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WASHINGTON (AP) — Data the Defense Department has provided exclusively to The Associated Press shows hundreds of sexual assaults each year against the children of service members, or military dependents. And while the number appears statistically small, it's an incomplete picture because of a lack of transparency into military legal proceedings. But an AP investigation published in November found more inmates are in military prisons for child sex crimes than for any other offense.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama takes aim today at gun violence and unregulated sales. At a meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch and other top law enforcement officials, Obama is expected to finalize a set of new executive actions tightening the nation's gun laws. An effort to expand background checks on gun sales tops the list.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The return of the House to Capitol Hill today features the repeal of President Barack Obama's health care law. It's already passed the Senate, so this time the measure will get to the president's desk for an expected veto. It's a sharply partisan start to a presidential election year in which legislating may take a back seat to politics.
CHICAGO (AP) — The acting head of the authority that investigates complaints against Chicago Police is about to reveal her vision for reforming the agency amid outrage over shootings by police, including a black teenager shot 16 times. Sharon Fairley is scheduled to hold a news conference today. The Chicago Tribune has reported that of 409 shootings investigated by the authority since 2007, only two were found to be unjustified.
PARIS (AP) — The director of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has penned a profanity-laced editorial for a special edition this week about the Jan. 7, 2015 shooting by Islamic extremists. A bloody God armed with a Kalashnikov is on the cover. Laurent Sourisseau, who goes by the name Riss, says the newspaper will remain alive because "never have we wanted so much to break the faces of those who dreamed of our deaths." Seventeen people died in the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket two days later.
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