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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A teenager is suing her school district for barring her from the prom last spring because she was wearing a dress styled as a large Confederate battle flag. The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court claims the Greenup County district and administrators violated Jacqueline Duty's First Amendment right to free speech and her right to celebrate her heritage at predominantly white Russell High School's prom May 1. She also is suing for defamation, false imprisonment and assault. "Her only dance for her senior prom was on the sidewalk to a song playing on the radio,"...

It was on this day in 1865 that Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Virginia town of Appomattox Court House, marking the end of our Second War for Independence. But April 9 holds an even greater significance: it is the 139th anniversary of the death of these United States of America. The signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, saw the birth of a new nation. It was not a single, monolithic entity but a confederation of free and independent states. Although the original 13 colonies had existed in relative unity...