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Policemen stand guard next to protesters placed on the road in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, June 16, 2013. Brazilian police have dispersed a small protest against a public transport fare hike that broke out in front of Rio de Janeiro's Maracana stadium ahead of the Mexico-Italy soccer match during the Confederations Cup. (AP Photo/Bruno Magalhaes)

Protesters back in streets of Brazilian cities

More than 100,000 people took to the streets in largely peaceful protests in at least eight cities Monday, demonstrations that voiced the deep frustrations Brazilians feel about carrying heavy tax burdens but receiving woeful returns in public education, health, security and transportation. In Sao Paulo, Brazil's economic hub, at least ...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to the media before hosting a lunch appointment with Connecticut gun makers in Hartford, Conn., Monday, June 17, 2013.  The governors of Texas and South Dakota are visiting Connecticut to court local gun makers, many of which have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new gun-control laws in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Texas, SD governors court Conn. gun makers

The governors of Texas and South Dakota visited Connecticut on Monday to court gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new gun-control laws this year in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. While gun makers may be unlikely to leave behind their ...

Julie Hermann starts as Rutgers athletic director

Saying she has already rolled up her sleeves and is ready to work, Julie Hermann took over as Rutgers' athletic director with the promise that her No. 1 job is to create an atmosphere for Scarlet Knights students to excel on and off the field. The embattled Hermann showed up ...

Entertainment star Barbra Streisand speaks during a ceremony at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem after she received an honorary doctorate in Jerusalem, Monday, June 17, 2013. Streisand waded into one of Israel’s touchiest issues Monday on the first major stop of her tour of the country Jewish religious practices that separate men and women. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

In Israel, Streisand criticizes treatment of women

Entertainer Barbra Streisand waded into one of Israel's touchiest issues Monday on the first major stop of her tour of the country — Jewish religious practices that separate men and women. Speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday, where she received an honorary doctorate, she took aim at ...

Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

Green Bay Press-Gazette, June 15 Obama's 2nd term stumbles out of gate The Affordable Care Act could make or break President Barack Obama's second term and ultimately put a stamp on his legacy. Beset by a Congress that cannot agree on anything and a dizzying supply of scandals and controversies, ...

In this Wednesday, June 12, 2013 photo, brothers Jorge Tume, left, and Francis Tume are shown in Miami. Tume’s parents brought them to the U.S. from Peru on tourist visas when they were young and decided to stay, becoming unauthorized immigrants with no legal status. Now, one year after President Barack Obama announced an executive order allowing young people living in the U.S. illegally to stay and work, nearly 300,000 young adults previously living illegally in the United States have been granted permission to stay and work through the program, the most significant shift in immigration policy in recent decades. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

For young immigrants, a delayed coming of age

As a child, Jorge Tume used to sit and do homework as his parents cleaned the desks and floors of a concrete company in Miami. When he was done, he'd take out the trash and help finish cleaning. Tume's parents brought him to the U.S. from Peru with his younger ...

Allen Seifert, right, a nuclear engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, leads students Hannah Gardiner, left, Andrea Richard and Pat Mulligan on a tour of PNNL's Shallow Underground Laboratory, June 11, 2013. The lab is 100-times more protected from cosmic radiation than the earth's surface  which allows scientists to perform very sensitive radiation detection. The students were some of the 16 college and graduate students from around the country participating in PNNL's two-week course in radiation detection for nuclear security. (AP Photo/Tri-City Herald, Kai-Huei Yau)

Summer camp students visit Richland security lab

Summer camp for 16 college students at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at Richland means putting on masks, hairnets and body suits to visit the ultra-clean lab where scientists perform some of their nuclear security work. A recent visit to the underground lab gave the students a look at how ...

Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapers

Lincoln Journal Star. June 15, 2013. Use common sense on immigration Remember what Sen. Mike Johanns said about the farm bill, stalled in Congress now for long months? When the Senate passed its version of the legislation, again, Johanns allowed as to how the bill was not the one he ...

Community unites to preserve Fort Branch history

As it was in life, so it remains in memory: Fort Branch High School is the proverbial center of its namesake town. "It's the foundation of the community. What we have now is based on the past, and what we have is a great community," said Marlene Obert, one of ...

This film publicity image released by Disney-Pixar shows Mike Wazowski, voiced by Billy Crystal in a scene from "Monsters University." (AP Photo/Disney-Pixar)

Review: 'Monsters University' gets a passing grade

In Pixar's "Monsters University," a prequel to 2001 "Monsters, Inc.," our expert "scarers" to be — the wisecracking pipsqueak Mike Wazowski and the burly James B. Sullivan — are college freshmen with high aspirations. Pixar, too, knows something about expectations. Thanks to the gentle poetry of "Up," the cosmic romance ...

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