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abcnews.go.com — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Eight months after a repeal of the military's "don't ask , don't tell" policy, the U.S. Air Force Academy today graduated its first group of openly gay cadets. As President Obama addressed the graduates, no rainbow flags could be seen on display.

abcnews.go.com — A 20-year-old college student who told investigators he was merely trying to get a reaction from President Barack Obama's supporters pleaded guilty Wednesday to posting threatening messages against the president on Facebook. Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr.

abcnews.go.com — AP Photo/Cliff Owen In a rare glimpse into cyber warfare tactics, a top U.S. official has explicitly acknowledged that the U.S. government hacked into websites run by Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, changing advertisements that boasted about killing Americans into advertisements that underscored the deaths of Muslim civilians in al Qaeda terror attacks.

abcnews.go.com — Iranian dissidents have long suspected that the country's Islamist regime has used the cover of its not-so-covert war with Israel to crack down on internal opponents, and that a leading Iranian nuclear scientist whose death was blamed on Mossad might really have been killed by his own government.

abcnews.go.com — Hundreds of Hot Dogs Fell From the Detroit Sky (David Coates/The Detroit News) Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...a hot dog? Yes, 955 of them of them to be exact.

abcnews.go.com — Stuntman Gary Connery plummeted from 2,400 feet - without a parachute - and landed completely unscathed in the middle of more than 18,000 cardboard boxes in Buckinghamshire, England, today. Connery became the first person to jump out of an aircraft wearing only a wingsuit and land without a parachute, the jump organizers said.

abcnews.go.com — China's Cabinet promised Wednesday to step up efforts to reverse a steep slowdown in the world's second-largest economy and said it would encourage private investment in energy and other state-dominated industries. Chinese leaders have gradually eased controls imposed over the past two years to cool an overheated economy and inflation.

abcnews.go.com — Credit: John McConnico/AP Photo The Library of Congress today tapped 25 recordings, from spoken-word pieces to Donna Summer's 1977 hit "I Feel Love" and an album from "A Charlie Brown Christmas," to be inducted into its National Recording Registry in its 10th year.

abcnews.go.com — Iranian dissidents have long suspected that the country's Islamist regime has used the cover of its not-so-covert war with Israel to crack down on internal opponents, and that a leading Iranian nuclear scientist whose death was blamed on Mossad might really have been killed by his own government.

abcnews.go.com — Just six months after issuing its latest warning about chicken jerky dog treats made in China, the Food and Drug Administration confirms it has logged more than 900 complaints from pet owners who say their dogs either were sickened or died after eating the treats.