Students protest education cuts across California campuses
Across about 30 campuses in California students educators and Occupy activists rallied to oppose state education cuts and tuition hikes. Demonstrations included blockades may cancel classes and staff shortages as protesters urge Gov. Brown to reject deals with cuts and back a millionaire tax to fund education.
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Wall Street
California
Santa Cruz
Jim Burns
Jerry Brown
Capitol
Sacramento
Rebels retreat from Baba Amr as Red Cross gains access
After a monthlong siege in Homs Baba Amr, Syrian rebels call a tactical retreat citing lack of weapons and dire humanitarian conditions. The ICRC and Syrian Red Crescent win entry to deliver aid and evacuate the wounded while the Syrian National Council forms a military bureau to coordinate armed resistance.
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Beirut
Homs
Bashar Assad
International Committee of the Red Cross
Baba Amr
Red Cross
Syrian Arab Red Crescent
ICRC
Hicham Hassan
Associated Press
Geneva
Syria
Syrian National Council
Lebanon
Marie Colvin
Remi Ochlik
Edith Bouvier
Paul Conroy
Javier Espinosa
Spain
William Daniels
France
Assad
Maryland Approves Gay Marriage Law in Maryland
Governor Martin O Malley signed a bill making Maryland the eighth state to legalize same sex marriage with effect in 2013. Opponents plan a referendum to overturn the measure, needing about 56 000 valid signatures.
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Beltsville
Maryland
Martin O’malley
U.S
Two U.S. Soldiers Die in Afghan Shooting at Joint Base
Two American servicemembers were killed in southern Afghanistan when shot by an Afghan soldier and a literacy teacher at a joint base. The incident adds to six U.S. deaths in under two weeks tied to anti-American fury after Quran burnings.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
NATO
Grandmother to face capital charge in girl's death
A 9 year old girl's death in Gadsden prompts capital murder charges against Joyce Hardin Garrard and Jessica Hardin after prosecutors describe Garrard on a bus surveillance video saying she would run the girl "'til she can't run no more." autopsy shows severe dehydration and low sodium.
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Gadsden
Ala
Joyce Hardin Garrard
Savannah Hardin
Marcus Reid
Etowah County
Garrard
Reid
Savannah
Jessica Mae Hardin
Robert Hardin
Hardin
William D. Russell
Jimmie Harp
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