Lucy Perkins
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The cashier of the Pittsburgh, Pa., convenience store, went with the sword, although he also had a gun. He said that the robbers could have easily been shot, CBS affiliate KDKA TV reports.
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This was the first class to allow women in more than six decades of Ranger training. NPR's Tom Bowman notes that 19 women started the course and two are graduating.
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Glenn Pladsen says he couldn't figure out any other way to dispose of the books, which were mostly romance novels, according to the Times Call.
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NPR's David Folkenflik reports that Vox's value post-investment is nearly $1 billion.
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Hillary Clinton, who is a Democratic presidential candidate, will also turn over a USB drive holding copies of the 30,000 emails she has turned over to the State Department.
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Symmonds has a deal to wear Brooks Running products, while the U.S. world championships team is sponsored by Nike.
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Reporters for The Washington Post and Huffington Post were covering the 2014 protests in Ferguson when they were held in a McDonald's. Now they're charged with trespassing and interfering with police.
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Umm Sayyaf has been transferred from U.S. custody to the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government's Ministry of Interior.
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Hercules and Leo were used for researched at Stony Brook University will be retired. They were at the center of a court case that tested whether chimps had the same legal "personhood" as humans.
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The judge wrote that someday they may get legal rights, but courts don't embrace change quickly. The chimps are held by Stony Brook University.