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August 12, 2009

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• Appeals Court rules against marriage act

  A federal appeals court Thursday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married gay couples, a groundbreaking ruling all but certain to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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  May 31, 2012 4:16 pm
• States may get more power over food stamp fraud
  

  Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards.

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• Man implicates self in 33-year-old NYC case
  

  A man has implicated himself in the death of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 33 years ago on his way to school helped launch a missing children's movement that put kids' faces on milk cartons, police said Thursday.

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• Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing dies

  Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday.

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  May 20, 2012 11:29 am
• Boomers, get tested for Hep C

  The CDC is urging anyone in that generation to get one-time blood test

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  May 19, 2012 7:14 am
• Wednesday, May 9, 2012
• Obama now says he supports gay marriage
  

  President Barack Obama says he now supports same-sex marriage.

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• Postal Service: Rural offices will stay open
  

  The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours.

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• Tuesday, May 8, 2012
• Children's author Maurice Sendak dies
  

  Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," died early Tuesday. He was 83 and lived in Ridgefield, Conn.

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• Monday, May 7, 2012
• CIA thwarts plan to bomb U.S.-bound plane

  The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned.

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• Wednesday, May 2, 2012
• Chinese activist scared, wants to leave country
  

  A blind activist said Wednesday that U.S. officials told him that Chinese authorities would have beaten his wife to death had he not left the American Embassy, where he sought sanctuary after fleeing persecution by local officials in his rural town.

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• Tuesday, May 1, 2012
• Obama drops in on Afghanistan to sign agreement
  

  President Barack Obama slipped into Afghanistan Tuesday night on an unannounced visit on the anniversary of the killing of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Obama is signing an agreement cementing a U.S. commitment to the nation after the long and unpopular war comes to an end.

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• Monday, April 30, 2012
• 'Three Cups of Tea' fabrication lawsuit thrown out
  

  A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit against author Greg Mortenson.

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• Friday, April 20, 2012
• Military: 11 Secret Service agents being investigated

  The U.S. military says 11 service members are being investigated for alleged misconduct in Colombia. That's up from the 10 personnel the military last believed to be involved.

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• Wednesday, April 11, 2012
• Nashville confident in goal
  

  Pekka Rinne fills up so much of the net at 6-foot-5, and the Nashville goaltender led the NHL with 43 wins while facing more shots than anyone else. But Jimmy Howard was on quite the run for Detroit himself.

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• Sunday, April 8, 2012
• '60 Minutes' newsman Mike Wallace dies

  Mike Wallace, whose pitiless, prosecutorial style transformed television journalism and made “60 Minutes” compulsively watchable, died Saturday night.

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• Thursday, April 5, 2012
• Report: 'Three Cups' author mismanaged group
  

  "Three Cups of Tea" author Greg Mortenson mismanaged the nonprofit organization he co-founded to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan and spent millions of dollars of charity money, according to an investigative report.

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• Saturday, March 31, 2012
• Tickets in Md., Kan., Ill. win jackpot

  Lottery ticket-holders in Kansas, Illinois and Maryland each selected the winning numbers and will split a $640 million jackpot that was believed to be the world's largest such prize, a lottery official said Saturday.

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• Thursday, March 29, 2012
• CDC: 1 child in 88 has autism

  Autism cases are on the rise again, to about 1 in 88 children. Federal health officials attribute the rise to wider screening and better diagnosis.

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• Tuesday, January 24, 2012
• Scorsese's 'Hugo' leads Oscar nominations
  

  Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure "Hugo" leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director honor for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

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• Saturday, January 21, 2012
• Gingrich wins SC primary

  Newt Gingrich stormed to an upset win in the South Carolina primary Saturday night.

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• Teen finished (interrupted) circumnavigation

  Laura Dekker set a steady foot aboard a dock in St. Maarten on Saturday, ending a yearlong voyage aboard a sailboat named "Guppy" that apparently made her the youngest person ever to sail alone around the globe, though her trip was interrupted at several points.

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• 12th body found on cruise ship
  

  Italian Coast Guard divers have found a woman’s body in a corridor of a submerged section of the capsized Costa Concordia, raising to at least 12 the number of dead in the cruise liner accident.

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• Get the latest on the SC primary
  

  For the latest news, polls and vote tallies from the South Carolina primary, visit our Nation & World page »

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• Friday, January 20, 2012
• Legendary blues singer Etta James dies
  

  Etta James' performance of the enduring classic "At Last" was the embodiment of refined soul. In real life, little about James was as genteel as that song. The singer has died at age 73.

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• Thursday, January 19, 2012
• Santorum edges Romney in Iowa count
  

  In a surprise flip, Rick Santorum edged front-runner Mitt Romney by 34 votes in the final tally of the Iowa caucuses, Republican officials said Thursday.

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