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Gordon Brown, the former British prime minister and the U.N.s special envoy for global education, is calling on the International Criminal Court to prosecute the Taliban for denying education and employment to Afghan girls and women.

Dustin Witt was booked on suspicion of assault by a public officer after kicking a DUI suspect in the head, authorities said. He resigned as a Merced County deputy.

Dustin Witt was booked on suspicion of assault by a public officer after kicking a DUI suspect in the head, authorities said. He resigned as a Merced County deputy.

In the first few months since passage of a ballot initiative last November, Missouri has become home to a billion-dollar recreational marijuana industry. With virtually no money available to oppose the $10 million spent by the cannabis industry to fully legalize the weed, the initiative passed by 53-47% in this traditionally conservative state. A total…

 

Dozens of people who apparently were smuggled into the United States were found working and living in "horrible" conditions at an illegal marijuana plant in California’s Central Valley, authorities said Thursday.

Authorities in California's Central Valley say they've found dozens of people working and living in “horrible” conditions at an illegal marijuana plant.

Derrick Van Orden, a freshman congressman from Wisconsin, elicited a bipartisan rebuke from Senate leaders but refused to apologize for yelling and cursing at high school-age Senate pages who were lying down to take photos in the rotunda during a late-night tour of the Capitol.

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The people were apparently smuggled into the United States and found working and living in "horrible" conditions at an illegal marijuana plant in Merced