News | Guilty U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales pleaded guilty on June 5
to the premeditated murder of 16 Afghan civilians during a rampage
last year. Bales told a military judge, “There is not a good reason
in the world…
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Awarded President Barack Obama signed a bill May 24 to posthumously
award the Congressional Gold Medal to four African-American girls
killed in a 1963 bombing…
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Engaged Bethany Hamilton, 23, whose story was told in the 2011
movie
Soul Surfer
, has announced her engagement to a Hawaiian youth minister, Adam
Dirks.
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Died Country music legend George Jones, 81, died April 26 in
Nashville after a brief illness interrupted his ongoing tour.
Jones, who was often called the…
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Awarded President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to a
Korean War Army chaplain who tended to wounded soldiers in the
midst of intense enemy fire and…
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Died Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, known as the father of African
literature, died on March 21 at 82. Achebe was most famous for his
1958 work
Things Fall…
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Won Mitch Seavey, 53, became the oldest man to win Alaska’s
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Seavey, who won the competition in
2004, finished the 1,000-mile…
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Cured Doctors announced March 3 that a baby has been cured of HIV
for the first time. The Mississippi infant began receiving
antiviral treatment within 30…
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Died Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, 29, died Feb. 7 after undergoing a
late-term abortion by abortionist LeRoy Carhart at his Germantown,
Md., clinic. Carhart…
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Dismissed A U.S. District Court on Jan. 25 dismissed former
Democratic Rep. Steve Driehaus’ defamation suit against the Susan
B. Anthony List, a leading…
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Charged A federal court indicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray
Nagin, 56, on charges that he accepted bribes for personal gain
during the devastated…
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Returned Almost a year after suffering a major stroke, Sen. Mark
Kirk, R-Ill., returned to the Senate Jan. 3. Kirk, 53, was welcomed
up the Capitol steps by a…
