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Federal judge strikes down Texas gay marriage ban

AUSTIN, Texas – A federal judge declared a same-sex marriage ban in deeply conservative Texas unconstitutional Wednesday but will allow the nation’s second-most populous state to enforce the...

Dempsey worries about effects of withdrawal talk

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Depicting a grim future for Afghanistan without U.S. help, the top U.S. military officer said Wednesday that Afghanistan’s refusal to sign a security agreemen...

California ‘lifers’ leaving prison at record pace

SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly 1,400 lifers in California’s prisons have been released over the past three years in a sharp turnaround in a state where murderers and others sentenced to life with th...

GOP tax overhaul plan meeting early resistance

WASHINGTON – House Republicans haven’t even officially unveiled their massive plan to overhaul the tax code and the top Republican in the Senate is already pronouncing it dead. Se...

Crimea protesters seek Russian help

SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine – Dozens of pro-Russian protesters rallied Tuesday in this Crimean Peninsula city, bitterly denouncing politicians in Kiev who are trying to form a new government, with s...

Wintertime blues? You bet

DETROIT – A new winter misery index confirms what many Americans in the Midwest and East know in their all-too-chilled bones: This has been one of the harshest winters of our lifetimes. ...

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Housing chief becomes Egypt prime minister CAIRO – Egypt’s interim president chose the outgoing housing minister, a construction magnate from the era of ousted autocrat Hosni Muba...

Obama tells Pentagon to plan for Afghan pullout

Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has ordered the Pentagon to plan for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year should the Afghan gov...

Combat anyone? Few women lining up

FORT EUSTIS, Va. – Only a small fraction of Army women say they’d like to move into one of the newly opening combat jobs, but those few who do say they want a job that takes them right into ...

Tribe’s lawyer: Eviction related to missing funds

A woman accused of killing four people, including three of her relatives, at a tiny American Indian tribe’s Northern California headquarters had been evicted from tribal housing because she ...

GOP seizes on state woes to highlight health care

WASHINGTON – House Republicans intent on highlighting the woes of President Barack Obama’s health care law need to look no further than their own back yards, some of which are traditionally ...

Nation/World Briefs

Dingell won’t run again for Congress SOUTHGATE, Mich. – Rep. John Dingell, who played a key role in some of the biggest liberal legislative victories of the past 60 years, said M...
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