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Washington Post

A Defense Department database devoted to gathering information on potential threats to military facilities and personnel, known as Talon, had 13,000 entries as of a year ago -- including 2,821 reports involving American citizens, according to an inte

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Daily Press

Several dozen service members joined peace activists to call for an end to the war in Iraq. An "appeal for redress'' petition, signed by more than 1,000 active duty soldiers -- many of whom served in Iraq -- is to be delivered to Congres

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AP

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan and 3 other women were convicted of trespassing for trying to deliver an anti-Iraq war petition to the US Mission to the UN. Prosecutors said they were arrested after ignoring police orders to disperse.

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Washington Post

The D.C. police department agreed to pay $685,000 and take steps to protect protesters from police abuse and ensure their rights to settle a lawsuit over the treatment of demonstrators at President Bush's inauguration in 2001.

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Washington Times

Three Dominican nuns who broke into a Colorado nuclear-missile silo say there's no chance of them paying restitution to the U.S. Air Force -- even if it means serving more prison time. Instead, the no-nukes nuns are trying to settle their $3,082

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Courier-Post

An outspoken community activist filed a complaint with township police after finding a pig's severed head on her front porch. Alene Ammond was at home celebrating her granddaughter's birthday with family and close friends when the incident o

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keenefreepress.com

Our old friend Judge Kevin McMahon just jacked up her bail to $20,000, ordered her held for 30 days, and requested a competency exam report at the conclusion of that period. All this for what began with a simple trespassing charge.

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