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WASHINGTON -- To be young, male and black in America means not being allowed to make mistakes. Forgetting this, as we've seen so many times, can be fatal. The case of Michael Brown, who was laid to rest Monday, is anomalous only in that it is so extreme: an unarmed black teenager riddled with bullets by a white police officer in a community plagued by racial tension. African-Americans make up 67 percent of the population of Ferguson, Mo., but there are just four black officers on the 53-member police force -- which responded to peaceful demonstrations by rolling out military-surplus...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The first openly gay bishop in the Anglican church has announced he is divorcing his husband.

Let's play where is Vicky!

The wife of the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — a Democratic favorite to run against Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and reclaim the seat her husband held —has ruled herself out of the race, leaving the Democratic primary field wide open. Victoria Reggie Kennedy had been heavily courted by Democrats to run for the seat, but she told New England Cable News in an interview aired last night that it’s “not for me.” “No, I’ve consistently said, ‘Not for me. Not for me,’ ” Kennedy told the station. “I’m very flattered, but you know . . . really,...