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(http://cour.at/TrQFyH) that the remains of Adam Lanza were claimed several days ago by someone who wanted to remain anonymous.
• A spokeswoman at Carver's office told The Associated Press she could not release details about the status of Lanza's remains.
• The 20-year-old Lanza killed 20 first-graders and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. He also killed his mother in their Newtown home before going on the rampage and then committing suicide.
• A private funeral was held earlier this month in New Hampshire for his mother, Nancy Lanza.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- On the eve of a new year, a libertarian strain pulses through America -- a get-government-out-of-my-personal-life sensibility that cuts across ideologies and is driven by a younger generation's cultural attitudes.
• We've seen it in gay-marriage legalization and marijuana decriminalization. And in the fact that, four decades after Roe v. Wade allowed abortion, there's little appetite among most for overturning it. Perhaps we've also seen this play out with guns, with a more limited role for government in regulating firearms.
• But today, a mourning nation must square that shift toward fewer gun restrictions with a soaring number of mass shootings, the latest claiming 20 elementary school students among the dead. And the pendulum may swing just as quickly back toward curbs on gun rights: A country that's become more tolerant on other cultural issues may end up bucking the trend on this subject.
• Here's why: It can't be boiled down to "my body, my decisions."
• The gun issue doesn't fit neatly into the libertarian lane in which the United States has been driving when it comes to gay marriage, abortion and marijuana -- the belief that people have the right to make their own decisions about how they live their lives, as long as they respect the rights of others to do the same. And that's because while it may be your right to own a gun, you can use it to harm others, thereby taking away their right to live their lives as they want.
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• ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A kid for Kimye: Kanye West and Kim Kardashian

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