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Black novelist romances readers with characters they can relate to
Mildred Riley, 91, stumbled into a growing sub-category of romance fiction when she began churning out stories centered around African American characters and history.

It was the height of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s in New York City. The couple had found a beautiful apartment, filled with Art Deco trappings, right down to the frosted swans etched into the shower door.
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Bald eagles at risk in Washington
The only nesting pair in the capital could lose a chunk of its scarce urban habitat to the Department of Homeland Security.

The crraaaack! crraaaack! was so loud that James Tolbert looked out his town house window to investigate, and that's when he saw it -- a snowy white head with yellow eyes soaring into the woods across the street, a tree branch the size of a baseball bat locked in its beak.
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Anti-abortionist spreads his message from jail cell
Scott Roeder, charged with shooting late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, has been sending out pamphlets with writings that say such killings are justifiable.

A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas doctor who performed late-term abortions has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable and communicating with individuals on the fringes of the anti-abortion movement, weeks after suggesting others might be planning similar attacks.
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Time magazine wrong; Obamas still looking for church
A report says the first family had settled on Evergreen Chapel at Camp David. A White House spokeswoman says that's not the case.

Time magazine reported online this week that President Obama and his family had found a new church: Evergreen Chapel at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.
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