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Hundreds march for stricter gun laws

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'A storm the likes ... we have never seen before'

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Climate change marches happen worldwide

Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan on Sunday, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth - in stride with demonstrators around the world who urged policymakers to take quick action.
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NYC train derailment kills 4, over 60 injured

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A barnyard like no other

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NYC rally against proposed super-sized drinks ban

NEW YORK - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that if New Yorkers want to kill themselves with sugar - that's their right.
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Trading his dustpan for a diploma

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Facing the hurt again

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A more accurate view

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Protesters march past millionaires' homes

NEW YORK - Now it's personal: Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters held a "Millionaires March" on Tuesday past the homes of some of the wealthiest executives in America, stopping to jeer "Tax the rich!" and "Where's my bailout?"
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Sick and tired

NEW YORK - Their chief target is Wall Street, but many of the demonstrators in New York and across the U.S. are also thoroughly disgusted with Washington, blaming politicians of both parties for policies they say protect corporate America at the expense of the middle class.
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Sept. 11 memorial opens

NEW YORK - Exactly 10 years ago, ground zero was a smoking, fire-spitting tomb, a ghastly pile of rubble and human remains. On Monday it was a place of serenity - an expanse of trees and water in the middle of a bustling city - as the 9/11 memorial opened …
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Harry Bernstein, published at age 96, dies

NEW YORK - Harry Bernstein, whose acclaimed memoir of an English childhood haunted by anti-Semitism - "The Invisible Wall" - was published when he was 96, has died at 101.
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Unsettled nation marks 9/11 with rituals of sorrow

NEW YORK - Rites of remembrance and loss marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, familiar in their sorrow but observed for the first time Saturday in a nation torn over the prospect of a mosque near ground zero and the role of Islam in society.
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Heiress, 104, at center of probe

NEW YORK - The 104-year-old heiress to a Montana copper mining fortune - now a recluse in a New York hospital room - is at the center of a criminal investigation into her fortune and welfare, two people familiar with the probe told The Associated Press.
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