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Supporters of Fla. shooter fearful of speaking out

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
Trayvon Martin's supporters pack churches, swarm rallies and wear hooded sweat shirts in solidarity while friends and family of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed teen to death, remain largely out of sight. The few who have defended Zimmerman have done so reluctantly, most fearing public backlash....
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Supporters of Fla. shooter fearful of speaking out

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
Trayvon Martin's supporters pack churches, swarm rallies and wear hooded sweat shirts in solidarity while friends and family of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed teen to death, remain largely out of sight. The few who have defended Zimmerman have done so reluctantly, most fearing public backlash....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Supporters of Fla. shooter fearful of speaking out

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
Trayvon Martin's supporters pack churches, swarm rallies and wear hooded sweat shirts in solidarity while friends and family of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed teen to death, remain largely out of sight. The few who have defended Zimmerman have done so reluctantly, most fearing public backlash....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Supporters of Fla. shooter fearful of speaking out

Trayvon Martin's supporters pack churches, swarm rallies and wear hooded sweat shirts in solidarity while friends and family of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed teen to death, remain largely out of sight. The few who have defended Zimmerman have done so reluctantly, most fearing public ...

Lawyer: Afghan suspect had depression after Iraq

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- The U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians suffered a traumatic incident during his second tour in Iraq that triggered "tremendous depression," his lawyer said Wednesday....
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Body of 4-year-old Arkansas boy found in river

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Searchers found the body of a 4-year-old boy Wednesday in the river at an Arkansas Boy Scout camp where he was tagging along with his aunt last weekend....
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Body of 4-year-old Arkansas boy found in river

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Searchers found the body of a 4-year-old boy Wednesday in the river at an Arkansas Boy Scout camp where he was tagging along with his aunt last weekend....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Body of 4-year-old Arkansas boy found in river

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Searchers found the body of a 4-year-old boy Wednesday in the river at an Arkansas Boy Scout camp where he was tagging along with his aunt last weekend....
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Video shows handcuffed FL shooter Zimmerman

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- A security video shot after the slaying of Trayvon Martin shows admitted shooter George Zimmerman being led in handcuffs from a police car, and an attorney for the teen's family said it is obvious to him that Zimmerman did not have injuries to his face and head as his supporters have asserted....
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What to do after you hit the Mega Millions jackpot

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
With a half-billion-dollar multistate lottery jackpot up for grabs, plenty of folks are fantasizing about how to spend the money. But doing it the right way - protecting your riches, your identity and your sanity - takes some thought and planning....
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What to do after you hit the Mega Millions jackpot

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
With a half-billion-dollar multistate lottery jackpot up for grabs, plenty of folks are fantasizing about how to spend the money. But doing it the right way - protecting your riches, your identity and your sanity - takes some thought and planning....
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Lawmaker chastised for wearing hoodie in House

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie during a speech on the House floor Wednesday deploring the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, receiving a reprimand for violating rules on wearing hats in the House chamber....
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GOP-run House easily rejects bipartisan budget

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has voted to decisively reject a bipartisan budget mixing tax increases with spending cuts to wring $4 trillion from federal deficits over the coming decade....
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APNewsBreak: Likely insider attack kills US troop

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the latest likely case of an insider attack, an American service member was killed and several others injured Monday when individuals dressed in Afghan police uniforms turned their guns on them in southern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said....
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Amazon CEO wants to raise sunken Apollo 11 engines

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- For more than four decades, the powerful engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now Internet billionaire and space enthusiast Jeff Bezos wants to raise at least one of them to the surface....
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PepsiCo denies accusations on link to aborted fetal cells

So far, researchers using aborted fetal cell lines haven't been able to cure paralysis or reverse the effects of Parkinson's disease, but they may be able to make diet sodas taste better.

PepsiCo has come under intense pressure from pro-life groups for contracting with Senomyx Inc., a San Diego biotech ...

JetBlue pilot held for evaluation for midair meltdown

RICHMOND HILL, Ga. — A JetBlue Airways captain who sprinted through the cabin of a Las Vegas-bound flight screaming about terrorists, Jesus and Sept. 11 was charged Wednesday with interfering with a flight crew, federal authorities said.

Capt. Clayton Osbon told his co-pilot that "things just don't matter" shortly ...

American Scene: Miami judge rules for 'stand your ground'

FLORIDA

MIAMI — A judge has dismissed a murder charge against a man who chased and fatally stabbed a theft suspect, citing the same self-defense law at the center of the Trayvon Martin case.

The "stand your ground" law gives a lot of leeway to use deadly force instead ...

Adrienne Rich, feminist poet and essayist, dies

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- Poet Adrienne Rich, whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82....
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Plow driver, wife charged in Vt. teacher's death

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 07:24
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- A Vermont snowplow driver who wanted to "get a girl" was accused Wednesday along with his wife of luring a popular prep school teacher from her home by pretending their vehicle had broken down, beating and strangling her, stripping her body naked and throwing it into the Connecticut River....
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