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Starbucks touts Christmas coffee after flap over red cups

WASHINGTON (AP) - Starbucks is pushing back against accusations from GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and others that its minimalist holiday cup design is a slap at Christmas. In a statement Tuesday touting its 2015 Christmas coffee, Starbucks said it's introducing this year's exclusive blend on behalf of its 300,000 employees "from diverse ethnic backgrounds."…
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Maine sues Planned Parenthood foe, says he yelled too loudly

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Maine's attorney general is suing a protester who she says yelled so loudly outside a Planned Parenthood facility that he disrupted health care services there. Attorney General Janet Mills filed a complaint under the state's civil rights act against 26-year-old Brian Ingalls, of Lisbon. She says he violated the rights of…
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White supremacist to learn if he will be sentenced to death

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - A Missouri white supremacist who killed three people at two Kansas Jewish sites last year is about to find out if he will be sentenced to death. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. was convicted in August of capital murder, attempted murder and other charges. The same jury that convicted him after a…
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