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Two Irish groups regularly fly the Confederate flag and one of the flags was seen on television on Sunday at a major sporting event despite the weekend deaths in Charlottesville and the white supremacist supporters widely waving the Confederate flag. It also flew Sunday at Dublin’s premier sporting grounds in Croke Park in Dublin. Supporters of the Cork team, which played Waterford in the All-Ireland hurling semifinal before over 72,000 people in Croke Park, were seen flying the flag during television coverage of Sunday’s game. The Cork hurling and football teams are known as “The Rebels” and have long used...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama celebrated a quiet Thanksgiving at the White House Thursday and called several members of armed forces to thank them for their service to the country.

A high school student who vomited on his Spanish teacher has been charged with battery against a school official. Prosecutors said the vomiting was intentional, and the teacher, David Young, called the act “outrageous.” “I think a message is being sent by both the school district and the district attorney that this behavior will not be tolerated,” Young said. The student's father said his son told him he did not mean to throw up on the teacher but had been made uncontrollably ill by the stress of final exams.