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UK Paper: 1,000 Americans killed by police in the US this year

(KTRS) - A study by a British newspaper states that 1,000 US citizens have been killed by police this year. The Guardian launched an interactive guide to this year's police killings on June 1. The paper also broke down the numbers on racial and ethnic lines. There were a total of 502 white deaths and…
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Charlie Sheen says he has HIV virus

In an interview Tuesday on NBC's "Today," the 50-year-old Sheen says he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS
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Clinton, Sanders spar over taxes, health care

DALLAS (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is launching a new offensive on taxes, saying Bernie Sanders' health care plan would require middle-class workers to pay higher taxes. Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon says in a statement that a 2013 proposal by Sanders in the Senate to create a single-payer health care system showed middle-class…
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Man arrested in soap/cocaine mix-up sues in Pennsylvania

The driver said packages were homemade soap, but they tested as cocaine
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Former Missouri-Columbia head to keep bulk of old salary

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - The former chancellor of the University of Missouri's flagship Columbia campus will get more than $344,000 a year in his new role heading up the school's research. The Associated Press obtained Loftin's transition agreement Monday under Missouri's open records law. It shows that R. Bowen Loftin will earn three-quarters of the…
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