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STRIP Act targets TSA uniform: End 'impersonation' of 'real cops'
Nation NowA lawmaker has introduced the STRIP Act, or Stop TSA's Reach In Policy Act to prevent airport screeners from wearing law enforcement uniforms and police-like metal badge and calling themselves officers unless they receive law enforcement training.... -
Jon Bon Jovi dead? This Internet hoax just won't die
Nation NowJon Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi dead continues to be the No. 1 search trend on Google, even though the New Jersey rocker continues to insist that he is alive and well -- and says that Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.... -
Joe Morris Sr. dies at 85; Navajo code talker during World War II
"My weapon was my language," World War II Marine veteran Joe Morris Sr. told a crowd of nearly 200 in a San Bernardino park on Veterans Day in 2004. "We saved a lot of lives."
Morris, one of the Navajo code talkers whose use of their native language in...Tags: George W. Bush, Politics, Saint Petersberg (Russia), Veterans Day, Awards and Prizes
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Man arrested in White House shooting has 'interest' in Obama
Nation NowWhite House arrest: The man detailed in connection with a bullet hole found in a White House window reportedly had an "interest" in President Obama, raising questions about whether the suspect was targeting the president.... -
Occupy Las Vegas is unusually cooperative, i.e. tourist-friendly
Nation NowOccupy Las Vegas: In contrast to other Occupy Wall Street offshoots, Occupy Las Vegas has embraced a more congenial type of protest.... -
Legendary astronauts awarded Congressional Gold Medals
Nation NowSpace legends John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were awarded Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday.... -
Ticket Replay: Finally, female World War II pilots get their due
Top of the TicketA Congressional gold medal for 200 women who flew as military pilots during the war.... -
Violet Cowden dies at 94; civilian WASP aviator during World War II
Violet Cowden never lost her love of flying, a passion born when she was a young girl envying the hawks soaring above her family's South Dakota farm in the 1920s.
When she was a young first-grade teacher learning to fly out of an airfield in Spearfish,...Tags: Heart Failure, U.S. Army, Documentary (genre), Air and Aviation Sports, Armed Forces
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Jefferson Thomas dies at 67; one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School
Jefferson Thomas, one of nine students who in 1957 integrated a Little Rock, Ark., high school, a turning point for the civil rights movement, has died. He was 67.
Thomas, who lived much of his adult life in Los Angeles, died Sunday of pancreatic...Tags: Family, Minority Groups, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Vietnam, Diseases and Illnesses
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Dorothy Height dies at 98; civil rights leader fought for women's, children's issues
Dorothy Height, who was called the queen mother of the civil rights movement through seven decades of advocacy for racial equality — including 41 years as president of the National Council of Negro Women — has died. She was 98.
Height, who...Tags: New York University, Oprah Winfrey, Bayard Rustin, Documentary (genre), Family
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Lee A. Archer dies at 90; Tuskegee Airman was ace pilot
Associated PressRetired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot, who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company and founder of a venture capital firm, died Wednesday in New York City. He was...Tags: George W. Bush, New York University, U.S. Army, Armed Forces, Death
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Norman Borlaug dies at 95; revolutionized grain agriculture and won Nobel Peace Prize
Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution" who is widely credited with saving millions of lives by breeding wheat, rice and other crops that brought agricultural self-sufficiency to developing countries around the world, died Saturday in Texas....Tags: University of Minnesota, Awards and Prizes, Agricultural Research and Technology, Social Issues, Forestry and Timber
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