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Obama voices his support for gay marriage

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Equivocal no longer, President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday in a historic announcement that instantly gave the polarizing social issue a more prominent role in the 2012 race for the White House....
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Hairstyling pioneer Vidal Sassoon dies at 84 in LA

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Vidal Sassoon used his hairstyling shears to free women from beehives and hot rollers and give them wash-and-wear cuts that made him an international name in hair care....
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2 Calif. officers to be tried in homeless death

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
SANTA 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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Report: Appeals court chokes off Gitmo reviews

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An academic analysis finds that the federal appeals court in Washington has effectively blunted a 2008 Supreme Court decision giving terrorist suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval brig the right to contest their confinement....
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Honda wins appeal of small-claims hybrid judgment

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
LOS 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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Saudis emerge as key US ally against terrorists

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
WASHINGTON (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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Suspect in torture of Ark. woman arrested in Tenn.

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
HOT 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....
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Pilot who helped fly crippled jet in 1989 dies

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
CHICAGO (AP) -- Airline pilot Denny Fitch was hitching a ride home on a DC-10 in 1989 when heard an explosion somewhere in the back of the jet. He soon made his way to the cockpit to see if the crew needed help....
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AP-GfK Poll: Afghan war support drops to new low

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan has hit a new low and is on par with support for the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, a bad sign for President Barack Obama as he argues that to end the war responsibly the United States must remain in Afghanistan another two years....
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AP-GfK Poll: Afghan war support drops to new low

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Support for the war in Afghanistan has hit a new low and is on par with support for the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, a bad sign for President Barack Obama as he argues that to end the war responsibly the United States must remain in Afghanistan another two years....
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Mueller: Plot shows need for surveillance power

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- FBI Director Robert Mueller urged Congress on Wednesday to renew wide-ranging surveillance authority to thwart terrorism plots like the latest one in which an al-Qaida-engineered explosive device was to have been detonated on a U.S.-bound airline flight....
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AP-GfK Poll: Women, blacks, help Obama in new poll

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's popularity among women, minorities and independents is giving him an early edge over his likely GOP rival, Mitt Romney, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll....
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House votes to renew charter of Ex-Im Bank

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 05:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Wednesday to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank, culminating a struggle that has split Republicans between pro-bank business groups and anti-big government conservatives seeking to have it dismantled....
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