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Americans divided as Obama endorses gay marriage
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:19AM May 10, 2012 CommentIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Kate Varnum was at her Iowa home watching her newly adopted infant son when news flashed that Barack Obama had become the first sitting U.S. president to endorse equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.
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Americans react to Obama's support of gay marriage
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:01AM May 10, 2012 CommentAmericans react after President Barack Obama voiced his support for gay marriage:
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Oil boom resurrects North Dakota ghost town
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:14AM May 10, 2012 CommentDORE, N.D. (AP) — For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted.
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Nicholas Katzenbach dies; Kennedy, Johnson aide
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:03AM May 10, 2012 CommentTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Nicholas Katzenbach, whose eight years in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations helped shape some of the most important events of the 1960s, has died. He was 90.
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International adoptions drop amid fraud crackdowns
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:24AM May 10, 2012 CommentHANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The number of international adoptions has fallen to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place more children with domestic families.
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Parents reveal secret attempts to free US soldier
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:43PM May 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Frustrated by what they said are stalled efforts to free a U.S. soldier taken prisoner three years ago in Afghanistan, the man's parents have gone public with previously secret U.S. attempts to trade him for Taliban prisoners in U.S. hands.
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Jury deliberates in Hudson family killings
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:31PM May 09, 2012 CommentCHICAGO (AP) — Jurors deliberated late into the night Wednesday without reaching a verdict after sitting through sometimes heated and embittered closing arguments at the Chicago trial of the man accused of slaying Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.
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AP source: Feds investigate leak in terrorism case
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:47PM May 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators are conducting a probe into who leaked information about an al-Qaida plot in which an explosive device was to have been detonated on a U.S.-bound airline flight, a law enforcement official said Wednesday.
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House panel OKs missile defense site on East Coast
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:12PM May 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday backed construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast, rejecting Pentagon arguments that the facility is unnecessary and Democratic complaints that the nearly $5 billion project amounts to wasteful spending in a time of tight budgets.
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Justice Dept. plans to sue Arizona sheriff Arpaio
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:59PM May 09, 2012 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — Federal authorities said Wednesday that they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos.
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Obama voices his support for gay marriage
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:28PM May 09, 2012 Comment (1)WASHINGTON (AP) — On the fence no longer, President Barack Obama declared his unequivocal support for gay marriage on Wednesday, a historic announcement that gave the polarizing social issue a more prominent role in the 2012 race for the White House.
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Bachmann becomes a citizen of Switzerland
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:17PM May 09, 2012 CommentMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has been granted citizenship in Switzerland.
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Putin pulls out of US summit, meeting with Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:56PM May 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is skipping a planned visit to the United States this month for an economic summit and a much-anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama, the White House announced Wednesday.
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2 Calif officers to be tried in homeless death
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:47PM May 09, 2012 CommentSANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Two Southern California police officers were ordered Wednesday to stand trial in the death of a mentally ill homeless man following a violent arrest last summer.
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Excruciating details emerge on Jewish ghettos
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:18PM May 09, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Even after decades of in-depth Holocaust research, excruciating details are only now emerging about more than 1,100 German-run ghettos in Eastern Europe where the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews.
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US urged to complete probe of 2010 border death
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:22PM May 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The mother of a Mexican man who died after U.S. border authorities shot him several times with a stun gun in San Diego began a visit to the nation's capital Wednesday to demand answers in an investigation that has lasted nearly two years.
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Panel cuts foreign aid, military aid to Pakistan
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:13PM May 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel on Wednesday moved to cut the foreign aid budget by some 9 percent, targeting economic aid and contributions to the United Nations and the World Bank.
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Saudis emerge as key US ally against terrorists
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:48PM May 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A decade after hijackers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the United States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the U.S. against al-Qaida's spinoff group in Yemen and at least twice have disrupted plots to explode sophisticated bombs aboard airlines.
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Honda wins appeal of small-claims hybrid judgment
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:39PM May 09, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge overturned a nearly $10,000 small claims judgment against American Honda Motor Co. that was won by a car owner who said the automaker misrepresented that her hybrid Civic could get 50 miles per gallon, according to a ruling released Wednesday.
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Suspect in torture of Ark. woman arrested in Tenn.
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:27PM May 09, 2012 CommentHOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas authorities say a woman who was allegedly held against her will and tortured before escaping went with her alleged assailant willingly and was not forcibly abducted, as she initially reported.
