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Video captures white Baton Rouge police officer fatally shooting black man, sparking outrage

A video surfaced showing two white La. police officers in a deadly physical altercation with a black man. One of the officers appears to shoot Alton Sterling several times at point-blank range.

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On July 4th, this man exercised his right to burn the American flag. Then he was arrested.

Police in Urbana, Ill. cited a state statute against flag desecration in making the arrest. But a state attorney later questioned whether the state law was in harmony with a landmark Supreme Court ruling on flag burning and the First Amendment.

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China completes world’s largest radio dish to let scientists hunt for black holes and E.T.

In addition to listening for aliens, the radio telescope will hunt for black holes, distant stars -- and even the molecular building blocks of life.

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Navy grants $750,000 to develop bomb-sniffing locusts

To control the locusts, scientists hope to place biocompatible silk "tattoos" on their wings that can concert light to heat, then use lasers to heat the wings and guide the locusts paths.

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Shock in South Africa over 6 year sentence for ‘blade runner’ Oscar Pistorius for girlfriend’s murder

Fifteen years is the minimum sentence for murder under South African law unless the judge finds mitigating circumstances justifying a lesser penalty. Judge Thokozile Masipa said she had indeed found reason for a lighter sentence.

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Florida man stole 107 freshly laid sea turtle eggs buried at the beach, police say

Beach patrol found the man snatching the white, soft-shelled eggs away from a female loggerhead as she laid them.

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‘He was ash gray': Strangers pull toddler from collapsed tunnel on Calif. beach

One study shows less than half of children in collapsed sand tunnels survive. But a toddler named Brooks was lucky.

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