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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Republican Gov. Matt Bevin ordered the state to prepare new marriage licenses that do not include the names of county clerks in an attempt to protect the religious beliefs of clerk Kim Davis and other local elected officials. The executive order comes after Davis, the Rowan
muslim
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Muslims helped dress non-Muslims passengers in Islamic garb, to prevent extremists from identifying them for slaughter on a bus in northern Kenya, witnesses said. Two people died in the attacks on Monday in northern Mandera County when gunmen believed to be Somalia's al-Shabab rebels shot
Democratic primary
WASHINGTON (AP) — There may be one more Clinton on the campaign trail next fall. Chelsea Clinton, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, announced Monday that she is expecting her second child next summer.
migrants
GENEVA (AP) — More than 1 million refugees and "irregular migrants" have entered Europe in this record-breaking year, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday, a symbolic milestone driven by war, poverty and persecution in the Middle East and Africa. With just days left in 2015, the Geneva-based intergovernmental
Taliban
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who disappeared in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, was scheduled to appear Tuesday before a military judge on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. The arraignment will be held at
lawsuit
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Hasbro hit back Friday in a lawsuit over who owns the rights to The Game of Life, flatly denying claims by a toy inventor's widow who says her husband created the board game and that she is owed $2 million or more in royalties.
money
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — Sheet music written by Ludwig van Beethoven and found in a Connecticut home has fetched $100,000 at auction. The Greenwich Time reports (http://bit.ly/1m1pooT) that appraiser Brendan Ryan spotted the sheet music when he visited the home of a Greenwich woman looking to sell
Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Fierce battles were underway Tuesday between Afghan forces and the Taliban in southern Helmand province where the insurgents have almost completely captured a strategic district as Britain announced it was deploying advisers to the restive area. The development came a day after a Taliban suicide bomber killed