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Incident occurred when officers allegedly saw the victim smoking marijuana

(CNN) -- New York police on Sunday identified the man fatally wounded the day earlier by officers a short walk from Manhattan's Times Square as a 51-year-old from nearby Long Island.


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White are nearly four times as likely to be pardoned as minorities; Blacks fared the worst

The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a request for proposals for its first-ever in-depth study of presidential pardons, providing fresh details on what it envisions the review will entail.


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Group included three soldiers who would later be convicted in the murder of Black couple

(CNN) -- When Wisconsin temple gunman Wade Michael Page arrived at Fort Bragg in 1995, the sprawling Army base in North Carolina already was home to a small number of white supremacists including three soldiers later convicted in the murder of an African-American couple.


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Photojournalists launch website to fight Philadelphia gun violence

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- Joe Kaczmarek's police scanner pops to life with chatter just before midnight. Moments later, "Kaz," as he's known, is rushing to the scene of a robbery near the Temple University campus alongside fellow veteran photojournalist Jim MacMillan.


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Bruce Davenport has been addressing the taboo topic the AIDS epidemic of the mid 1990s

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Sitting in his suede upholstered throne, Bruce Davenport preaches about a topic that might be considered too hot to talk about in church. On this particular day, Davenport, pastor of St. John No. 5 Faith Church, is holding forth on the subject of condoms -- the glow-in-the-dark kind.


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Meanwhile, Romney is avoiding tough questions about how he would tackle health care

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama, emboldened by the Supreme Court's affirmation of his health care overhaul, is now embracing the law while campaigning for re-election, just as Republican rival Mitt Romney steps back from it.


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Ex-felons face legal discrimination, which some contend is abritrary

SAN FRANCISCO – After trying unsuccessfully for eight years to find rental housing in Orange County following her release from state prison, Robin Keeble finally decided she had had enough.


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Senate report had claimed that Goldman misled its clients and Congress

(CNN) -- The Justice Department says after a "careful review" it has determined there is no basis for bringing a criminal prosecution against Goldman Sachs or its employees in regard to allegations set forth in a congressional report.


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Effort came after City Council rejected the establishment of at least one Latino voting district

ANAHEIM, California (CNN) -- As tensions roil between Latinos and city officials over accusations of police brutality, Hispanic activists will press the Anaheim City Council for a way to have at least one elected Latino to represent them, leaders said Thursday.


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Native Americans were huge chunks of South Dakota's corrections population in 2011

ROSEBUD, South Dakota (CNN) -- Whoever wins the 2012 U.S. presidential election faces multiple, serious problems in the U.S. prison system. One issue is the soaring prison population and its rising costs; but another is the issue over who makes up that population.


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