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NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge in Manhattan joined a growing chorus of judges across the country Wednesday by striking down a key component of a federal law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Well, it's that time of year again. Time to stash a dead fish somewhere to stink up the school hallways. Time to drop tennis balls on the heads of people in the lobby. Time to cover your soon-to-be alma mater with Post-It notes....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A week after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney disclosed a fortune worth as much as $250 million, his campaign said Wednesday that he plans to put his holdings in a federal blind trust if he is elected president....

An election night that began with Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker winning his recall election grew progressively worse for public-sector unions as California voters approved steep pension-cutting measures in two major cities.

Voters in San Diego and San Jose overwhelmingly passed ballot initiatives Tuesday to reduce retirement benefits for city ...

ISTANBUL (AP) -- The United States and its allies in Europe, Turkey and the Arab world have agreed to work on a political transition plan for Syria, hoping to persuade President Bashar Assad's powerful ally Russia to join a broadened diplomatic effort to ease the embattled leader out of power, a senior U.S. official said....

Facing "payback time" at the ballot box

MONTREAL (AP) -- Police investigating the grisly killing of a Chinese student said Wednesday that mailed packages containing the man's body parts also included notes....

MONTREAL (AP) -- Police investigating the grisly killing of a Chinese student said Wednesday that mailed packages containing the man's body parts also included notes....

Is Vietnam's revolutionary leader still relevant today?

Syrian opposition activists blamed government forces and said at least half of the dead are women and children. Syrian state TV accused an "armed terrorist group."

In the Russian Arctic north lies buried a disused railway built by prisoners of Joseph Stalin's gulags and never used - but it could now be revived.

NY Times | Judge experiences rampant police state brutality first hand.

The number of suspected cases in the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Edinburgh rises by a further 10, taking the total to 61.

What does it take to run the US's oldest family firm?

The Bank of England once again leaves UK interest rates unchanged at 0.5% and announces no expansion to its quantitative easing programme.

Italian police arrest a man in connection to the bombing of a school in Brindisi last month, in which a 16-year-old girl was killed, local media says.

Twitter is giving users the bird. A cute, little, upwardly mobile bird.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the World War II Memorial as a backdrop, veterans Josephine and Murray Bussard shared a kiss from their wheelchairs as they commemorated the 68th anniversary of D-Day, and celebrated almost as many years of marriage....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the World War II Memorial as a backdrop, veterans Josephine and Murray Bussard shared a kiss from their wheelchairs as they commemorated the 68th anniversary of D-Day, and celebrated almost as many years of marriage....

WASHINGTON

Leaders of a traditional-marriage group turned in more than 200,000 signatures Wednesday to allow voters a say on the gay-marriage law passed by lawmakers earlier this year.

Preserve Marriage Washington needed 120,577 signatures to get their Referendum 74 on the November ballot. If their efforts are approved, as expected, ...