Ben Jealous

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The NAACP and President Ben Jealous have launched what it says will be its biggest ever push to register voters ahead of the 2012 election.

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Congressional Black Caucus rallies preachers to tackle voter-ID laws

By William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers

The Congressional Black Caucus is asking African-American ministers to help educate voters about complying with new state voting laws, which they see as designed to suppress the black vote in November's elections. » read more

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North Carolina WWII veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor Swede Boreen takes in the WWII memorial on April 18, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)

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On Memorial Day veterans remember soldiers who didn't come home

Elinor J. Brecher | The Miami Herald

Memorial Day was established in 1868 to honor Civil War soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. Originally called Decoration Day, for the tradition of decorating graves of the fallen with flowers, it became a national holiday in 1971, observed annually on the last Monday in May. » read more

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Special report: Honor Tarnished

McClatchy found errors and embellishments in the Marine Corps' Medal of Honor nomination for Dakota Meyer, whose deeds have been retold in a book and numerous news reports.

Special report: Chimp research

Chimpanzees at a federal primate facility are at the center of an impassioned debate between the National Institutes of Health and the animal-rights community.

Special report: Military Injustice

An ongoing McClatchy probe reveals troubling flaws in the nation's military justice system, from an error-ridden crime lab to botched death penalty cases and ethical conflicts.

Special report: Afghan contracts

The U.S. program to spend billions of dollars on Afghanistan's facilities is failing. Corruption, nepotism and mismanagement hobble the reconstruction.

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Read McClatchy coverage of Afghanistan and South Asia from correspondents in Kabul and Islamabad, as well as our national security team in Washington.

More on Camp Lejeune water

Scientists studying water contamination at Camp Lejeune have learned of another source of leaking fuel near a drinking well that served thousands of Marines and their families.

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