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Billy Graham loved God, lemon cake and Vienna sausages

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Billy Graham loved God, lemon cake and Vienna sausages

The American evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, 99, has

'Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it'

The world's best-known evangelist, the Rev. Billy Graham, died Wednesday at 99. He found God as a gangly 16-year-old in North Carolina. Then, over nearly six decades, he became America's pastor. Millions around the world heard the Gospel through Graham's 417 all-out preaching events known as crusades. He packed stadiums . He counseled presidents. He befriended Johnny Cash and led Kathie Lee Gifford's family to Christ. He loved lemon cake and Vienna sausages from the can. "Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead," Graham once said. "Don't you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God."

They just survived a school shooting. Now they take on lawmakers.

Chants of "Never again" and "Shame on you" rang out Wednesday at Florida's state Capitol in Tallahassee. Student survivors from the shooting one week ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland rallied alongside hundreds of peers from other schools to demand change from lawmakers. The rally came a day after Florida House lawmakers overwhelmingly rejected a ban on many semiautomatic rifles, leaving students there speechless. At the White House on Wednesday, President Trump promised tougher background checks for gun buyers: "It's not going to be talk like it has been in the past." Students and others still plan to march on the nation's capital March 24.

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A mother's nightmare at a Mexico resort

She didn't walk out. Karen Newton knows that much about the night her 22-year-old daughter disappeared from a luxury resort in Mexico's alluring Riviera Maya. She couldn't walk. Her daughter had clearly been drugged when a friend escorted her back to their room from the beach bar. Newton drifted to sleep. When she woke at 4:30 a.m., her daughter was gone. Newton's description is among the 140 accounts of vacationers blacking out at Mexico resorts and a strong indication of sinister motives.

A real-life 'Animal House' in the NBA

Sexual misconduct claims in a bombshell Sports Illustrated report have resulted in the Dallas Mavericks launching an independent investigation into its organization. Two women told the magazine that CEO Terdema Ussery made requests for sex and touched women's legs during meetings, among other forms of harassment. One ex-employee called the team "a real-life Animal House ." Team owner Mark Cuban — who will pay $600,000 for unrelated comments about the team — called the reported conduct "abhorrent" and "not a situation we condone."

Supreme Court to Wall Street: Think twice before whistle-blowing

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that employees aren't safe from retaliation if they blow the whistle on alleged corporate misdeeds without going to the Securities and Exchange Commission. That limits 2010 whistle-blower protections meant to crack down on Wall Street fraud and abuse, a huge win for conservatives favoring strict interpretations of the law and a loss for the consumer groups that lobbied for it.

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