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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks during a news conference in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Bernanke. The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it will maintain the pace of its bond-buying program to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. But it offered a more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy and job market. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Fed suggests it's closer to slowing bond purchasesFed sticks with bond purchases but offers brighter outlook for the economy
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The remains of a 1987 Suzuki Samurai sits outside Richard Hoffman's house on Hardin Road in Colorado Springs, Colo., as some residents were allowed to return to their homes Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The Black Forest fire has destroyed 502 homes and charred more than 22 square miles. It was 85 percent contained Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Christian Murdock) MAGS OUT
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A woman holds a poster against drones during a demonstration against the upcoming visit of United States President Barack Obama in Berlin, Monday, June 17, 2013. President Obama will visit the German capital on Tuesday, June 18, and Wednesday June 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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A trailer arrives at the scene of the search by the FBI in Oakland Township, Mich., Wednesday, June 19, 2013 where Robert Foley, special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit division, announced the FBI was ending the search operations for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa. Authorities have pursued multiple leads as to Hoffa's whereabouts since his disappearance in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Greece's left-wing opposition leader Alexis Tsipras, center, meets with representatives of ERT employees during his visit at Greek state television ERT headquarters in Athens, on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Fired ERT employees have continued unauthorized broadcasts since the broadcaster’s June 11 closure, streamed mostly online and on disused analog frequencies. Greece's governing coalition parties met for a second time in three days to try and end a political crisis triggered by the closure of state broadcaster ERT.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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FILE - In a Sept. 2, 2005 file photo, best-selling author Vince Flynn poses with the dust jacket of his new book, "Consent to Kill," and copies of his six other books in his home in Edina, Minn. Flynn died, Wednesday, June 18, 2013, after a two-year battle with prostate cancer, a statement from Flynn's publisher, Simon & Schuster, Inc., said. He was 47. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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People shout out against the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act in the hall outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Greece's left-wing opposition leader Alexis Tsipras, center, meets with representatives of ERT employees during his visit at Greek state television ERT headquarters in Athens, on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Fired ERT employees have continued unauthorized broadcasts since the broadcaster’s June 11 closure, streamed mostly online and on disused analog frequencies. Greece's governing coalition parties met for a second time in three days to try and end a political crisis triggered by the closure of state broadcaster ERT.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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FILE - In a Sept. 2, 2005 file photo, best-selling author Vince Flynn poses with the dust jacket of his new book, "Consent to Kill," and copies of his six other books in his home in Edina, Minn. Flynn died, Wednesday, June 18, 2013, after a two-year battle with prostate cancer, a statement from Flynn's publisher, Simon & Schuster, Inc., said. He was 47. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks during a news conference in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Bernanke. The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it will maintain the pace of its bond-buying program to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. But it offered a more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy and job market. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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  • Va. cabbie pursues charges after anti-Muslim rant

    For the second time in as many months, a Muslim civil rights group is pursuing criminal charges on behalf of a taxicab driver who was subjected to an anti-Islamic rant caught on tape. York Dispatch, Tue, Jun 18 2013 @ 08:24 PM

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  • Herndon man convicted of theft from former employer

    A Loudoun County Jury convicted a Herndon man June 17 of burglary and grand larceny and recommended more than seven years in prison. Loudoun Times, Tue, Jun 18 2013 @ 06:56 PM

  • Leesburg woman indicted for first-degree murder

    A Leesburg woman charged in the December shooting death of a Sterling man was among 36 indicted June 10 by a Loudoun County Grand Jury. Loudoun Times, Tue, Jun 18 2013 @ 06:56 PM

  • GOP is losing its grip on Virginia

    LEESBURG, Va. Downtown Leesburg offers a portrait of attachment to the past: Federal-style buildings line the streets, and the courthouse square features both a plaque commemorating a reading in 1776 of the Declaration of Independence and a statute honoring Confederate soldiers. Journalgazette.net, Tue, Jun 18 2013 @ 02:39 PM
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On June 19, 1953,

Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y.

In 1862,

Congress passed, and President Abraham Lincoln signed, a measure abolishing slavery in U.S. territories.

In 1865,

Union troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free.

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