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House to consider cuts to food stampsHouse to consider cuts to food stamps as part of massive farm bill
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FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 17, 2009 file photo, children salvage the remains of a failed potato field at a farm in the Laikipia District, of Kenya, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of the capital Nairobi, in the wake of a prolonged drought which wiped out harvests throughout the country. While sea level rise threatens some coastal communities in Africa, the continent faces even bigger climate-related problems inland. Climate scientists have projected shifts in rainfall patterns leading to extended droughts in some areas and increased flooding in other parts. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)
World Bank highlights climate-poverty linkWorld Bank zooms in on link between climate change, poverty
The Associated Press29 minutes ago
Muhammad Naeem a representative of the Taliban speaks during a press conference at the official opening of their office in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a major breakthrough, the Taliban and the U.S. announced Tuesday that they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan as the Islamic militant movement opened an office in Qatar. American officials with the Obama administration said the office in the Qatari capital of Doha was the first step toward the ultimate U.S.-Afghan goal of a full Taliban renouncement of links with al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)
Karzai suspends talks with US over Taliban moveAfghan president suspends talks with US on security deal to protest US-Taliban negotiations
The Associated Press31 minutes ago
In this photo taken Monday, June 17, 2013, lawyer Nguyen Thi Duong Ha stands in the courtyard of her home in downtown Hanoi, Vietnam. Her husband Cu Huy Ha Vu is entering the fourth week of a prison hunger strike to protest alleged poor treatment. Vu was jailed after suing the prime minister and calling for multiparty democracy. His strike comes amid an intensifying crackdown on dissident, and illustrates how the government's most outspoken critics speak out despite threats to their health and safety. (AP Photo/Mike Ives)
Vietnam hunger strike tests official intimidationPrison hunger strike by Vietnam revolutionary's son tests government's culture of intimidation
The Associated Press33 minutes ago
In this June 11, 2013, photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grassley says the Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts. He says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees’ union on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to pay the bonuses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Senator: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonusesSen. Grassley says IRS to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite order to cut benefits
The Associated Press19 minutes ago
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Today in History

On June 19, 1953,

Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y.

In 1862,

Congress passed, and President Abraham Lincoln signed, a measure abolishing slavery in U.S. territories.

In 1865,

Union troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free.

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