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    A Port Authority official berated and cursed at officers during a traffic stop. A dash cam was on.
    There is, of course, no official manual on how to use an official government position to get officers to tear up a ticket, but for any enterprising...
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    April 24, 2018
    Employees outside the Waffle House restaurant where a gunman opened fire early Sunday morning in Nashville, April 23, 2018. The police said Monday that they had arrested a suspect, Travis J. Reinking, in the shooting that left four people dead and four others wounded. (Shawn Poynter/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Waffle House shooting suspect left behind considerable evidence at scene, authorities say
    The 29-year-old charged with killing four people at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, over the weekend left behind considerable evidence...
    news/nationApril 24, 2018 - 4:30pm
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    A man was going to jump off a Detroit overpass. Then 13 truckers showed up to save him.
    DETROIT - Law enforcement knew they had to act quickly. A man, struggling with the decision to take his own life, was on the verge of jumping...
    news/nationApril 24, 2018 - 3:49pm
    April 23, 2018
    Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and his daughter Dorothy "Doro" Bush Koch greet visitors during the public viewing for the late former first lady Barbara Bush at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, April 20, 2018. (Mark Burns/Office of George H.W. Bush/Pool via The New York Times Copyright 2018)
    George H.W. Bush hospitalized the day after funeral for his wife, Barbara
    Former president George H.W. Bush was hospitalized Sunday morning "after contracting an infection that spread to his blood," spokesman Jim McGrath...
    news/nationApril 23, 2018 - 7:34pm
    April 20, 2018
    Richard Grant holds a jacket with an image of the destroyer USS Frank Evans on Thursday, April 19, 2018, in his north Fargo home. He served on the ship as it was sunk in a 1969 naval accident near Vietnam. He wants the 74 sailors who lost their lives added to the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Michael Vosburg / Forum News Service
    The 'Lost 74': ND vet who survived shipwreck wants victims remembered as Vietnam War casualties
    FARGO — Richard Grant was 22 years old when he and others aboard the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans watched 74 of their fellow crew members...
    news/nationApril 20, 2018 - 7:48pm
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    'Poop train' from New York befouled a small Alabama town, until the town fought back
    PARRISH, Ala. - All anyone here could talk about was the smell, which drifted from the rail yard to the softball field, past the pharmacy and...
    news/nationApril 20, 2018 - 1:54pm
    April 19, 2018
    Two Florida sheriff's deputies shot to death through restaurant window
    A Florida sheriff's office said two of its deputies were shot and killed through a restaurant window by an assailant who was then found dead...
    news/nationApril 19, 2018 - 7:43pm
    April 18, 2018
    Barbara Bush, the wife of Vice President George H. W. Bush, in the official residence of the Vice President in Washington, April 16, 1982. Bush, the widely admired wife of one president and the fiercely loyal mother of another, died on April 17, 2018. She was 92 (Teresa Zabala/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    After calling Barbara Bush an 'amazing racist,' a professor taunts critics: 'I will never be fired'
    In the hours after Barbara Bush died Tuesday, people from around the world began expressing their condolences and sharing their warm memories...
    news/nationApril 18, 2018 - 9:14pm
    April 13, 2018
    President Donald Trump speaks with Stephen Schwarzman, the chief executive of the private equity giant Blackstone, at the White House in Washington, Feb. 3, 2017. Trump has assembled the wealthiest cabinet in American history, and also a deeply conflicted one; his informal advisors also have many business interests which intersect with the president's agendas. (Al Drago/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Billionaire offered $25 million to high school alma mater. What he wanted in return was too much for the district.
    Billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman wanted to give $25 million to his alma mater in Pennsylvania, Abington High School. And the school board was...
    news/nationApril 13, 2018 - 2:32pm
    April 9, 2018
    David Hogg, 17, a survivor of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 15, 2018. After thousands of posts and videos had popped up on Facebook and YouTube falsely claiming that survivors of the shooting were paid actors or part of various conspiracy theories, the companies vowed to remove the content. So far, they are still falling short. (Saul Martinez/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Sinclair commentator resigns after threatening to sexually assault Parkland survivor David Hogg
    A conservative commentator at a Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned television station in St. Louis has resigned after a statement he made threatening...
    news/nationApril 9, 2018 - 7:39pm
    Fabian Rodriguez, 28, prepares to shoot at the range. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Ilana Panich-Linsman
    The allure of the AR-15: 'I know I don't need it,' says one recent buyer, but that's not the point
    Fabian Rodriguez was cradling his new rifle when he stopped at one of the gun-show booths to purchase a $5 chicken fajita MRE. The "Meal Ready...
    news/nationApril 9, 2018 - 7:00am
    April 6, 2018
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    South Carolina lawmaker pulls out loaded gun during meeting with constituents
    A lawmaker from South Carolina pulled out his loaded pistol during a meeting with his constituents Friday to make a point about gun safety, according...
    news/nationApril 6, 2018 - 8:41pm
    Controversial Backpage.com taken offline 'as part of an enforcement action,' federal officials say
    The website Backpage.com was taken down Friday and seized by federal law enforcement authorities, according to a notice posted online. The classifieds...
    news/nationApril 6, 2018 - 4:31pm
    April 4, 2018
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    Twin sisters known for spirited battle with obsessive compulsive disorder die in possible 'suicide pact'
    Sara and Amanda Eldritch would take showers that lasted upward of 10 hours. The inseparable twin sisters from Broomfield, Colorado, would go...
    news/nationApril 4, 2018 - 1:52pm
    April 3, 2018
    Police officers walk towards YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., April 3, 2018. According to police, at least four people were injured, one of them critically, in a shooting at the headquarters by a woman who died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. (Jim Wilson/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Woman with gun opened fire at YouTube HQ, wounding several before killing herself, officials said
    SAN BRUNO, Calif. - A woman with a gun opened fire Tuesday at the headquarters of YouTube, shooting three other people before turning the weapon...
    news/nationApril 3, 2018 - 7:54pm
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