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African Union peacekeepers and unidentified foreigners crouch down outside the main U.N. compound, following an attack on it in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
16 dead: Militants infiltrate UN's Somalia office16 dead: Militants bomb way into UN's Mogadishu headquarters as staff take refuge in bunkers
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House panel starts rewrite of No Child Left BehindNo Child Left Behind revamp start on Republican-led education panel
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Protestors destroy ATM machines at a local a bank in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Thousands of demonstrators flooded into a square in Brazil’s economic hub, Sao Paulo, on Tuesday. Sparked earlier this month by a 10-cent hike in bus and subway fares and organized via social media, the nationwide protests are giving voice to growing discontent over the gap between Brazil’s high tax burden and the low quality of public infrastructure, echoing similar mobilizations in Turkey, Greece and other parts of the globe where weariness with governments has exploded in the streets. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)
Protesters out again in Brazil's biggest cityBrazilians continue protests to lament high cost of living, lack of good public services
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FILE - This March 22, 2013 file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. 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 enacted this year, according to a GOP senator.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Senator: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonusesSen. Grassley says IRS to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite order to cut benefits
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FILE - This July 26, 1959 file photo shows Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa in Washington.  Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Hoffa on Monday, June 17, 2013, digging around in a suburban Detroit field where a reputed Mafia captain says the Teamsters boss' body was buried. Authorities used excavation equipment to root around in the Oakland Township property, about 25 miles north of Detroit.  (AP Photo/File)
FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffa's remains endsFBI says it found no sign of remains of ex-Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa in suburban Detroit
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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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