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Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and ...
Hagel Urges Cadets to End Scourge of Sex Assault
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel urged graduating West Point cadets to stamp out the scourge of harrassment and sexual assault in the military. He called the issue a "profound betrayal of sacred oaths and trusts". (May 25)
Prison is forced sabbatical for leader of Mo. band
A popular Grateful Dead tribute band from Missouri is taking a sabbatical — the result of a 30-month prison sentence for the lead singer. Jimmy Tebeau founded the Schwag in 1991. He's headed to prison next week after pleading guilty to a federal drug charge, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported ...
Iranian director facing jail appears in Cannes
"Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript — a topic the director, Mohammad Rasoulof, knows quite a bit about. Rasoulof is also Iranian, his movies are banned in his homeland and he's been sentenced to jail ...
Raw: Gay Rights Activists March in Ukraine
At least 50 gay rights activists marched peacefully in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on Saturday, despite a court ban and attempts to disrupt the event. Riot police prevented attempts to attack the marchers. (May 25)
Today in History May 25
Highlights of this day in history: "Star Wars" --- written and directed by George Lucas --- premieres; Former Enron execs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are convicted of conspiracy and fraud; Jay Leno begins as host of N-B-C's "The Tonight Show....
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it came to employment, housing or education, blacks had made no real gains. ...
News briefs from around Kentucky at 1:58 a.m. EDT
Feds pull plug on Ky. uranium plant and 1,000 jobs FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The operator of a Cold War-era plant in western Kentucky that supplies enriched uranium to nuclear power plants said Friday it planned to cease production after federal energy officials decided to end its work, putting more ...
Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81
Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movement and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81. The Washington Post reported he died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. In a statement to the ...
Toronto mayor denies he smokes crack cocaine
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict, breaking a week of silence over reports of a video purportedly showing him using the drug. Critics were not appeased, with one city councilor questioning whether the mayor told "the whole truth" and ...
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