North Carolina bans gay marriage
North Carolinians voted to change the state constitution Tuesday to say that the only valid "domestic legal partnership" in the state is marriage between a man and a woman, according to the AP's projection. The amendment passed 61 to 39 percent with most counties reporting, making North Carolina the 29th state with a gay marriage [...]Read More ...
36-year Indiana Senate veteran loses his seat
Dick Lugar, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, was defeated Tuesday as Indiana Republicans chose state Treasurer Richard Mourdock over Lugar as the party's nominee. With 76 percent of precincts reporting, Mourdock received 60 percent to 40 percent for Lugar in the Hoosier [...]Read More ...
Double agent infiltrates al-Qaida
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Milwaukee mayor to face Walker in recall
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett won the Democratic primary in Wisconsin on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. This means Barrett will go head-to-head with embattled Republican Gov. Scott Walker in the rare recall election on June 5. Barrett, who also ran against Walker in 2010, was expected...Read More ...
Wife, mother of kidnap-slaying suspect arrested
The wife and mother of a Mississippi man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter before fleeing with her two younger girls were charged Tuesday in connection with the abduction, authorities said.Read More ...
White House visiting policy ruffles conservatives
Spoiler: "No." Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on Tuesday evening tweeted a link to a sensational story by the conservative Washington Free Beacon accusing the Obama White House of hypocrisy because…well, here's how the Beacon put it: "The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child—still residing in utero—must be counted as a full human [...]Read More ...
Josh Hamilton hits four home runs in one game
On Tuesday night in Baltimore, the Texas Rangers star captivated all of baseball with his home run prowess again — this time during a regular-season game — swatting four homers off Orioles pitchers in a 10-3 win at Camden Yards.Read More ...
Europe's bad mood: Does Obama need to worry?
The elections that drove Nicolas Sarkozy out of power in France and left Greece scrambling to build a coalition government pose a financial 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.Read More ...
Dry N.J. resort votes to stay that way, rejects BYOB
The same disdain for alcohol that drove Christian clergymen to establish this Jersey shore town that calls itself America's Greatest Family Resort led voters to overwhelmingly reject a proposal Tuesday that would have let restaurant patrons bring their own wine or beer to enjoy with dinner.Read More ...
Florida white supremacists allegedly planned 'race war'
Ten alleged members of a white supremacist group training near Orlando and Disney World for a "race war" have been rounded up in a series of arrests in central Florida, authorities said on Tuesday. The arrests were based on evidence from a confidential informant who infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization known as the American Front 17 months ago, according to an arrest affidavit. "The American Front (AF) is a military-styled, anti-Semitic, white supremacist, skinhead organization and is known as a domestic terrorist organization," the affidavit said. ...Read More ...
Biden: Time running out for diplomacy with Iran
Vice President Joe Biden warned Tuesday that the window of opportunity for peacefully resolving the standoff over Iran's nuclear program was closing "in the near term." Speaking in Atlanta to the Rabbinical Assembly's annual convention, Biden pointedly said Washington could not stop potential military action by Israel and predicted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be [...]Read More ...
China ignores questions on expelled reporter
The Chinese Foreign Ministry's usually staid news briefing showed some spark, with 14 out of 18 questions concerning the first expulsion of a foreign journalist from the country in more than a dozen years.
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Greek leftist holds coalition talks, effort seen as doomed
Radical leftist Alexis Tsipras meets the leaders of Greece's mainstream parties on Wednesday to try to form a coalition government, an effort seen as doomed after he demanded they first agree to tear up the country's EU/IMF bailout deal. An inconclusive election on Sunday has left Athens in political disarray, with no clear path to form a government, a new election likely within weeks and speculation escalating that Greece could be pushed out of Europe's single currency bloc. ...Read More ...
Coroner: Valium, alcohol killed painter Thomas Kinkade
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Obama gives Congress 'to-do list' on virtual Post-It note
President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Tuesday to act on a modest five-item "to-do list" to fight unemployment, showcasing the tasks on a virtual Post-It note he mockingly said would not "overload" lawmakers. "I know this is an election year," Obama said in a speech at the SUNY-Albany Nano-Tech Complex, a science research facility. "But [...]Read More ...
Edwards trial witness: Obama camp was warned about affair
After learning of the alleged sex tape featuring John Edwards and his mistress, Rielle Hunter, during the 2008 presidential campaign, a former Edwards adviser said he tried to warn the Obama campaign not to consider Edwards for a spot in the administration. Tim Toben, a North Carolina businessman, testified at Edwards' federal conspiracy trial on [...]Read More ...
California may ban gay teen 'conversion' therapy
A first-of-its-kind ban on a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay people straight is speeding through the California statehouse.Read More ...
Gun parts found in stuffed animals at R.I. airport
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Utah sex offender to remain free despite new law
A convicted sex offender who faces nearly two dozen charges in Utah but has remained free because of a legal loophole likely will never face trial or be confined to an institution, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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Y! Big Story: The high price of 'The Scream' and other art sales
Can't afford $119,922,500 for a pastel? A poster will run you about $19.99. The 12 minutes of art-auction hysteria has led to yet another re-evaluation of, if not outrage about, the price we put on art and who gets to "own" it. The bidder(s) for the pastel of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" remains anonymous, but hammer prices like that in an economy like this has raised questions on who's driving up these high-profile sales lately.
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12 sets of twins graduating from just one high-school class
12 pairs of high-school seniors are about to graduate from one Georgia school. The 24 seniors at Brookwood High in Gwinnett County are a mix of identical and fraternal twins. Fox 5 in Atlanta reports that as unusual as the circumstances are, most of the twins themselves find their situation to be perfectly normal. "It's [...]
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