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Judge strikes down Florida ban on adoption by gay parentsByMIAMI - A Miami child welfare judge Tuesday declared Florida's 31-year-old ban on adoption by gay people unconstitutional, rejecting the state's claim that the law promotes public morality and the best interests of foster children who may be harmed by same-sex parents. |
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Bin Laden's driver transferred from Guantanamo to Yemen to serve out sentenceByMIAMI - Guantanamo guards sent Osama bin Laden's driver to Yemen on Tuesday to serve out the last month of his war crimes sentence in his homeland and then likely return to the career that made him infamous: driving. Salim Hamdan's flight left the remote U. |
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Washington State Supreme Court Justice to Mukasey: 'Tyrant!'BySEATTLE - Richard Sanders, a justice on the Washington State Supreme Court, has never been one to shy from controversy or blunt language. And last week, as he sat at a Federalist Society dinner and listened to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Sanders reached his tipping point. |
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Durbin weighing whether to ask Bush to commute ex-Gov. Ryan's sentenceByCHICAGO - Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Tuesday he's considering asking President George W. Bush to commute the prison sentence of George Ryan, contending the former Illinois Republican governor convicted on federal corruption charges "has paid a price for his wrongdoing. |
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Temporary workers at N.C. mental hospital testify they were intimidated into keeping quiet about patient beatingByGOLDSBORO, N.C. - Two temporary workers testified Tuesday that Cherry Hospital employees tried to cover up an August beating by intimidating them to keep quiet and ignoring the battered patient's complaints. The revelations in a Wayne County, N.C., courtroom came a week after the release of a security camera video from the state mental hospital in Goldsboro, N. |
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House is 1st in nation to meet water-saving standardsByCHAPEL HILL, N.C. - A new house in North Carolina that uses innovative water-saving appliances and construction design was recognized Tuesday by federal environmental leaders as the nation's first to meet standards of a new program promoting water efficiency. |
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Rate of new cancer cases, deaths from cancer falls among U.S. men, womenByCHICAGO - The United States has passed an important milestone in the fight against cancer, researchers reported Tuesday: For the first time, the recorded rate of new cancer cases has fallen for both men and women. At the same time, a 15-year decline in cancer death rates has accelerated, meaning people in whom the disease has been diagnosed are living longer. |
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New orthopedic device spares some from amputationByCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Things were looking bad for Stephen Ogonowski. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria had devoured his right ankle down to the bone, leaving an inches-wide hole full of raw and ravaged tissue. Amputation seemed certain, just as it was six months earlier when his left foot became infected and his leg had to be removed below the knee. |
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South Carolina commission reconsiders nuclear powerByCOLUMBIA, S.C. - Beginning Monday, state regulators will hold hearings that promise to be as combustible as the topic. That's when the Public Service Commission will listen to arguments on whether expanding nuclear power is the best way to meet South Carolina's energy needs. |
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Parishioners support priest who encourages confession for Obama supportersByMODESTO, Calif. - Several people attending mass Saturday evening at St. Joseph's Catholic Church said they support a Modesto priest who is urging parishioners to go to confession if they voted for Barack Obama. The Rev. Joseph Illo took issue with Obama's pro-choice position in a Nov. |
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Surprise runoff for Georgia Senate race has nation's attentionByATLANTA - Jim Martin is feeling the spirit. Usually the Democratic Senate candidate is so unassuming that he sometimes seems out of place at his own campaign events. But here at historically black Morris Brown College, surrounded by former Barack Obama campaign staffers and such African-American luminaries as Reps. |
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Odds are against Franken overtaking Coleman in MinnesotaByMINNEAPOLIS - While a tiny margin separates the candidates in the Minnesota U.S. Senate race, it is wide enough that Democrat Al Franken faces a daunting task in challenging votes to erase Sen. Norm Coleman's lead. The two sides have disputed thousands of the other's votes, but many of those challenges are regarded by experts as frivolous. |
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Obama to announce Clinton nominationByCHICAGO - President-elect Barack Obama will announce the nomination of former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state and the retaining of incumbent Defense Secretary Robert Gates at a press conference Monday, according to news reports Sunday. Citing unnamed sources, reports said Clinton's long-rumored pick was cleared after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, agreed to hand over the names of every contributor to his foundation and decline donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Global Initiative, his annual charitable conference. |
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Pakistan may pull troops from Afghan border to India'sByISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan has warned that it will divert troops fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida on its western border with Afghanistan to its eastern frontier with India, as tensions over the terror attacks in Mumbai push India and Pakistan towards military confrontation. |
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Video likely to be deciding factor on criminal charges in Wal-Mart trampling deathByNEW YORK - Trampling a Wal-Mart employee in a rush to buy a cheap flat-screen television is ugly behavior by any standard, but experts disagree about whether it is criminal. A spokesman for Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice in New York would not comment on whether her office is considering criminal charges against any of the shoppers who trampled Jdimytai Damour of the Jamaica neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens as the doors opened on a Black Friday sale at the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N. |
