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This Nov. 22, 1963 file photo shows President John F. Kennedy riding in motorcade with first lady Jacqueline Kenndy in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo, file)

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The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK
By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press
Thu,03/20/25-5:54PM , 281 Reads
A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State Department control of “all clandestine activities” and breaking up the CIA.
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In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly at half-staff at Camp Justice, Aug. 29, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Attorneys are suing to keep 10 migrants out of Guantanamo Bay as others say they were abused there
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Sat,03/01/25-1:23PM , 78 Reads
Civil rights attorneys sued the Trump administration Saturday to prevent it from transferring 10 migrants detained in the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and filed statements from men held there who said they were mistreated there in conditions that of one of them called “a living hell.”
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Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin speaks at a news conference in downtown Little Rock, Ark., on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.(AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo, File)

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Backlash leads Republican attorneys general to declare support for a landmark disability rights law
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Fri,02/21/25-3:48PM , 66 Reads
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican state attorneys general are declaring their continued support for a landmark federal law protecting disabled people's rights, after parents expressed fears of losing services for their disabled children because of a GOP lawsuit opposing transgender rights.
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A historical exhibit at the Kansas Statehouse includes a display quoting President Abraham Lincoln next to a map showing the original extent of the Kansas-Nebraska territories before Kansas became a state and Lincoln took office in 1861, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Topeka, Kansas. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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George has his day, and so does Abe. But states honor US presidents in lots of ways
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Sat,02/15/25-11:07PM , 67 Reads
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Is Presidents Day the most confusing holiday in the U.S.?
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