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Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys

Former Boys Scout leader Jennifer Tyrrell, center, is greeted as her son and current Boy Scout Cruz Burns, 8, bottom, looks on during the Equal Scouting Summit being held near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. Delegates to the Boys Scouts of America meeting are expected to address a proposal to allow gay scouts into the organization.

The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.

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18 hurt in shuttle bus crash near Atlanta airport

Eighteen people were taken to the hospital Friday, at least two in serious condition, after they were hurt in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport, officials said.

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Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military

With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no place in the greatest military on earth."
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Canadian trucking company says it had permits

The trucking company involved in a Washington state bridge collapse says it received a state-issued permit to carry its oversized load across the bridge.
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Brewers team up on beer to help military families

Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime - baseball bats.
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Obama speech suggests possible expansion of drone killings

President Barack Obama on Thursday defended his administration’s use of drone strikes to kill terrorists as effective, lawful and “heavily constrained,” but he also appeared to be laying groundwork for an expansion of the controversial targeted killings.
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No bail for Pa. parents in faith-healing death

A Philadelphia judge has ordered that a couple who believe in faith healing over medicine be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son.
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Broadwell expresses remorse for Petraeus affair

The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship.

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'Unusual condition' seen before Conn. derailment

Federal officials investigating last week's commuter train derailment in Connecticut say the engineer described an "unusual condition" on the track before the train derailed.

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Md. suspect is son of Bush White House official

The son of a former aide to President George W. Bush is charged in Maryland with killing a man with a hatchet.

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Some damage reported from 5.7 quake in N. Calif.

An earthquake in far northeastern California did not injure anyone but did cause moderate damage, including to a water tank that supplies hundreds of homes with drinking water, local authorities said Friday.