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NC votes on constitutional ban on gay marriage

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The national debate over gay marriage focused Tuesday on North Carolina, as voters decided whether to make it the 30th state to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman....
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NC votes on constitutional ban on gay marriage

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The national debate over gay marriage focused Tuesday on North Carolina, as voters decided whether to make it the 30th state to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman....
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Prosecutor: DNA evidence strong in stabbing spree

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- A prosecutor told jurors Tuesday that blood stains, DNA and testimony from survivors would provide enough evidence for a conviction in the first murder trial from a 2010 Michigan stabbing spree that left more than a dozen victims bleeding in Flint-area streets....
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Puerto Rico aims to become fully bilingual by 2022

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The governor of Puerto Rico is trying to do what more than a century of American citizenship has failed to accomplish: make Puerto Ricans fluent in English....

Puerto Rico aims to become fully bilingual by 2022

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The governor of Puerto Rico is trying to do what more than a century of American citizenship has failed to accomplish: make Puerto Ricans fluent in English....

Puerto Rico aims to become fully bilingual by 2022

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The governor of Puerto Rico is trying to do what more than a century of American citizenship has failed to accomplish: make Puerto Ricans fluent in English....

Puerto Rico aims to become fully bilingual by 2022

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The governor of Puerto Rico is trying to do what more than a century of American citizenship has failed to accomplish: make Puerto Ricans fluent in English....

GOP blocks Senate debate on Dem student loan bill

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Tuesday to preserve low interest rates for millions of college students' loans, as the two parties engaged in election-year choreography aimed at showing each is the better protector of families in today's rugged economy....
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GOP blocks Senate debate on Dem student loan bill

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Tuesday to preserve low interest rates for millions of college students' loans, as the two parties engaged in election-year choreography aimed at showing each is the better protector of families in today's rugged economy....

Europe's bad mood: Does Obama need to worry?

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The financial upheaval caused by the recent European elections poses a threat to the United States that could undermine President Barack Obama's efforts to cast himself as the agent of a U.S. economic revival....

Obama and Romney campaigns target Hispanic voters

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign launched a series of Spanish-language television ads in three battleground states on Tuesday. Separately, a Republican official stated that Mitt Romney is "still deciding" his position on immigration, then backtracked. Taken together, the ads and the comment underscored the Democrat's advantages and his Republican opponent's challenge in wooing the nation's fastest-growing ethnic group, Democratic-leaning Hispanics....

Obama and Romney campaigns target Hispanic voters

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign launched a series of Spanish-language television ads in three battleground states on Tuesday. Separately, a Republican official stated that Mitt Romney is "still deciding" his position on immigration, then backtracked. Taken together, the ads and the comment underscored the Democrat's advantages and his Republican opponent's challenge in wooing the nation's fastest-growing ethnic group, Democratic-leaning Hispanics....

Obama and Romney campaigns target Hispanic voters

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign launched a series of Spanish-language television ads in three battleground states on Tuesday. Separately, a Republican official stated that Mitt Romney is "still deciding" his position on immigration, then backtracked. Taken together, the ads and the comment underscored the Democrat's advantages and his Republican opponent's challenge in wooing the nation's fastest-growing ethnic group, Democratic-leaning Hispanics....

Voters skeptical of change in Algeria elections

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) -- In the gritty, working class Algiers suburb of Harrache, activists sporting the green baseball caps of the Islamist "Green" alliance handed out election leaflets outside their party headquarters, urging people to vote....

Officials: Chemical from printer bombs used again

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. officials offered the first clues Tuesday about what they believe made a newly discovered al-Qaida bomb more reliable than one that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner on Christmas 2009....
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Over 1,300 tubes damaged at ailing Cal reactors

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The utility that runs the San Onofre nuclear power plant in California says over 1,300 damaged tubes in its ailing steam generators will be taken out of service....
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Left-wing leader rejects Greek austerity pledge

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The smoldering debate over European austerity flared hotter Tuesday as the left-wing politician trying to form a new Greek government declared that his country is no longer bound by its pledges to impose crippling cutbacks in return for rescue loans....

Left-wing leader rejects Greek austerity pledge

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The smoldering debate over European austerity flared hotter Tuesday as the left-wing politician trying to form a new Greek government declared that his country is no longer bound by its pledges to impose crippling cutbacks in return for rescue loans....

Greek negotiations over govt to continue

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Marathon efforts to break Greece's post-electoral paralysis are lurching into a ninth day amid the country's worst crisis in decades, with fractious party leaders summoned to a yet another emergency meeting Tuesday that could see the reins of government surrendered to non-politicians....

Recalling Sendak's 'dark and clear-eyed view'

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 16:52
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maurice Sendak's closest friends gathered in his hospital room - playwright Tony Kushner, authors Brian Selznick and Gregory Maguire. Kushner brought jellybeans, while Maguire placed a picture of Lewis Carroll on the table beside Sendak's bed....
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