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Black history museum to break ground with Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new national museum telling the history of black life, art, and culture will soon begin taking shape as the 19th museum in the Smithsonian Institution to explore stories that have sometimes been left out on the National Mall....
Wounded vets regain bit of camaraderie in kitchen
HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Julio Gerena is in a wheelchair, his long career in the U.S. Navy and Army forever behind him. But the 52-year-old recaptured some of the old military camaraderie while peeling potatoes and chopping cilantro in a crowded kitchen....
NYPD built secret files on NJ, Long Island mosques
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city's mayor says he was kept in the dark....
Clinton heads abroad to push Syria diplomacy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to ramp up diplomatic efforts against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime on a trip to North Africa this week, as some countries begin to explore the possibility of arming Syria's rebels....
AP source: Obama seeks 28 percent corp. tax rate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Laying down an election-year marker in the debate over taxes, the Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and to seek an even lower effective rate for manufacturers, a senior administration official says....
NYPD monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage
NEW YORK (AP) -- The mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Tuesday over an effort by the city's police department to monitor Muslim student groups for any signs that their members harbored terrorist sympathies....
11 children removed from Texas home in abuse case
DAYTON, Texas (AP) -- Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds....
Texas man guilty in sexual assault of ex-neighbor
WEATHERFORD, Texas (AP) -- A Texas man who abducted his former neighbor and tortured the woman while holding her captive for nearly two weeks was convicted Tuesday....
Ex-LA teacher pleads not guilty to lewd acts
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former teacher whose arrest sparked a scandal at an elementary school that led to the replacement of all of its teachers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to committing lewd acts with 23 children in his classroom....
Sugarland attorneys: Injured Ind. fans share blame
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Attorneys for country duo Sugarland said concertgoers were at least partly to blame for injuries suffered in a stage collapse, drawing a sharp reaction from fans Tuesday and prompting the band's manager to issue a statement criticizing the finger-pointing....
