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(AP) Britain's House of Commons has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in England and Wales.The legislation, backed by Prime Minister David Cameron, passed by a vote of 366 to 161 on Tuesday.The bill will now move to the House ...
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(AP) Gay rights advocates are rallying around an 18-year-old central Florida girl who was expelled from school and charged with having sexual contact with her 14-year-old girlfriend.Kaitlyn Hunt was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a ...
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(AP) The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph.Spokeswoman Keli Pirtle said Tuesday the agency upgraded the tornado from an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale ...
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(AP) The mother of a 13-year-old West Texas cheerleader found dead in March said Tuesday that since her daughter went missing more than two years ago she had feared the worst, including that the girl was chained and tortured or had ...
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(AP) An town Iowa letter carrier has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for sending dud pipe bombs with threatening letters signed "The Bishop."U.S. District Judge Robert Dow issued the sentence Tuesday afternoon, saying John Tomkins "engaged in a reign ...
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(AP) Four falcon chicks living on the bridge spanning the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey have gotten identifying bands around their legs.Their mother's squawks competed with the din of rush-hour traffic on the George Washington Bridge on Tuesday.The chicks ...
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(AP) Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed five Yemenis convicted of crimes and displayed their bodies in public as a deterrent for future criminals, the government said.The Interior Ministry said the five were convicted of setting up a gang that carried out ...
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(AP) The White House says President Barack Obama opposes a House bill that would speed approval of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.The White House said Tuesday that the bill "seeks to circumvent longstanding and proven processes" ...
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(AP) Top lawmakers and officials say the federal government has plenty of money on hand to pay for recovery efforts in the devastating tornado that struck Oklahoma.The government has more than $11 billion in its main disaster relief fund. Recovery costs ...
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(AP) The fire chief in the Oklahoma City suburb raked by a massive tornado says the search for survivors and the dead is almost complete.Fire Chief Gary Bird said Tuesday that he's "98 percent sure" there are no more survivors or ...
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(AP) An exceptionally devastating tornado hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday afternoon, twisting through subdivisions and across a highway, leaving debris and confusion in its wake. Some of the storm's effects can be measured in numbers:24The number of ...
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(AP) An emergency official says Oklahoma has reinforced tornado shelters in hundreds of schools across the state, but the two that were hit by this week's storms in suburban Oklahoma City did not have them.Albert Ashwood is director of the Oklahoma ...
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(AP) The eight candidates approved Tuesday for Iran's June 14 presidential election to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who cannot run again because of term limits.___ALI AKBAR VELAYATI: Top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on international affairs. Velayati, 67, served as ...
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(AP) Spain's development minister is urging Brazil to hire some of the engineers that her own economy doesn't have room for.Brazil is beefing up its infrastructure ahead of soccer's World Cup and the Olympics. And Minister Ana Pastor says Spanish engineers ...
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(AP) A Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses under the nation's military dictatorship says that those it finds guilty of torture could be brought to trial.A 1979 amnesty law protects civilians and military personnel from liability for politically motivated crimes committed ...
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(AP) Three former Ford Motor Co. executives have been charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina for allegedly targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.All three men are in their 80s now, and their case ...
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(AP) Officials say a 59-year-old German mountaineer has died of cardiac arrest while climbing Alaska's Mount McKinley.National Park Service officials say Klaus Bielstein of Muenster, Germany, was climbing North America's tallest peak with an 11-member expedition team Sunday evening when he ...
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(AP) Officials say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month and transferred to another facility.Tuesday's brief statement by the defense ministry health service said Bouteflika "left Val-de-Grace hospital today ...
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(AP) Dozens of Mohandas Gandhi's personal items have been sold at an auction, but a sample of blood purportedly from the Indian independence leader didn't draw high enough bids.The memorabilia offered by British auction house Mullock's in Ludlow, England, included a ...
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(AP) The White House says President Barack Obama believes journalists shouldn't be prosecuted for doing their jobs.White House spokesman Jay Carney says he can't comment on any specific government investigation into leaks of classified information. But he says Obama believes the ...
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(AP) Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.Meteorologists contacted by ...
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(AP) Defenders of New Hampshire's enviable role in presidential politics are paying tribute to the past while keeping an eye on the future.Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the state law that led to the creation of the modern presidential primary. ...
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(AP) A federal court in San Francisco has struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless there's a medical emergency.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the law violates a string of U.S. Supreme ...
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(AP) A Moroccan court has convicted two men of homosexuality and public indecency, and sentenced each to four months in prison, in the latest case against gays in this North African nation.Prosecutors at the Temara court near Rabat, the capital, said ...
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(AP) Thousands of women have taken to the streets in Togo to protest the death of an opposition figure who had been jailed.Tuesday's march comes nearly two weeks ago after the death of Etienne Yakanou.Authorities say he suffered from malaria. His ...
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