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Comedian, civil rights activist Dick Gregory dies at 84
![Comedian, civil rights activist Dick Gregory dies at 84](http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_WtuLqHy_Hqvz5AndnYnTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2017-08-20T075953Z_1_LYNXNPED7J03Z_RTROPTP_2_PEOPLE-DICKGREGORY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Comedian, civil rights activist Dick Gregory dies at 84)
"It is with enormous sadness that the Gregory family confirms that their father, comedic legend and civil rights activist Mr. Dick Gregory departed this earth tonight in Washington, D.C.," his son, Christian, wrote on Instagram. Gregory, who lived in Washington, checked into Sibley Memorial Hospital a week ago after falling ill, said his longtime publicist Steve Jaffe. Gregory's success as a comedian in the early 1960s helped pave the way for other black comics, such as Richard Pryor, to gain greater fame by reaching a mainstream audience. Sun, 20 Aug 2017 03:58:50 -0400
Boston march against hate speech avoids Charlottesville chaos
By Scott Malone and Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Boston on Saturday to protest a "free speech" rally featuring far-right speakers a week after a woman was killed at a Virginia white-supremacist demonstration. Rally organizers had invited several far-right speakers who were confined to a small pen that police set up in the historic Boston Common park to keep the two sides separate. The city avoided a repeat of last weekend's bloody street battles in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one woman was killed. Sun, 20 Aug 2017 01:52:16 -0400
No winner of Powerball jackpot - prize grows to $650 million
By Peter Szekely NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobody won a Powerball jackpot of $535 million in a draw on Saturday night, meaning the grand prize will grow to about $650 million, the second-highest level in the history of the Powerball. With no winner of the grand prize, it will grow to an estimated $650 million ahead of the next draw on Wednesday, according to the website for the game. The highest-ever Powerball jackpot was nearly $1.6 billion in a January 2016 draw, which was split between three winning tickets. Sun, 20 Aug 2017 01:32:11 -0400
U.S. warship Indianapolis found 18,000 feet deep in Pacific Ocean![U.S. warship Indianapolis found 18,000 feet deep in Pacific Ocean](http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IYR_t4XjcTP.HYmMRLvMKw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2017-08-20T011222Z_1_LYNXNPED7J009_RTROPTP_2_USA-SHIPWRECK.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="U.S. warship Indianapolis found 18,000 feet deep in Pacific Ocean)
(Reuters) - Researchers have found the wreckage of the U.S. warship Indianapolis, which was sunk by a Japanese torpedo in the final days of World War Two, more than 18,000 feet (5.5 kilometers) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, the Navy said on Saturday. The cruiser was returning from its mission to deliver components for the atomic bomb that would soon be dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima when it was fired upon in the North Pacific Ocean by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945. After a Navy historian unearthed new information in 2016 about the warship's last movements that pointed to a new search area, a team of civilian researchers led by Paul Allen, a Microsoft Corp co-founder, spent months searching in a 600-square-mile (1,500-square-kilometer) patch of ocean. Sat, 19 Aug 2017 21:12:22 -0400
South Carolina aquarium to monitor animal behavior during eclipse
By Nathan Frandino CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Animals in the path of the first total solar eclipse to travel across the United States in 99 years have a big surprise awaiting them on Monday afternoon, biologists say. Zoos, aquariums and other wildlife parks see the celestial phenomenon as a special research opportunity to observe how birds and mammals react when the moon's shadow blots out most of the sun's light in the middle of the day, experts say. The South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, the last spot over which the total eclipse will pass during its coast-to-coast journey, will carefully monitor the behavior of creatures during the minute and 36 seconds when the area goes dark. Sat, 19 Aug 2017 21:08:11 -0400
Boston march against hate speech avoids Charlottesville chaos![Boston march against hate speech avoids Charlottesville chaos](http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Qq9Yai_2LZMeqFY8ePUsOg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2017-08-19T190010Z_1_LYNXNPED7I0FW_RTROPTP_2_USA-PROTESTS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Boston march against hate speech avoids Charlottesville chaos)
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Boston on Saturday to protest a "free speech" rally featuring far-right speakers a week after a woman was killed at a Virginia white-supremacist demonstration. Rally organizers had invited several far-right speakers who were confined to a small pen that police set up in the historic Boston Common park to keep the two sides separate. The city avoided a repeat of last weekend's bloody street battles in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one woman was killed. Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:35:14 -0400
Bannon's exit not seen to signal Trump shift to center![Bannon's exit not seen to signal Trump shift to center](http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/x1OBfirn5vXx1ZFfvMTntQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2017-08-19T213243Z_1_LYNXNPED7I0I8_RTROPTP_2_USA-TRUMP.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Bannon's exit not seen to signal Trump shift to center)
By John Walcott and Steve Holland WASHINGTON/BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's ouster of chief strategist Steve Bannon is unlikely to mark the abandonment of the administration's "America First" agenda that has unnerved investors and trade partners and split the White House into nationalist and globalist camps. Within hours of leaving Trump's administration on Friday, Bannon was back at the helm of Breitbart News, the hard-right news site he ran before becoming the main architect of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Bannon can now do more to further conservative causes because "he can speak his mind" without the constraints of working in the White House, Rick Weatherly, 61, a maintenance technician from the Denver suburb of Lakewood, said on Saturday. Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:32:43 -0400
Millions of Americans to gaze upon Monday's once-in-a-lifetime eclipse![Millions of Americans to gaze upon Monday's once-in-a-lifetime eclipse](http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/W6szmxBhjwM6WpxSbbRKxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2017-08-19T102856Z_1_LYNXNPED7I06G_RTROPTP_2_SOLAR-ECLIPSE-USA-PREVIEW.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Millions of Americans to gaze upon Monday's once-in-a-lifetime eclipse)
The sight of the moon's shadow passing directly in front of the sun, blotting out all but the halo-like solar corona, may draw the largest live audience for a celestial event in human history. "It will certainly be the most observed total eclipse in history," astronomer Rick Fienberg of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) said last week. The eclipse begins its cross-country trajectory over the Pacific Coast of Oregon in late morning. Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:09:25 -0400
Two Florida police officers fatally shot, suspect arrested
In an unrelated shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, a man who shot and wounded two officers was killed when police returned fire, authorities said, while two Pennsylvania state troopers suffered gunshot wounds after exchanging fire with a suspect who later died, local media reported. Kissimmee Officer Matthew Baxter, 27, was shot and killed and Sergeant Richard "Sam" Howard was fatally wounded in an altercation with three men on Friday. With the help of surveillance video, police arrested Everett Miller, 45, at a bar around 11:30 p.m. Miller, who was carrying 9 mm handgun and revolver when arrested, was charged with first-degree murder for the death of Baxter, O'Dell said. Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:56:58 -0400
Boston police arrest 27 people during protests around 'Free Speech' rally
BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston police arrested 27 people in protests surrounding a "Free Speech" rally, Police Commissioner William Evans told reporters on Saturday. Most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct, with some for assault and battery during scuffles between police and protesters, Evans said. (Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn) Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:46:47 -0400