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House would ban Confederate flags on VA cemetery flagpoles

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House has voted to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at Veterans Administration cemeteries. The 265-159 vote would block descendants and others seeking to commemorate veterans of the Confederate States of America from flying the Confederate Battle Flag over mass graves, even on days that flag displays are…
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Justices say no constitutional right to speedy sentencing

The court was being asked for the first time to extend the right to a speedy trial that is part of the Sixth Amendment to the sentencing phase of a case
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Trump calls EgyptAir crash ‘another terrorist attack’

Egyptian, French and Greek officials have launched investigations into the crash but say it is too early to determine whether it was due to a technical error or an act of terrorism
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Illinois fights US spy agency decision to stay in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Illinois officials are aggressively fighting the preliminary decision to relocate a federal spy agency to a new site in St. Louis, rather than to a site across the Mississippi River in a suburban area of southern Illinois. Both of Illinois' U.S. senators and three House members from that part of the…
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Bayer confirms takeover talks with St. Louis-based Monsanto

BERLIN (AP) -- German drug and chemicals company Bayer AG says it has entered talks with the Monsanto Company about the possible acquisition of the U.S.-based specialist in genetically modified crop seeds. Leverkusen-based Bayer said in a short statement Thursday that its executives had met recently with their Monsanto counterparts "to privately discuss a negotiated…
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