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Iraqi premier orders army shake-up after attacks
Iraq's prime minister has ordered a shake-up of his military command after a weeklong spike of militant attacks that has killed nearly 300 people, by far the highest toll since the U.S. withdrew its forces in late 2011, an official said Wednesday. The shake-up will include commanders of divisions and ...
LA voters back measure to cap number of pot shops
Los Angeles voters have approved a proposition limiting the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city. With all precincts reporting Wednesday, Proposition D had around 63 percent of the votes in Tuesday's election. Two competing measures to regulate medical pot sales lost by around the same margin. Proposition D ...
Beaumont votes to ban medical marijuana shops
A Riverside County city has become the latest to try banning medical marijuana dispensaries in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling permitting prohibition. The Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/181RGW6 ) says the Beaumont City Council approved a ban Tuesday night. A second vote is needed before the measure can take ...
Czech president settles dispute over gay rights
The Czech president says he will no longer block a university professorship for a gay rights activist who had been critical of him. Milos Zeman has been under fire after suggesting over the weekend that his reason for denying the promotion to Charles University literary historian Martin C. Putna was ...
Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down
With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time." Parents had a gut-wrenching choice, and only a few minutes to ...
Japan approves joining int'l child abduction pact
Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign pressure for Tokyo to address concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse. The upper house of parliament voted unanimously to join the 1980 Hague Convention on international child abduction following passage ...
Republican divisions may hinder party's momentum
A string of unrelated events is highlighting divisions among Republicans just when they'd like to show a united front and take full advantage of President Barack Obama's latest political problems. Tensions between libertarian-leaning and more mainstream Republicans were on vivid display Tuesday as Sens. Rand Paul and John McCain clashed ...
Wyoming teen pregnancy rates decline
Wyoming's teen birthrate dropped by nearly 15 percent between 2007 and 2012, but officials are unclear as to why. Ashley Busacker is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wyoming assignee. She says the decline could be because of strong pregnancy prevention messages or increased use of birth control. Her ...
Afghan students protest women's rights decree
Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It was the latest sign of a backlash against the legal protections passed in the 12 years since the toppling of the Taliban regime known for ...
600 police photos of Tucson rampage scene released
In the chaotic moments after a gunman wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, investigators quickly turned a patrol car into a makeshift whiteboard, using markers to scrawl relevant information about the investigation. By the end of the day, the car was covered with details on the man who carried out the rampage, ...
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