Sunday show 06-20-15
Summer Solstice 2015: 5
Facts To Know About The First Day Of Summer
Some parts of the U.S.
are already sweltering, but summer doesn't officially start until
this weekend. Sunday marks the summer solstice, or first day of the
season, in the Northern Hemisphere. It's also the longest day of the
year.
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Mississippi school
district drops graduation cheering charges
A Mississippi school
superintendent who pressed charges against people for cheering at a
high school graduation has now dropped the charges. According to
multiple media reports, Senatobia Superintendent Jay Foster says the
school district withdrew the complaints Monday.
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Ros-Lehtinen: State
Dep’t Skipping Mandatory Sanctions Reporting to ‘Appease’ Iran
Government
Accountability Office findings that the State Department is not
complying with a congressionally-mandated reporting cycle on
proliferation-related sanctions are “disturbing because of what
they tell us about the lengths that the administration will go to to
appease the Iranian regime,” Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said
this week.
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Mitt Romney calls for
removal of Confederate Flag at South Carolina capital
The future of the
Confederate flag that flies on the grounds of South Carolina state
capitol consumed the Republican Party’s presidential field on
Saturday after Mitt Romney, its nominee for president in 2012,
demanded its removal, calling it a “symbol of racial hatred.”
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Report: wait lists for
Vets even longer today than last year
The number of veterans
seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or
more is 50 percent higher now than it was a year ago when a scandal
over false records and long wait times wracked the Department of
Veterans Affairs, The New York Times reported.
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Snacking on Peanuts May
Extend Your Life
People who regularly
eat peanuts may live longer, a new study from the Netherlands finds.
But before you get too excited, peanut butter doesn't count.
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Is diet the key to
curing Autism?
When a doctor told Susan Levin her 4-year-old son, Ben,
was autistic, she was shocked. It was October 2007, and autism wasn’t
mentioned in the media nearly as much as it is today.
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Fake orca nearly drowns
before it can scare Ore. sea lions _ but they did get quiet
An effort to use a
fake, life-sized orca to scare off hundreds of sea lions crowding
docks off the Oregon coast ended, at least temporarily, with the
fiberglass creature belly-up after it was swamped by a passing ship.
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The Science of Race:
Why Rachel Dolezal Can't Choose to Be Black
The media and the
public have been buzzing about the bizarre case of Rachel Dolezal,
the former head of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who says she
identifies as black despite being born white.
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