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Lawyer: John Hinckley, Reagan's would-be assassin, should live outside mental hospital

WASHINGTON – Prosecutors and lawyers for the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan are disagreeing over what conditions should be imposed if he’s allowed to leave a mental hospital for good and live full-time with his mother in Virginia. John Hinckley Jr.’s attorney, Barry Levine, said Wednesday during the opening …

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DOE to fund $73M in infrastructure projects to settle nuke dispute in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – More than $73 million will be funneled toward road and water infrastructure projects as part of a settlement between the U.S. Department of Energy and the state over a radiation leak that forced the indefinite closure of the federal government’s troubled nuclear waste dump in southern New …

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Pop Musicians Sing Out About War

NEW YORK – Like their 1960s-era predecessors, a host of high-poweredAmerican musicians have recently begun singingtheir sentimentsover a possible war with Iraq. The Beastie Boys this week became the latest big-name act to release asongor video to protest war, with their single “In a World Gone Mad.” And coming up …

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