Pentagon to announce plans this week to lift ban on transgendered troops: Reports

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6. I use an old browser, and not every newspaper's page opens correctly.

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Sometimes it will stall during loading. I try to go to the source, but I have to go with the page that opens. This was an Associated Press report, so any paper that is a member of AP should have the basic story. What's localized is the headline provided by the paper. Given a choice, I try to pick the source that (in addition to loading properly) has the headline that makes the most sense to people. Reporting on decisions made by county commissioners can be troublesome. A headline like "Jefferson says no" is meaningless to anyone who does not know that the real story is "Jefferson County, Alabama, commissioners vote to ban something or other," to invent an example.

It's LBN, so I try to give as much information as I can without breaking the LBN rules.

I have an Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual sitting right next to me, but it's not new enough to cover this. Mine is the 1996 edition.

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