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Organizing for Action — a group that formed out of President Obama's re-election campaign — has focused its ire on Republicans it calls "climate change deniers." But some environmentalists are frustrated with the president himself on issues like the Keystone pipeline.

Elysha O'Brien calls herself a "Mexican white girl." Not just because of her ethnically ambiguous appearance, she says, but also because she can't speak Spanish. Fearing their children would experience discrimination if they spoke Spanish, her parents chose not to teach them their native tongue.

Federal prisoners can request compassionate release if they are terminally ill, but a recent investigation found that many die while their requests drift through the system. Now, prison leaders say they will simplify the approval process and start tracking requests electronically.

Our closest relatives, chimpanzees and gorillas, breast-feed their offspring for several years. Some baby orangutans nurse until they are 7 years old. Researchers found a way to test ancient teeth for clues about when humans cut nursing short.

A Manhattan judge upholds a lower court ruling that $210 million worth of unredeemed gift cards from the defunct book chain are no longer valid.

The family of a serving soldier killed in a suspected terror attack in south-east London have requested that his identity is not released at this stage.

King Edward VIII was bugged by the government at the height of the 1936 abdication crisis, files released by the National Archives show.

Family doctors are not prepared to shore up an emergency health care system left unsafe by "political meddling", a GP leader has warned.

Nissan says it plans to recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide, 133,869 of them in the UK, due to a faulty steering wheel.

Five men are arrested after a child tells of being sexually assaulted at a children's nursery in Worcestershire.