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Although Florida was the first, 24 other states enforce similar versions

The Stand Your Ground law is most widely associated with the Feb. 26 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old killed in Florida by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain who claimed he was acting in self-defense.


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Inside a prostitution sting operation

ANAHEIM, California (CNN) -- It feels odd to be in a car sat next to a guy texting a pimp. Even more odd, he's pretending to be a prostitute. It can all get a little strange in the digital pursuit of human traffickers.


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More young people expressing doubts than at any time since Pew started asking question

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The percentage of Americans 30 and younger who harbor some doubts about God's existence appears to be growing quickly, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. While most young Americans, 68%, told Pew they never doubt God's existence, that's a 15-point drop in just five years.


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People out of work for more than six months make up 42.8 percent of unemployed

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- We all know by now that it's hard for the long-term unemployed to get back into the workforce. But just how hard is it? Economists at the San Francisco Federal Reserve put a number on the odds.


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President urged lawmakers to require students to stay in school until graduation or age 18

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- President Barack Obama's call for states to raise the minimum age at which students can drop out of high school seems about as popular as a homework assignment on Friday afternoon.


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Jobless must get in-person assessment if they want federal unemployment checks

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Millions of jobless Americans now have another hurdle to pass before collecting federal unemployment benefits.


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Obama administration eases stance towards undocumented immigrants who entered as children

(CNN) -- Zelaya was electrified by news that the Obama administration would stop deporting illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children if they met certain requirements.


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Prosecutors said calls were aimed at keeping Black voters from the polls

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A campaign consultant was led out of a courtroom in handcuffs Wednesday after he was sentenced to 60 days in jail for conspiring to send Election Day robocalls that prosecutors said were aimed at keeping Black voters from the polls.


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African-Americans remain the racial group most acutely affected by the epidemic

When HIV/AIDS was thought of as a White, gay disease, it was often the suffering of Black patients that helped the world realize that it could affect anyone. Today, African-Americans remain the racial group most acutely affected by the epidemic.


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Civil rights group says move would be unpopular but will base decision on legal precedent

(CNN) -- Having been denied participation in a Georgia's adopt-a-highway program, a local Ku Klux Klan chapter has turned to the American Civil Liberties Union for help. And the civil rights organization may represent the group.

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The Skanner Foundation's 38th Annual MLK Breakfast