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The New Jersey Assembly voted on Monday to ban so-called conversion therapy, taking a step toward becoming the second U.S. state to prohibit licensed therapists from counseling gay and lesbian youths to change their sexual orientation.The bill passed by a 56-14 vote, with seven abstentions, and it was expected to be adopted by the state Senate in a vote on Thursday.Governor Chris Christie in March...
BOSTON — James "Whitey" Bulger told his FBI handlers he had no fears that his more than decade-long cooperation with them would put him in any personal peril because "no one" would believe the accused mob boss was talking to them, according to evidence introduced at his trial on Monday.Even as he killed criminal associates out of fear that they were providing information to law enforcement, B...
A K-9 officer was shot and killed in Sellersburg, Indiana at the start of a police standoff with a man who fled from and shot at officers trying to serve him with a warrant on Monday, police said.Sellersburg police officers approached a man with a warrant and he ran away and then fired several shots, said Sellersburg Police Trooper Brock McCooe said. The shots hit a police dog and an deputy.The hu...
A woman was in custody Monday after police detonated a suspicious object at a federal building in Indianapolis, only hours after they blew up a suspicious package at a second federal building nearby, authorities told NBC News.The Minton-Capehart building in downtown Indianapolis houses offices of the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Agency and other federal agencies h...
This Sunday, daredevil Nik Wallenda -- who famously traversed Niagara Falls on a tightrope last year -- will attempt another extreme balancing act: walking a tightrope over the Grand Canyon. Wallenda carries on a family tradition with his tricks -- he is the seventh generation of the "Great Wallendas," a stunt-performing family. And he calls to mind daredevils past, who have shocked the public for...
Striking Walmart workers need your help. Over the last several days, according to Jamie Way of Making Change at Walmart, Walmart has fired nine strikers and disciplined another 18. To shine a spotlight on Walmart’s retaliation against workers who are speaking up for their rights, Walmart workers’ advocates are urging Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who is also on Walmart’s board of directors, to speak out against the company’s harsh tactics at Yahoo’s! shareholder’s meeting Tuesday.
Rusty the red panda’s run through the wilds of Washington, D.C., is over.Officials at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo confirmed Monday afternoon their runaway resident is on the way home.Crews had been looking for the almost year-old red panda since 8 a.m. Monday, said Pamela Baker-Masson, a communications director at the zoo.Rusty was spotted in the northwest D.C. neighborhood of Adams-Morgan and ...
Sarah Lewis, policy researcher at the AFL-CIO, sends us this tweet about Washington, D.C., Fire Fighters Local 36 (@IAFF36) rescuing a pug puppy from a steaming hot car. See the tweet after the jump:
