself America's Greatest Family Resort have decided to stay that way, rejecting a proposal that would have let restaurant patrons bring their own wine or beer to enjoy with dinner....
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House spares Pentagon, homeland security from cuts

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans controlling the House are sparing the Pentagon, military veterans and most homeland security programs from the budget knife as action begins on a set of spending bills setting the day-to-day budgets for federal agencies....
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Officials: Al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA had al-Qaida fooled from the beginning....
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'Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood....
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'Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood....
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VIDEO: CIA Catches Itself in New Underwear Bomb Plot

TruthNews.US - News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
Infowars.com | The entire terror plot story has once again collapsed into a farce, with the would-be bomber himself an admitted CIA informant.

Border Patrol adapting to new threats

Just eight months after Defense Department officials complained in a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that there was "no comprehensive Southwest border security strategy" in place, the U.S. Border Patrol unveiled a new strategy Tuesday that relies on helicopters and unmanned aerial drones and targets repeat offenders.

Recognizing that it ...

Doctor: Chest compression led to CA homeless death

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A trauma surgeon said Tuesday that continuous compression of a California homeless man's chest during a confrontation with police officers caused breathing problems that led to his death....
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GOP takes turn crafting women anti-abuse bill

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans on Tuesday advanced their own version of an election-year bill to protect women from violence....
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American Scene: LEDs mean full rainbow for Empire State Building

NEW YORK — The Empire State Building will replace its tower lights with a computer-driven LED system that allows for nearly endless color combinations.

The iconic skyscraper's owner is partnering with Massachusetts-based Philips Color Kinetics to install the new light fixtures.

The top of the building is bathed in an ...

Mother, wife of kidnapping-slaying suspect arrested

GUNTOWN, Miss. — The net widened in the case of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls.

On Tuesday, authorities charged man's wife and mother in connection with the abduction.

As an intense manhunt for Adam Mayes ...

Georgetown catches flak for Sebelius invite

In what has become an annual tradition, another Catholic university has come under fire for its choice of commencement speaker.

Georgetown University, the oldest Jesuit institution in the nation, is taking heat for inviting Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, a Catholic, to address the school's Public Policy Institute ...

GOP takes turn crafting women anti-abuse bill

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans have advanced their version of the Violence Against Women Act, and it's different than the version passed by the Democratic-controlled Senate....
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Doctor: Chest compression led to CA homeless death

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A trauma surgeon said Tuesday that continuous compression of a California homeless man's chest during a confrontation with police officers caused breathing problems that led to his death....
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30-minute defense in Hudson family murder trial

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
CHICAGO (AP) -- The man accused of killing three of Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's relatives did not take the stand, and his attorneys put on a mere 30-minute defense Tuesday, calling two detectives in a bid to suggest they botched the 2008 investigation....
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Officials: Al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA had al-Qaida fooled from the beginning....
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PCWorld: "DOJ Says Requiring Warrant for Cell Phone Tracking Would 'Cripple' Law Enforcement"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34

PCWorld: DOJ Says Requiring Warrant for Cell Phone Tracking Would 'Cripple' Law Enforcement by Darlene Storm:

If your mobile phone is on then it is constantly pinging cell phone network towers, leaving you no choice about revealing your location. The ACLU warned the "threat to personal privacy presented by this technology is breathtaking," especially since the "government is routinely violating American's privacy rights through warrantless cell phone tracking." Apparently any mobile phone privacy is too much privacy in the early stages of an investigation, before law enforcement actually has any proof that a person has done anything illegal. An Obama administration official told a congressional panel that requiring a search warrant to obtain cell phone location tracking information would "cripple" law enforcement and prosecutors.

Calif. man charged with killing girlfriend, 2 sons

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 01:34
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) -- The blood-stained carpet was the first clue Arlet Contreras and her two young sons had not just abandoned their apartment in a gated Orange County complex....
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