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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)
IRS draws new criticism over $70M employee bonusesIRS draws new criticism over $70M in employee bonuses, says it's bound by union contract
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FILE - This Jan. 17, 2012 file photo shows celebrity chef Paula Deen posing for a portrait in New York. Deen says she has used racial slurs in the past but insists she and her brother, who are accused of racial and sexual discrimination in a lawsuit by a former manager of their restaurant, don’t tolerate hateful behavior. In a court deposition conducted on May 17, 2013 and filed Monday, June 17, 2013, in federal court, an attorney for former restaurant manager Lisa Jackson presses the 66-year-old Deen about her racial views and those of her brother, Bubba Hiers.  (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, File)
Deen says she used slur but doesn't tolerate hatePaula Deen says in lawsuit questioning that she has used racial slur but doesn't tolerate hate
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Top UK court overturns sanctions on Iranian bankBritain's Supreme Court quashes sanctions against Iranian Bank Mellat
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A masked protestor walks near a burning barricade as riot police stand guard near the Castelao stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Protesters cut off the main access road to the stadium where Brazil goes up against Mexico in the Confederations Cup soccer tournament. Beginning as protests against bus fare hikes, the demonstrations have quickly ballooned to include broad middle-class outrage over the failure of governments to provide basic services and ensure public safety. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Sao Paulo officials reverse subway, bus fare hikeSao Paulo officials reverse subway, bus fare hike that sparked nationwide protests
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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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