Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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Federal civil rights charges could be brought against the ex-neighborhood watch man after his acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.
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Demonstrators clashed with police in Los Angeles, while others carried pictures of Martin or wore hoodies as he was wearing when the unarmed black teenager died.
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The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald says the NSA leaker doesn’t want the documents on how the agency operates to be made public yet.
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Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi says the people wanted the Islamist leader removed as a deputy U.S. secretary of state headed to Egypt to meet with interim leaders.
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Congress is talking today about having a simple majority approve presidential nominees, rather than a 60-vote threshold that often stalls nominations.
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‘Gleeks’ mourned , found dead in a Vancouver hotel room this weekend, at a fan convention by singing his popular songs from the hit TV series.
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Ghulam Azam, 91, was sentenced to 90 years in jail for crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war.
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Asiana says San Francisco’s KTVU-TV damaged its reputation by publishing false and offensive names for four pilots on the plane that crashed.
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Chulalongkorn University says the banner that showcased Hitler along with superheroes was painted by ignorant students who didn’t realize the image would offend anyone.
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Star sprinters Asafa Powell, Tyson Gay and Sherone Simpson all fail drug tests.
