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o cou sconsi er in anon a s "The policy change under d iscussion would allow t h e Six months after the Boy religious, civic or educational Scouts of America reaffirmed organizations t hat o v ersee its long-standing ban on gays, and deliver scouting to deterthe o r g anization s i g naled mine how to address this isMonday that it might retreat sue," spokesman Deron Smith from that prohibition and alsaid in a statement. "The Boy low local groups to decide. Scouts would not, under any The proposed policy shift, circumstances, dictate a powhich the Scouts' national sition to units, members or board will discuss next week parents." in Irving, Texas, follows a deThe proposed changecades-long effort to exclude which is likely to be opposed homosexual boys and adult by some religious organizaleaders. It also coincides with tions and others — is the result growing public support for of "a longstanding dialogue gay rights and pressure on within the Scouting family," the Scoutsfrom corporations, Smith said. "Last year Scouting realsome local governments and even members of its board to ized the policy caused some eliminate the ban. volunteers and chartered orBy Kim Christensen
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ganizations ... to act in conflict with their missions, principles or religious beliefs," he said. "It's important to note this policy would not require any chartered organization to act in w ays inconsistent with that organization's misbeliefs." Although Smith said there was no particular impetus for the proposed change, society's attitudes are shifting. An NBC News/Wall S t r eet J o u rnal Poll conducted in December found that 51 percent favored or strongly favored same-sex marriage, with 40 percent opposed. In 2004, the same poll found 30 percent in favor and 61 percent against.
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for the more than 230 people killed after a fire ignited by a band's
pyrotechnics spectacle swept through a nightclub filled with hundreds of university students early Sunday in the city of Santa Maria in southern Brazil. One of the club's owners and two band
members were arrested for questioning, according to an investigator, Ranolfo Vieira Jr., saying that they could be held for several
days. HurriCane Sandy aid —Congress gave final approval on Monday to an emergency aid package of nearly $51 billion to help millions of victims of Hurricane Sandy, ending the legislation's long and complicatedodyssey. By a 62-36 vote,the Senate approved the measure, with nine Republicans joining 53 Democrats to support it.
The House recently passed the bill, 241-180, after initially refusing to act on it amid objections from fiscal conservatives over its size and its impact on the federal deficit.
Queen Stepping dOWn —TheNetherlands' Queen Beatrix announced Monday that she is ending her reign after 33 years and
passing the crown to her eldest son, who haslong beengroomedto be king but who will have to work hard to match his mother's popularity.
BOdieS ilI MeXiCO —Several bodies found in a well in northern Mexico appear to bemembers of a large, popular musical group and its crew who were reported abducted at gunpoint last weekafter a performance. The authorities on Monday identified four of the dead, all shot to death, as members of the group and said there were indica-
storm system, which has unleashedfloods from north of Brisbane in
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Queensland state to Sydney more than 900 kilometers south in New South Wales and beyond, is the result of a slow but very wet swing
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weapons andmoney, according to U.S. officials briefed on the interdiction. The officials said there were indications that lran wassmuggling the military contraband to insurgents inside Yemen, although they declined to provide details.
Iran SendS mOnkey tO SpaCe —Iranian state television said Monday that the nation had put a monkey into space "as a prelude An unpredictable new element has entered Egypt's
wave of political unrest: a mysterious group of masked youngmen calledtheBlackBlocwho present themselves as the defenders of protesters opposed to the Islamist president's rule.
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to sending humans." Thesuccessful flight involved a relatively small
shaken the country. And on Monday in Port Said, police fired indiscriminately into the streets outside their besieged station, a group of protesters arrived with a crate of gasoline
rocket that went straight up and down, according to the state-sponsored news report, and the monkey survived the flight. Western ex-
perts said the brief experiment appeared to havefew if any immediate military implications.
bombsandotherscheeredamaskedmanonamotorcycle who arrived with a Kalashnikov.
Mississippi oil spill —Experts say the stretch of Mississippi
backagainst Islamists who have attacked protesters in the past — or against police who crack down on
The growing chaos along the vital canal zone showed little sign of abating Monday as President Mohammed
River where vessel traffic was halted after a barge hit a railroad bridge on Sunday is one of the most dangerous along the 2,500-mile-
demonstrations. Theyouths with faces hidden under blackmasks haveappearedamong stone-throwing
Morsi called out thearmy to try to regain control of
long river. Late Monday, cleanup crewswere skimming oily water near Vicksburg, a dayafter a barge strucka bridge, rupturing a com-
They boast that they're willing to use force to fight
protesters in clashes with police around Egypt the
past five days in thewave of political violence that has
three cities along the SuezCanal whose growing lawlessness is testing the integrity of the Egyptian state. — From wire reports
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Brazil fire —The first funerals began before dawn Monday
punishing winds, torrential rains and powerful ocean swells inundated large swaths of the country's two most populous states. The
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AUStl'ullu S'tOI'mS — At least four people havedied andthousands more havebeendisplaced across Australia's east coast as
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reported missing after a performanceThursday night.
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after18 members of the band, Kombo Kolombia, and its crew were
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tions the other eight bodies were of the band.Officials in Nuevo Leon state said12 bodieswerefoundSundayand Monday,afew days
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Guu laWS —Law enforcement leaders who met with President Barack ObamaMonday urged him to focus on strengthening gun
By David Nakamura and Rosalind S. Helderman The Washington Post
WASHINGTON The O bama administration h a s developed its own proposals for immigration reform that are more liberal than a separ ate bipartisan effort in the Senate, including a quicker path to citizenship for i l legal immigrants, people with knowledge of the proposals satd. President Barack Obama is expected to provide some details of the White House plans during an appearance today in La s Vegas, where he wil l c a l l f o r s w eeping changes to the nation's immigration laws. The speech kicks off a public push by the administration in support of the broadest overhaul of immigration Iaw in nearly three decades. Obama plans to praise the r eform p r oposals l ai d o u t Monday by an eight-member Senate working group, saying they reflect the core tenets of the administration's immigration blueprint developed in 2011, a senior administration official said. But the president's remarks also are likely to emphasize differences that could foreshadow roadblocks to passage in Congress at a time when both parties say there is momentum for a comprehensive deal. For example, the Senate proposal would l e t i l l egal immigrants obtain legal residency quickly. But it would not allow them to seek full citizenship until border security had been improved and a new system was in place for
employers to verify the employment status of workers. Obama will n o t e n dorse such a proposal, the administration official said. The president intends to make clear the need for a more straight-
forward route fo r u n documented workers and students to obtain citizenship, reflecting fears among advocates that a cumbersome process would create a decades-long wait for some migrants.
partment holding 80,000 gallons of oil.
Elephant deathS —Tenendangered Borneo pygmy elephants have beenfound dead in aMalaysian forest under mysterious circumstances, andwildlife officials said early today that they probably were poisoned. Carcasses of the baby-faced elephants were found near each other over the past three weeks at the Gunung Rara Forest
Reserve, said Laurentius Ambu, director of the wildlife department in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo island.
Syriu rofugooS — A wave of21,000 Syrian refugees in the past week, moving into northern Jordan at about five times the usual daily rate, has overwhelmed this crowded camp that's already struggling
with flooding, short supplies andtent fires. In a sign of frustration, some refugees pelted a fire truck with stones, cracking its windshield, saying the firefighters were slow to respond. — From wire reports
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