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Juror says most saw cyberbully case as a felonyByThe forewoman of the jury that convicted Lori Drew of misdemeanors for cyberbullying said Monday that a majority of the panel favored a felony conspiracy verdict that could have sent her to prison. Most jurors believed a felony conviction would send a message that Internet sites should be better regulated for fraud, the forewoman, Valentina Kunasz, said in a telephone interview. |
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Durbin encourages Bush to commute George Ryan's sentenceByCHICAGO - Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said Monday he is sending a letter to President George W. Bush urging him to commute the federal corruption sentence of former Republican Gov. George Ryan to time served in prison. In a letter to Bush, Durbin noted the 74-year-old Ryan "has lost his state pension benefits and a commutation will not restore them. |
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Former aide to Detroit ex-mayor Kilpatrick tearfully admits perjury, gets jail timeByDETROIT - Between sobs and sighs Monday morning, Christine Beatty accepted her share of guilt in the text message scandal that has gripped metro Detroit for almost 12 months and made felons of her and her former boss, ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. "I lied under oath," Beatty said shakily as part of her guilty pleas before Wayne County, Mich. |
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Police arrest suspect in Hudson slayingsByCHICAGO - Within days of the slayings, it seemed all of America knew William Balfour's face and that he was Chicago police's lone suspect in the shooting deaths of three of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson's family members. Still, police worked slowly and methodically, hoping to amass physical evidence against the estranged husband of Hudson's sister, taking time afforded them when Balfour was held for violating his parole. |
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Obama unveils national security teamByCHICAGO - President-elect Barack Obama named his national security team on Monday, vowing to bolster U.S. military strength with a renewed focus on diplomacy and alliances with other countries to combat terrorism and spread American values. "The national security challenges we face are just as great and just as urgent as our economic crisis," Obama said as he unveiled the group. |
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GM plans deep cuts as Congress reconsiders aidByWASHINGTON - General Motors Corp. will take a hacksaw to itself as part of a plea to Congress for part of $25 billion in aid, pledging billions of dollars in cuts across its North American business from reworking its debt to shedding up to four U.S. brands. |
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Video: Estranged relative arrested in Hudson killingsByThe estranged brother-in-law of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson has been arrested for the murders of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. |
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Big 3 present bailout plans, but will Congress bite?ByWASHINGTON - Their fates now in the hands of lawmakers, Detroit's Big Three automakers are girding for congressional hearings later this week to determine if they'll receive a $34 billion government bailout or face the prospect that at least one of them might go bankrupt. |
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India demands Pakistan hand over fugitives, testing pledge of cooperationByISLAMABAD, Pakistan - India demanded Tuesday that Islamabad hand over 20 fugitives it says have taken refuge in Pakistan, in an escalation of the confrontation between the two countries in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks. Those sought for terrorist acts include India's most wanted man, Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. |
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Study reports levels of toxic chemicals found in toysByMINNEAPOLIS - Holiday toy shopping stress is sure to ratchet up with a new report on toxic toys issued Wednesday. Nearly one-third of the popular toys tested contain medium to high levels of lead, cadmium, mercury or other potentially dangerous chemicals, according to the Michigan-based Ecology Center. |
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Investigation deepens in case of shackled teenBySACRAMENTO, Calif. - Officials continue to try to unravel a troubling case involving a teenage boy who, appearing emaciated, terrified and still partially shackled, on Monday stumbled into a Tracy, Calif., health club seeking asylum. Two adults have been arrested, charged with kidnapping and torture of the 17-year-old who ran away from a Sacramento foster home a year ago. |
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Republican congressman urges Bush not to pardon former Ill. Gov. George RyanByCHICAGO - Rejecting a clemency plea endorsed by two top Illinois Democrats, Republican Rep. Mark Kirk sent a letter to the White House on Tuesday, suggesting President George W. Bush should leave former Republican Gov. George Ryan in federal prison. "If we are to stop corruption at the highest levels and restore the public's trust, then this prisoner should serve as similar criminals who cannot hope that political favor can adjust their sentence," Kirk wrote, making a terse reference to Ryan as "Federal Inmate Number 16627-424. |
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Legislators introduce resolution opposing Proposition 8BySACRAMENTO, Calif. - In the latest sign the battle over same-sex marriage is far from over, the Legislature's gay and lesbian caucus and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg Tuesday introduced a resolution opposing Proposition 8. The non-binding resolution, introduced on the second day of the new legislative session, seeks to put the Legislature on record as declaring the gay marriage ban approved by voters last month was an improper revision of the state Constitution. |
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Researchers study 'self-embedding disorder' among teensByCHICAGO - Researchers evaluating a new technique for locating and removing objects accidentally embedded in the body say they may have uncovered a new form of self-mutilating behavior in which teenagers intentionally insert objects into their flesh. Personnel at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, report extracting 52 foreign objects that 10 teenage girls deliberately embedded in their arms, hands, feet, ankles and necks over the last three years, including needles, staples, wood, stone, glass, pencil lead and a crayon. |
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