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Details: Written by Emily Masters, Bruce Smith, Associated Press; Published: 28 June 2015

Bree Newsome and James Ian Tyson charged with defacing monuments on state capitol grounds

Details: Written by Mark Sherman, Associated Press; Published: 25 June 2015

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, June 25, 2015, in Washington, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the subsidies for customers in states that do not operate their own exchanges under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A 6-3 ruling declares subsidies should not depend on where the recipients live

Details: Written by Sam Hananel, Associated Press; Published: 25 June 2015

The Supreme Court handed a major victory to the Obama administration and civil rights groups on Thursday when it upheld a key tool used for more than four decades to fight housing discrimination.

Supreme Court rules 5-4 that federal housing laws prohibit seemingly neutral practices that harm minorities

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Details: Written by Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press; Published: 25 June 2015

President's trade pact aims to strengthen US's influence and trading clout in Pacific rim countries

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 24 June 2015

A medical examiner ruled Freddie Gray's death a homicide from a deadly injury during his ride in a police van

Details: Written by Ken Thomas, Associated Press; Published: 20 June 2015

A progressive Democrat who tells it as he sees it, Sanders doesn't use polls to decide his message

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Details: Written by Jason Keyser, Associated Press; Published: 20 June 2015

Judge says his gut feeling is that, "these shots never would have been fired if the kids in the car were white,"

Details: Written by Vivian Salama Bram Janssen, Associated Press; Published: 20 June 2015

To feed his hungry family a 30-year-old father takes to smuggling cigarettes. In the Islamic State caliphate that's a crime that could get him executed

Details: Written by Nicole Winfield, Rachel Zoll, Seth Borenstein, Associated Press; Published: 18 June 2015

Pope's encyclical challenges the world to stop polluting and curb materialism

Details: Written by Abdullah Al-Shihri, Aya Batrawy, Associated Press; Published: 18 June 2015

Ramadan marked by prayer dawn to dusk fasting and nightly feasts

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