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Court: Managers don't have to ensure lunch breaks

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that employers are under no obligation to ensure that workers take legally mandated lunch breaks in a case that affects thousands of businesses and millions of workers....
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Court: Managers don't have to ensure lunch breaks

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that employers are under no obligation to ensure that workers take legally mandated lunch breaks in a case that affects thousands of businesses and millions of workers....
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Zimmerman back to jail; judge says he lied

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Trayvon Martin's shooter must return to jail, a judge ordered Friday in a strongly worded ruling that said George Zimmerman and his wife lied to the court about their finances to obtain bond in a case that hinges on jurors believing his account of what happened the night the teen was killed....
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Toy grenade prompts NYC office building evacuation

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
NEW YORK (AP) -- A gag grenade mounted on a plaque that said "Complaint department: Take a number" led to the evacuation Thursday of an office building near ground zero, and the employee responsible for it was put on administrative leave....
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Opponents of death penalty see momentum

Death penalty opponents said Thursday that this week's votes putting Connecticut on track to become the 17th state to abandon capital punishment shows that the long campaign against the death penalty is gaining serious momentum.

"The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty has been at it for 35 years, ...

Zimmerman appears in Fla. court

Suspect George Zimmerman made his first appearance in a Florida courtroom Thursday, the day after he was charged with second-degree murder in the racially charged shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin.

Mr. Zimmerman, flanked by a police officer and attorney Mark O'Mara, appeared calm and alert during the brief ...

From small-town Maine to Cherry Blossom royalty

Joan Boos - then known as Joan Lovering - moved from her small Maine town during World War II to Washington to help in the war effort. She was named one of the 48 original Cherry Blossom princesses for the Cherry Blossom Festival in 1948, just three years after the ...

2 slain USC students remembered by friends

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ming Qu was a day shy of his 24th birthday and had plans to return to China at the end of the semester to work....
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2 slain USC students remembered by friends

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ming Qu was a day shy of his 24th birthday and had plans to return to China at the end of the semester to work....
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2 slain USC students remembered by friends

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ming Qu was a day shy of his 24th birthday and had plans to return to China at the end of the semester to work....
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Bishops plea against obeying 'unjust laws'

A panel of the nation's Catholic bishops said Thursday that their flock "must have the courage not to obey unjust laws" and called for Catholic political leaders, clergy and laity to pray, fast and speak out for religious liberty during a two-week period that ends on Independence Day.

"What we ...

American Scene: Two Coast Guard members fatally shot at remote station

ALASKA

KODIAK — Two Coast Guard members were fatally shot at a communications station on an island off Alaska, officials said Thursday.

Officials said it remained unclear if the deaths at the Coast Guard station on Kodiak Island were a double homicide or murder-suicide. Capt. Jesse Moore said it was ...

Lawmaker presses Pentagon chief on US-Afghan pact

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee expressed serious concerns that the U.S.-Afghanistan deal giving Afghans authority over night raids could put Americans at greater risk and undercut intelligence gathering critical in the long war....
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Postmaster general visits potential closure sites

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
INGOMAR, Mont. (AP) -- The top U.S. Postal Service official on Thursday took his case for rural post office closures straight to those it will hurt most, telling residents in Montana's capital and one of its smallest towns that thousands of post offices nationwide must be shuttered to cut costs....
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Postmaster general visits potential closure sites

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
INGOMAR, Mont. (AP) -- The top U.S. Postal Service official on Thursday took his case for rural post office closures straight to those it will hurt most, telling residents in Montana's capital and one of its smallest towns that thousands of post offices nationwide must be shuttered to cut costs....
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Postmaster general visits potential closure sites

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
INGOMAR, Mont. (AP) -- The top U.S. Postal Service official on Thursday took his case for rural post office closures straight to those it will hurt most, telling residents in Montana's capital and one of its smallest towns that thousands of post offices nationwide must be shuttered to cut costs....
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See Dan read: Baboons can learn to spot real words

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dan the baboon sits in front of a computer screen. The letters BRRU pop up. With a quick and almost dismissive tap, the monkey signals it's not a word. Correct. Next comes, ITCS. Again, not a word. Finally KITE comes up....
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See Dan read: Baboons can learn to spot real words

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dan the baboon sits in front of a computer screen. The letters BRRU pop up. With a quick and almost dismissive tap, the monkey signals it's not a word. Correct. Next comes, ITCS. Again, not a word. Finally KITE comes up....
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Zimmerman attorney was Casey Anthony commentator

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- When Casey Anthony stood trial last summer in her toddler's death, Mark O'Mara became a familiar face on local television making daily critiques of prosecutors and defense attorneys in the world-famous case....
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Zimmerman attorney was Casey Anthony commentator

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:33
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- When Casey Anthony stood trial last summer in her toddler's death, Mark O'Mara became a familiar face on local television making daily critiques of prosecutors and defense attorneys in the world-famous case....
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