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Chicago braces for final day of NATO protests

A protester stands before Chicago Police at the Art Institute where First Lady Michelle Obama is hosting a dinner for the spouses of NATO dignitaries during this weekend's summit in Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago braced for more demonstrations Monday, with protesters vowing to march to the Boeing Corp. headquarters a day after police clashed with a group of demonstrators at the end of a march protesting the NATO summit.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:27:06Z
Black undercount found in 1940 census records

FILE - In this July 6, 1957 file photo, Althea Gibson, of New York City, holds the women's singles tennis trophy at Wimbledon, England, while being kissed by her finals opponent, Darlene Hard, of Montebello, Calif. Gibson, who became the first African-American to win a Wimbledon championship, was among the more than a million black people who weren’t counted in the 1940 census. There is no record of Gibson and her family in the decennial census, the records of which were released online to the public by the U.S. Census Bureau on April 2 after a 72-year confidentiality period lapsed. (AP Photo, File)

It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:13:31Z
Dominican election in dispute after apparent win

A woman mark her ballot during the presidential election in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sunday May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Manuel Diaz)

A governing party official appeared to have scored a first-round win in the Dominican Republic's presidential election but supporters of his main opponent complained of vote-buying and other forms of fraud and said they would challenge the results.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T06:55:42Z
In Joplin, a senior year to remember after tornado

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 8, 2012, a tattered flag shows a years worth of wear as it hangs from the remains of a destroyed home in Joplin, Mo. Reconstruction continues in the community as the anniversary of an EF-5 tornado that destroyed a large swath of the city and killed 161 people approaches on May, 22. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

It was a label they sought both to embrace and avoid, a refrain overheard in whispers or uttered bluntly at soccer games, summer camps and national academic competitions: Here come the tornado kids from Joplin.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:18:19Z
Families of Lockerbie victims still seek answers

FILE This Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 file photo shows Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, center, being helped down the airplane steps on his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday May 20, 2012 nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60. (AP Photo)

The death of the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has left some victims' relatives relieved and others raising questions about his guilt and whether others went unpunished.
Publ.Date : 2012-05-21T07:23:28Z