Two Powerball Tickets Win $55.6 Million Jackpot
Two tickets sold in Indiana and Kentucky matched all six Powerball numbers for Saturday night winning the $55.6 million jackpot. The prize rolls to an estimated $5 million for Wednesday. Twelve tickets matched the first five numbers but not the Powerball, each worth $100,000, sold across Arizona, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, and Wisconsin.
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New York City Poll on Gay Parenting Attitudes
Newsweek highlights a 929 adult sample showing 57 percent accept gays as as good parents as heterosexuals while 31 percent disagree and 12 percent are unsure. On adoption rights for gay couples 47 percent oppose, 36 percent support, 17 percent undecided. opposition trends down from 1994 and May surveys.
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Oklahoma City bombing survivors meet with prosecutors
Survivors and relatives who lost loved ones in the Oklahoma City blast met with prosecutors Sunday and said they feel comfortable with the case evidence. About 200 attendees heard lead prosecutor Joseph Hartzler describe procedural rulings as not affecting evidence quality or quantity. Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols face federal murder, conspiracy, and weapons charges for the April 19, 1995 bombing that killed 168 and wounded over 500, with potential death sentences if convicted.
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U.S. Attorney’s Office
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Joseph Hartzler
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Talks resume after union deadline at GM Detroit
Negotiations between General Motors and the United Auto Workers pushed past a Sunday midnight deadline with no immediate strike decision. GM officials declined further comment while UAW leaders remained at the table, signaling possible progress as both sides weigh job security terms tied to national contracts.
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Jack Smith Jr
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Keith Foren
Flint
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Mark Allen
Oklahoma City
Canadian Auto Workers Union
Harley Shaiken
University of California-Berkeley
Canada
United States
Mexico
Presidential pedigree may tilt Clinton bid in race
London AP reports that President Clinton and Bob Dole share distant cousins in Burke's Peerage lineage. Clinton shows deeper royal ties, tracing to King Robert I of France and every Scottish monarch, plus connections to the British royal family, while Dole's royal links are fewer, mainly to King Henry III.
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Dole
Henry III
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
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France
Harold Brooks-Baker
Burke's Peerage
George Washington
Brooks-Baker
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England
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Harrison
Maryland
Virginia
Richard Ewen
House of Burgesses Assembly
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Simon de Montford
Henry II
Eleanor
de Montford
Trial opens on teen abortion aid case in LaPorte
In LaPorte Pennsylvania the trial of Rosa Marie Hartford begins on a charge of interfering with the custody of a child after she helped a 13 year old girl cross into New York for an abortion. Prosecutors seek a message rather than jail while defense argues the case tests abortion rights.
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Rosa Marie Hartford
New York
Hartford
Dist
Max Little
Center For Reproductive Law and Policy
Kathryn Kolbert
Kolbert
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Little
Binghamton
N.Y
Sullivan County High School
Proro
Famous Faces Named to GQ Men of the Year List
Michael Jordan Jerry Seinfeld Mel Gibson headlines in GQ s November Men of the Year issue Readers voted 11 categories led by Jordan Seinfeld won TV entertainment Gibson film Pat Riley stylish Carter humanitarian Brokaw TV news Gates business I M Pei Armani Norman Mailer Darius Rucker also recognized Robert Redford attends Wellstone fundraiser in Minneapolis urging liberal stance on issues and criticizing ads against Wellstone opponent.
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Jerry Seinfeld
Mel Gibson
Jordan
Seinfeld
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Pat Riley
Jimmy Carter
Tom Brokaw
TV News
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I.M. Pei
Giorgio Armani
Norman Mailer
Darius Rucker
Salvation Army tops charity list
Washington AP Americans gave 23.5 billion to the 400 largest charities last year led by the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, and Catholic Charities USA. Giving rose 5 percent from 1994 while Salvation Army donations fell 11.3 percent to 644.3 million, yet it remained No. 1 for the fourth straight year.
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American Red Cross
Catholic Charities USA
Chronicle of Philanthropy
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American Cancer Society
Second Harvest
United Jewish Appeal
Harvard University
Boys and Girls Clubs of America
Ywca of the USA
American Heart Assn
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