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Detroit studio gets historic marker after facing demolition
A legendary recording studio in Detroit that once welcomed artists such as Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis has received a historic marker just four years after being targeted for demolition. United Sound Systems installed the approximately $5,000 sign last week after the Detroit Sound Conservancy helped
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Pharmacy boss blamed for meningitis outbreak gets 9 years
The co-owner of a pharmacy deemed responsible for the deaths of 76 people in a national meningitis outbreak tearfully apologized to the victims on Monday and was sentenced to nine years in prison, far less than the victims had wanted. "I'm sorry for your extraordinary losses," Barry Cadden
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Mexico to seek FBI's help on government spying probe
Mexico's attorney general said on Monday it will request help from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate accusations the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto spied on private citizens. Activists, human rights lawyers and journalists in Mexico filed a criminal complaint
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Armed Services panel chairman seeks $696 billion DOD budget
Declaring the U.S. military in dire need of rebuilding, an influential House committee chairman pressed his case Monday for $696 billion defence budget in 2018 — more military spending than at any point during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Rep. Mac Thornberry of Texas, who heads the Armed Services
NewsReutersSupreme Court breathes new life into Trump's travel ban
By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by reviving parts of a travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries that he said is needed for national security but that opponents decry as discriminatory
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Town limits councilman's broadcast of taps over loudspeaker
A Pennsylvania town councilman who broadcasts taps at his home through loudspeakers every night must limit the activity. The Glen Rock Borough Council voted Wednesday to restrict Councilman Joshua Corney's broadcast of the song to Sunday nights and to certain flag holidays like the Fourth of July
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'Like bombs': Bankrupt company's air bags still out there
Takata's lethally defective air bags proved to be the company's undoing Monday. A small part of Takata will continue to manufacture replacements for the faulty air bag inflators. The problem, though, is that 100 million of the Takata inflators worldwide have been recalled, 69 million in the
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President's media strategy creating friction
White House press secretary Sean Spicer's briefing with reporters turned testy on Monday, with CNN's Jim Acosta interrupting President Donald Trump's chief spokesman to demand he explain why television cameras were ordered off. Spicer has been one of the most visible media personalities
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Philando Castile's family reaches $3M settlement in death
The mother of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer last July, has reached a nearly $3 million settlement with the city that employed the officer, avoiding a federal wrongful death lawsuit that attorneys said could have taken years to resolve. The settlement to be paid
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Rocket engine plant announced for Alabama by Bezos' company
A private spaceflight company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos plans to build a powerful new rocket engine in Alabama for space flight, the company and state officials announced Monday. Blue Origin President Robert Meyerson said his company is seeking a production contract with United Launch Alliance
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Case of gay couple's wedding cake heads to Supreme Court
A Colorado clash between gay rights and religion started as an angry Facebook posting about a wedding cake but now has big implications for anti-discrimination laws in 22 states. Baker Jack Phillips is challenging a Colorado law that says he was wrong to have turned away a same-sex couple who wanted
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Trump travel ban partly reinstated; fall court arguments set
The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to forge ahead with a limited version of his ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries to the U.S. Trump hailed the decision as a "victory for national security," but it's likely to set off a new round of court disputes over anti-terror
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Not quite warp speed: Speeding man had alien doll passenger
Police say a motorcycle officer who stopped a driver for speeding on a suburban highway north of Atlanta had an 'extraterrestrial encounter' — sort of. George Gordon, a spokesman for police in Alpharetta, says that when the officer pulled the man over Sunday, a life-sized doll of a big-eyed,
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Man convicted of 2nd-degree murder in killing of Baby Doe
A man was convicted Monday of murder in the death of a 2-year-old girl who became known as Baby Doe after her remains washed up on the shore of a Boston Harbor island. Michael McCarthy was charged in the 2015 killing of Bella Bond, his girlfriend's daughter. A computer-generated image of the girl
NewsReutersTrump, Modi seek rapport despite friction on trade, immigration
By Steve Holland and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for the first time on Monday, seeking to develop a warm relationship despite differences over trade, immigration and the Paris climate accord. As they met, a Pentagon
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Promised college loan forgiveness, borrowers wait and wait
Danielle Ramos' student-debt nightmare was supposed to be over. Like thousands of others who studied at failed for-profit colleges, she was promised by the U.S. Education Department under President Barack Obama that her federal loans would be forgiven by now. Borrower advocates say the pipeline
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9 still missing after tourist boat sinks in Colombia
Scuba divers on Monday continued their search for bodies from a submerged boat in Colombia as authorities turned their attention to what led the tourist ferry to sink with more than 150 passengers on board, leaving at least seven people dead and nine missing. Prosecutors were treating the wreckage site
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Prosecutors use Joe Arpaio's immigration talk against him
Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's criminal trial opened Monday over his defiance of the courts in traffic patrols that targeted immigrants, marking the most aggressive effort to hold the former lawman of metro Phoenix accountable for tactics that critics say racially profiled Latinos. In opening arguments
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The Latest: Audit says Senate bill would leave 22m uninsured
The Senate health care bill would result in 22 million more uninsured Americans over the next decade compared to current law. The figure may further complicate Senate GOP leaders' plans to pass their bill this week. It's barely an improvement upon the health care bill that passed the House
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Trump eager for big meeting with Putin; some advisers wary
President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational summit next month. Many administration officials believe the U.S. needs to maintain its distance from Russia at such a sensitive time — and
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Pepe lives: Cartoonist resurrecting frog hijacked by trolls
Pepe the Frog is coming back from the dead. Los Angeles-based cartoonist Matt Furie told The Associated Press on Monday that he intends to resurrect the character he killed off last month in what appeared to be a rebuke to racist, anti-Semitic internet trolls who hijacked his creation, transforming
NewsReutersMay offers to protect benefits of EU citizens living in Britain
By Elizabeth Piper and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled details of her plan to protect the rights of EU nationals living in Britain on Monday, saying the government would work to offer them largely the same benefits as British citizens. An agreement on the post-Brexit
NewsReutersSearch continues for missing after Colombia tourist boat accident
Rescue workers searched on Monday for 13 people believed to be missing after a tourist boat sank the previous day in a reservoir in north-central Colombia, killing seven. The cause of the accident was still unclear, officials said. The boat, El Almirante, was carrying about 150 passengers, officials
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Supreme Court rules for Missouri church in playground case
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that churches have the same right as other charitable groups to seek state money for new playground surfaces and other nonreligious needs. By a 7-2 vote, the justices sided with Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri, which had sought a state grant to put a soft
NewsReutersUK's May strikes $1.3 billion deal with Northern Irish party to prop up government
By Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May struck a deal on Monday to prop up her minority government by agreeing to at least 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in extra funding for Northern Ireland in return for the support of the province's biggest Protestant
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