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Marine takes over as U.S. commander in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. took over Sunday as the newest and probably last U.S. commander in Afghanistan, tasked with ending America’s longest war even as insurgents continue to challenge the U.S.-backed Afghan...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Polio
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New ‘Assassin’s Creed’ hero, new time period, coming soon
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThe next installment of “Assassin's Creed” will come out by April 2014, and will take place in a new time ...... -
Sen. Daniel Inouye dies at 88; war hero
When Daniel K. Inouye was 17, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. An aspiring surgeon, he spent much of the next week helping care for the wounded at an elementary school in his native Honolulu. He wanted to enlist immediately but couldn't. Japanese...
Tags: Elections, Weaponry, Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes, U.S. Army, Barack Obama
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Hillary Clinton expected to make full recovery from blood clot
WASHINGTON – The blood clot that led to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s hospitalization on Sunday is lodged in a vein behind her right ear, her doctors disclosed in a statement late Monday. The doctors said the clot, called a...
Tags: Thrombosis , John Kerry, Flu, Stroke, Concussion
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Group aims to restore 1915 schoolhouse, teach local history inside
When Martha Forth first saw the one-room rural schoolhouse where she would land her first teaching job in 1938, her heart sank. "I thought, I can't do this," recalled Forth, then 23 and a university graduate with a teaching credential from USC. The...
Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Arts and Culture
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Crime and punishment in California
After decades of prison planning work in California and across the country, I've seen two prevailing assumptions about crime and punishment finally begin to crack amid years of real-world testing. The first is that prisons are the primary way to...
Tags: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Elections, Laws, Los Angeles Police Department, Crime, Law and Justice
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Guns don't protect freedom; the Constitution does
"Happiness is a warm gun," wrote John Lennon, 12 years before being gunned down in front of his New York apartment building by a madman armed with a .38 special. Lennon, of course, was being ironic, but there's no trace of irony being exhibited by another...
Tags: Minority Groups, Interior Policy, Chick-fil-A, Inc., Career and Workplace, Wars and Interventions
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Review: 'The Abolitionists' shows the people who led to Lincoln
Even as he helped orchestrate the American Revolution and the creation of modern democracy, John Adams worried that the framers of history, more interested in portraiture than landscape, would choose one or two individuals — Benjamin Franklin,...
Tags: Tony Kushner, Lincoln (movie, 2012), Entertainment Events, Abraham Lincoln, Steven Spielberg
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Romney spends big with aides' firms
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSMitt Romney's campaign has directed $134.2 million to political firms with business ties to his senior staff, spotlighting the tightknit nature of his second presidential bid and the staggering sums being spent in this election. Nine firms that are run...Tags: Polls, Al Gore, Elections, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Cuban missile crisis myth constrains today's diplomatic standoffs
World NowGlobal Focus: Fifty years after the superpowers were poised to annihilate each other over nuclear missiles sent to Cuba, the myth prevails that President Kennedy forced Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to back down by threatening to unleash nuclear war.... -
Attorneys for Chinese premier's family hit back at report on wealth
World NowBEIJING -- Attorneys for family members of China’s prime minister hit back over the weekend at the New York Times, calling the newspaper’s report about wealth amassed by Wen Jiabao’s family “untrue” and suggesting they may... -
Russell Means dies at 72; American Indian rights activist, actor
Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in...
Tags: Larry Flynt, Health Treatments, The Washington Post, Indigenous People, Martin Luther King Jr.
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