News

Baseball Writer To Be Honored By Hall Of Fame, But He's Out Of A Job

7:56am July 24, 2015

by David Greene

Baseball writer Tom Gage is being honored by the Hall of Fame for his long and illustrious career at The Detroit News. But he didn't leave his beat voluntarily. He recently lost his job at the paper.

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Members of the FBI Evidence Response Team investigate the shooting at the Armed Forces Career Center/National Guard Recruitment Office on July 17 in Chattanooga, Tenn. Since the shooting, armed civilians have begun trying to guard such centers.

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Army Warns Of 'Armed Citizens' Trying To Protect Recruiting Stations

7:44am July 24, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Vigilante guards — some associated with militia groups — have been appearing outside recruiting stations around the country, ostensibly to protect them in the wake of the Chattanooga shootings.

Arts

For More Than 30 Years, Comics Flock To Montreal Every July

5:55am July 24, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Montreal is home to the biggest and oldest international comedy festival in the world. Dave Chappelle, Mike Myers, Wanda Sykes and Kevin Hart are among the performers this year.

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A U.S. Air Force plane takes off as a Turkish air force fighter jet taxis at the Incirlik airbase, southern Turkey, in 2013. Reversing an earlier policy, Ankara has agreed to allow the U.S.-led coalition to fly anti-ISIS airstrikes from the base.

Turkey Agrees To Allow Use Of Its Soil For Airstrikes Against ISIS

11:55pm July 23, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Ankara has okayed allied airstrikes from its airbase near Syria against the self-declared Islamic State. State-run television also says Turkish warplanes have carried out air strikes.

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Official Watchdog Says He Needs Access To Sensitive Documents

9:12pm July 23, 2015

by Carrie Johnson

Michael Horowitz protests the Justice Department legal opinion that says DOJ officials decide what material he should get, and when.

Fisherman Bill Coppersmith named the rare lobster

Maine Fisherman Catches His Second Rare Lobster

8:23pm July 23, 2015

by Lucy Perkins

The Portland Press Herald reports that "Captain Eli," a rare orange lobster, will be kept at the Fisherman's Catch Café in Raymond, Maine, before Bill Coppersmith releases it back into the ocean.

The hand-colored photo, titled "Reclining young lady," is of Stella Osarhiere Gbinigie when she was 16.

An 80-Year-Old Looks Into The Eyes Of Her Teenage Self

8:05pm July 23, 2015

by Ina Yang

In 1950, a teenage girl in Nigeria put on her mother's fancy clothes and posed for a photo. In 2015, she had her first encounter with the original, hand-colored portrait.

The lab at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah failed to completely kill live samples of anthrax before sending it around the world.

Live Samples Of Anthrax Were Sent Worldwide In May Due To Ineffective Procedure

6:33pm July 23, 2015

by Lucy Perkins

NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports that the samples of anthrax the Pentagon thought were dead, were still alive. The Pentagon says the public was never at risk.

A guard motions to a medic (left) who arrived with a stretcher to Waller County Jail in Hempstead, Texas, on July 13, the day Sandra Bland died at the jail. Officials said Thursday that an autopsy did not find signs that Bland's death was a homicide.

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Autopsy Of Sandra Bland Doesn't Suggest Homicide, Texas County Officials Say

6:17pm July 23, 2015

by Bill Chappell

The prosecutors' presentation Thursday included several color photographs of Bland's body — including her neck, which had a thick dark line curving across it.

Iced tea made from local berries is served with melon and squares of sweet sticky rice topped with fruits and nuts. The nuns eat these sweets on head-shaving day, to replenish their energy.

Buddhist Diet For A Clear Mind: Nuns Preserve Art Of Korean Temple Food

6:01pm July 23, 2015

by Ari Shapiro

In South Korea, Buddhist temple food is viewed the way spa food is in the U.S.: curative, cleansing, perhaps even medicinal. Buddhist nuns have preserved these cooking techniques for 1,600 years.

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