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Obama on gay marriage: 'Right thing to do'

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By JULIE PACE, AP - 1 minute ago NEW YORK (AP) - President Barack Obama on Monday defended his view that gay couples should have the right to marry, saying that the country has never gone wrong when it "expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody ...
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Paul ends campaign but not the fight for delegates

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By Richard S. Dunham and Samantha Wagner (FILES) Republican presidential hopeful and Texas Congressman Ron Paul addresses his supporters, in this January 20, 2012 file photo in Warrenville, South Carolina.
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Brown's proposal: a 4-day week for state workers

San Francisco Chronicle -
(05-14) 18:06 PDT Sacramento -- Gov. Jerry Brown proposed significant cuts to state courts and state worker pay - including reducing state employees' work week to four days - to help close a $15.7 billion gap between revenues and expenses for ...
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Yahoo's interim CEO has tough job ahead of him

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By Jon Swartz and Scott Martin, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO - The newest chief Yahoo, interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, has carved a career out of making deals.
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23 Syrian Soldiers Reported Killed by Rebels

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BEIRUT, Lebanon - Nearly two dozen Syrian government soldiers were killed in intense clashes with the opposition over control of the central, rebel-held city of Rastan, opposition groups said Monday, deepening questions about the viability of a ...
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Facebook IPO: Oversubscribed, social network set to close books, report says

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After months of preparation, Facebook is facing what's widely expected to be the week of its initial public offering. The company hasn't announced anything resembling official timing yet, but odds seem high, given that it wrapped up its road show in ...
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Greece's political deadlock drags down global markets

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ATHENS - A political coalition that came in second in recent elections refused Monday to attend talks about forming a government with parties that insist on going ahead with spending cuts to qualify for a bailout of the debt-ridden country.
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Palestinian Prisoners Agree to End Hunger Strike

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Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have agreed to end a weeks-long hunger strike in exchange for promises of better conditions, averting fears of widespread unrest if any of the inmates had died.
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Merkel Crisis Summit Marks Hollande's First Day in Office

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By Gregory Viscusi and Mark Deen on May 14, 2012 Francois Hollande will spend his first hours as French president huddled in meetings today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, underscoring rising concern that Greece is headed out of the euro.
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IAEA Presses Iran Ahead of P5+1 Talks

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Satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe and the Institute for Science and International Security shows the military complex at Parchin, Iran, 30 kilometers southeast of Tehran, file photo 2004.
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Florida A&M president keeps band on suspension

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By Ed Payne and Michael Pearson, CNN (CNN) -- The Florida A&M University marching band will remain on suspension through the 2012-2013 academic year while the school works to set new rules following the fatal hazing of a band member, ...
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Officials search LA mountains for missing FBI agent

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An urgent search for an FBI agent who went missing last week stretched into its fourth day Monday, with authorities reporting little progress.
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Shares slide as Greece risks dominate

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By Chikako Mogi | TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares fell on Tuesday as investors liquidated riskier assets and sought refuge from the political turmoil fuelling fears of Greece's exit from the euro and threatening to ruin any progress made so far to solve the ...
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JPMorgan executive steps down, stock falls

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By Adam Shell, USA TODAY NEW YORK - With the beleaguered bank's shareholder meeting looming Tuesday, the fallout from JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion trading blunder intensified Monday with the top executive who ran the unit responsible for the loss ...
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S&P 500 down for 4th day of five, Groupon up late

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By Chuck Mikolajczak | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks fell on Monday as investors dealt with the one-two punch of worsening political upheaval in the euro zone and the possibility that China's economy may be softening more than previously thought.
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Increase in Customer Base Helps Groupon Narrow Loss

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Signaling a change of fortune, the online deals company Groupon posted a smaller net loss and higher revenue in the first quarter, helped by increased demand from a growing customer base.
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In Graduation Speech to Women, Obama Leaps Into Gender Gap

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President Obama, shifting the focus from his recent endorsement of same-sex marriage to what he portrays as a lifelong belief in the essential role of women, told female graduates of Barnard College in New York City on Monday that they should go out ...
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Romney Gets Facts Wrong on Gay Adoption

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By Beth Reinhard But Romney also got his facts wrong when he said, "I simply acknowledge the fact that gay adoption is legal in all states but one.
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New MacBooks to debut at WWDC?

