John Robert Lewis (born 1940), a veteran of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the citizens of Atlanta, Georgia, in 1986.John R. Lewis, a nativ...
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The Los Angeles Zoo's oldest elephant is poised to live out her remaining days at an animal sanctuary in central California after years of lobbying by animal activists for her retirement to a prese...
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The Los Angeles Zoo paid $4,500 to an expert in the ancient Chinese art of feng shui to ensure three endangered golden monkeys on loan from China can have a strong life force.Consulting the feng sh...
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Black leaders in Congress asked the federal government Tuesday to weigh in on the legality of a vote by the Cherokee Nation earlier this month to revoke citizenship from descendants of former triba...
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"The world has lost one of our greatest journalists. Our heartfelt sympathy goes to David's family." _ Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman, The New York Times Co.; publisher, The New York Times___"Davi...
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At sunrise Tuesday, hundreds of people _ most tapping the ground with white canes and a few making the trip on in-line skates _ marched from a downtown hotel to a city park more than half a mile aw...
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Citing a parade of witnesses who have since recanted, the Vatican joined supporters of a condemned and urged Georgia's governor to commute his sentence.Troy Anthony Davis had been scheduled to be e...
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U.S. experts who made a key visit to North Korea's Yongbyon
nuclear complex in 2004 arrived Tuesday in Pyongyang for another trip
to the country, at a time when the six-party denuclearization...
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John Robert Lewis
L.A. Zoo elephant to go to sanctuary
