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Michelle Obama confronted a gay-rights protester who heckled her at a Democratic fundraiser in Washington on Tuesday, offering to give her the microphone and leave, before the crowd cheered for the first lady to stay.Obama was 12 minutes into a planned 20-minute speech at a couple’s home when a woman standing at the front of the small crowd interrupted, demanding that President Barack Obama sign a...
The pot industry isn’t being cultivated with grow lights behind blacked-out windows anymore. Despite federal drug-enforcement and tax laws that render it illegal — and hard to turn a profit as a mainstream business — the economics of pot are becoming closer to what one advocate dubs “Big Marijuana.”“It’s been an industry for a long, long time. It’s just been an underground industry,” said Jeffrey ...
The seemingly relentless wave of severe weather striking Oklahoma and other Southern Plains states was threatening again on Wednesday.A risk of severe thunderstorms was forecast from eastern New Mexico and Colorado, across Oklahoma and parts of Texas and Kansas to Arkansas and southern Missouri, according to weather.com.Additionally, flood warnings were in effect in the Mississippi Valley from nor...
PHOENIX -- Five people whose skeletal remains were found in a remote Arizona smuggling corridor are thought to have been homicide victims from Mexico or Central America who were shot or beaten to death, authorities said on Tuesday.Border Patrol agents discovered the five sets of human remains a week ago. They were partly covered by rocks in desert about 130 miles south of Phoenix near the town of ...
Will D. Campbell, a towering figure of the U.S. civil rights movement who was the only white person present at the meeting that led to the creation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has died at 88, his family said Tuesday.Campbell's death Monday night was announced in an email message sent on the family's behalf to Campbell's friends and acquaintances b...
A lawyer for a female midshipman who accused three U.S. Naval Academy football players of raping her last year said her client was actually disciplined for drinking while her alleged attackers went unpunished."The message that was being sent loud and clear was that she was getting in trouble for coming forward, and yet nothing was happening to the men who were involved in the wrongdoing," said Sus...
An adult video star known as "Mr. Marcus" was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days in jail for knowingly having exposed at least two female co-stars to syphilis last year.The performer, whose real name is Jesse Spencer, 42 — and was inducted into the "Adult Video News Hall of Fame" four years ago — was the main figure in a scandal over the spread of the communicable disease that temporarily halted video p...
