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• Historic battleship USS Iowa to become museum in Los Angeles

  LOS ANGELES - The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the perilous Atlantic waters to a historic meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin in the dark days of World War Two, is to become a floating museum. The battleship saw combat in th …

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• Report: Nearly 10 percent of inmates suffer sexual abuse

  Nearly one in 10 prisoners suffer sexual abuse while incarcerated in state prisons, local jails and post-release treatment facilities, according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice.

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• Court delivers new blow to Planned Parenthood in Texas abortion battle

  AUSTIN, Texas - A U.S. appeals court judge on Tuesday issued an emergency stay of a ruling that prevented the state from excluding Planned Parenthood from a health program for low-income women because the organization performs abortions.

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• First lawsuit filed in salmonella outbreak tied to sushi

  The first lawsuit spawned by a salmonella outbreak that appears to be linked to sushi -- which has now sickened 141 people in 20 states plus the District of Columbia -- was filed late Wednesday against Moon Marine U.S.A. Corp, a Cupertino, Calif., seafood importer …

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• Mishandled bag rates drop, but tensions remain in the airline cabin

  With the busy summer travel season just months away, there’s good news and bad news on the baggage front.

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