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by Josh Lowensohn | 15 May 2012 8:53am SGT Apple's next generation of MacBook Pros will be unveiled at next month's Worldwide Developers Conference, according to a new report.
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The measure of Windows Phone's failure is...

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By Joe Wilcox There are many measures, but one piqued my attention last week. According to Nielsen, Windows Mobile US smartphone market share, based on install base not unit shipments, is considerably higher than its successor -- 4.1 percent versus 1.7 ...
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Google, Mozilla Complaints About Microsoft Browser Eyed by Senate Panel

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The staff of a US Senate Subcommittee on antitrust issues are looking into the Mozilla Foundation's allegations that Microsoft has made it difficult for competing browsers to run on Windows-powered mobile phones.
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'Survivor: One World': How The Women Won

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'The guys - they had no unity,' fourth-place finisher Christina Cha tells MTV News of scoring show's first ever all-girl finale.
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Spears, Lovato joining 'The X Factor' on Fox for new season

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NEW YORK - Britney Spears and Demi Lovato are joining the judging panel on “The X Factor” this fall, part of Fox's effort to boost its underperforming music competition shows.
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Mindy Kaling's 'The Mindy Project' Trailer - Watch Now!

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Check out the brand new trailer for Mindy Kaling's upcoming Fox comedy The Mindy Project! “It is finally here! Guys, check out the trailer for my new show!
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MLB fires arbitrator from Braun case

San Francisco Chronicle -
(05-14) 16:32 PDT New York (AP) -- Major League Baseball management has fired Shyam Das, the arbitrator who overturned Ryan Braun's drug suspension in February.
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Adversity will test the Miami Heat with Chris Bosh's absense

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The Pacer's David West is guarded by Joel Anthony and Shane Battier in the fourth quarter. The Miami Heat vs. the Indiana Pacers for Round 2 Game 1 of the NBA Playoffs at the AmericanAirlines Arena on Sunday, May 13, 2012.
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Harper hits no-doubter for first MLB homer

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By Bill Ladson / MLB.com | 05/14/12 8:20 PM ET WASHINGTON -- Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper, the person pegged as the LeBron James of baseball, hit his first Major League home run on Monday night against the Padres.
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Private Sector Edges Deeper in Space

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It sounds like a routine event for NASA: At 4:55 am on Saturday, a rocket is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., and carry cargo - but no people - to the International Space Station.
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Genetically-engineered viruses may power devices of the future

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By Rick Burgess Riding along a fine line between modern day technology and creepy science fiction, Department of Energy researchers unveiled a device which generates energy by harnessing the electro-mechanical properties of genetically-engineered ...
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Study: Many mammals won't be able to outrun climate change

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By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Hundreds of species of mammals in the Western Hemisphere may not be able to migrate with the projected speed of climate change, according to a new study released Monday.
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Flesh-eating bacteria cases occur about 750 times a year, but Georgia woman's ...

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ATLANTA - Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago.
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Study Indicates Upward of 8.4 million Americans are Prone to Sleepwalking

Daily Disruption -
What goes bump in the night? In many US households: people. That's according to new Stanford University School of Medicine research, which found that about 3.6 percent of US adults - or upward of 8.4 million - are prone to sleepwalking.
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Is world outpacing US on health care?

Washington Post -
Even as Americans debate whether President Obama's health-care law and its promise of guaranteed health coverage should be scrapped, many far less affluent nations are moving in the opposite direction - to provide medical insurance to all citizens.

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