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Lawsuit filed over Pennsylvania's same-sex marriage ban
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Florida may have accidentally banned the Internet
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Criminal probe launched in Quebec oil train derailment
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FX's "The Bridge" explores the borderland
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Militarized police overreach: "Oh, God, I thought they were going to shoot me next”
A gay country music star plays it (relatively) safe
Samuel Beckett's manuscript sells for $1.4 million
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Senate to vote on restoring lower student loan rate
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Nuclear watchdog: Ocean contamination likely at Fukushima
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Sarah Palin is mulling a bid for Senate
Gun-rights activist reportedly arrested for firearm, drug possession
McDonnell and his wife reportedly received additional $120,000 from donor
Comedy Central to roast James Franco
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The sexual assault crisis at America's colleges
CNN asks if Korea's hierarchical culture caused crash
Federal judge: Apple conspired to raise e-book prices
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Blackwater founder is writing a memoir
Bill to prevent LGBT workplace discrimination advances in the Senate
North Carolina Republicans sneak antiabortion provisions into motorcycle safety bill
Senate fails to keep student loan rates low
Execution of "mentally retarded" man moves ahead
Woman blasts Texas lawmakers over abortion ban, is forcibly removed from Capitol
London Review of Books marginally improves its female representation
Ill Doctrine: BET's apology insults our intelligence
Conspiracy theorists: Dzhokhar was framed!
Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions
Only 1 percent of "terrorists" caught by the FBI are real
Jason Schwartzman, Patton Oswalt, Billy Dee Williams do "Star Wars" karaoke
This summer's blockbusters are really about overpopulation
For 10 years, Elisabeth Hasselbeck was conservatism's Trojan horse
Comcast profits off of poverty
Texas GOPer wants to defund schools that ban imaginary guns
In the "mommy wars," black single moms are invisible
Starbucks Glock sale could have broken the law
Snowden denies giving info to China, Russia
Christian scouting group launches for boys who don't "openly flaunt sexuality"