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• Young People Give Pope Francis A Piece Of Their Mind

  24-03-2018 23:30
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Young Catholics told the Vatican on Saturday they want a more transparent and authentic church, where women play a greater leadership role and where obeying “unreachable” moral standards isn’t the price of admission.
  In a fascinating final document from a weeklong Vatican-initiated conference, 300 young people from around the world joined by 15,000 young people online gave the older men who run the 1.2-billion strong church a piece of their collective
  
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• Some Gun-Rights Groups Hold Counter-Protests

  24-03-2018 22:30
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on student-led protests against gun violence (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
  4:10 p.m.
  Pro-gun activists held counter-protests at some cities across the western United States on Saturday, even as hundreds of thousands of people rallied at gun control events at the same time.
  In Salt Lake City, Utah about 500 pro-gun marchers walked to the state Capitol building, advocating for fortified schools and more armed teachers. An hour later, about 6,000 anti-gun vi
  
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• “This Just Needs To Stop”: Hundreds Of Thousands Decry Guns

  24-03-2018 21:30
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Summoned to action by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied in the nation’s capital and cities across America on Saturday to press for gun control in one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam era.”If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking,” David Hogg, a survivor who has emerged as one of the student leaders of the movement, told the roaring cr
  
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• FBI Seeking Motive For Fiery Van Crash At Travis Air Base

  24-03-2018 19:32
  ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Investigators are working around the clock as they struggle to determine why a man with no apparent ties to terrorism drove a flaming minivan full of propane tanks and gasoline cans through the main gate of a major Northern California Air Force Base this week.
  Hafiz Kazi, 51, died in the Kia minivan Wednesday night after veering through the gate at Travis Air Force Base and crashing, FBI agent Sean Ragan said Friday. Kazi had no known links to terrorism, did not le
  
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• Man In Crash At Travis Air Force Base Identified, But Motive Unclear

  24-03-2018 08:34
  FAIRFIELD (CBS13) – The FBI has identified the man who drove his minivan loaded with propane tanks into the front gates at Travis Air Force Base.
  Officials said Hafiz Kazi, 51 of Sausalito, was the driver. He died before emergency personnel arrived.
  “The thought originally was probably more of an accident,” said special agent Sean Ragan with the FBI.
  Ragan told a crowd of reporters this was no accident and that Kazi was loaded with fuel.
  “Five propane tanks, a gym bag wit
  
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• The Legal Questions Still Unanswered In Stephon Clark Shooting

  24-03-2018 08:13
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Many questions still remain about the Sacramento Police officers’ actions when they shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s backyard.
  Did they act within the scope of the law, or was the shooting unjustified? A local attorney is weighing in, highlighting some stand-out seconds in police footage of the fatal killing, that he says could shape this case in court.Just 17 seconds passed from the time police first made contact with Clark an
  
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• Stephon Clark: Second Day Of Protests Roll Through Sacramento

  24-03-2018 07:20
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A second day of protests rolled through the streets of Sacramento on Friday over the shooting death of a black man by Sacramento Police.
  Stephon Clark, 22, was shot and killed in his family’s backyard after officers tracked him down amid reports of burglaries in the area. Body camera footage released on Wednesday showed a short time between officers’ first contact and shots being fired at Clark. Further complicating matters were reports from Sacramento Poli
  
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• No Known Terror Link In Travis Air Force Base Crash

  24-03-2018 01:00
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13/AP) — The man who crashed his car through a gate at Travis Air Force Base has been identified.
  FBI agent Sean Ragan said Hafiz Kazi was found dead inside the Kia minivan Wednesday evening shortly after barreling through the main gate of Travis Air Force Base and crashing.
  Investigators say five propane tanks, a gym bag, three phones and three one-gallon gas cans in his car.
  Meanwhile, investigators say he has no known terrorism link.
  Military personnel ran up to the burni
  
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• Wife Sentenced In Husband’s Crime Spree That Claimed Deputies’ Lives

  24-03-2018 00:30
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The wife of a man whose crime spree claimed the lives of two Sacramento area law enforcement officers has been sentenced to life in prison.
  The verdicts against Janelle Monroy in the deaths of Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County Sheriff’s Det. Michael Davis Jr. comes a month after Luis Bracamontes was convicted.
  The Placer County Sheriff’s Office released a statement praising the ruling.
  We are satisfied with the sentence
  
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