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Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By LA Times Staff - Feb. 07 (Breaking News) - A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.

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APNewsBreak: Komen official quits breast cancer charity over Planned Parenthood dispute

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Associated Press - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for public policy, told Komen officials that she supported the move to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. She said the discussion started before she arrived at the organization and was approved at the highest levels of the charity.

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Tucson's ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, judge rules

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Stephen Ceasar - Dec. 28 (News Report) - The ruling affirms a decision by the state schools superintendent and could end classes on Mexican American heritage.

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Lowe's pulls ads from TV show about U.S. Muslims

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press - Dec. 12 (News Report) - A decision by retail giant Lowe's Cos. to pull ads from a reality show about American Muslims after protests from an evangelical Christian group has sparked criticism and calls for a boycott against the chain of home-improvement stores.

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Obama orders U.S. diplomats to increase efforts to fight LGBT discrimination abroad

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson - Dec. 06 (News Report) - President Obama ordered U.S. diplomatic missions and federal agencies working abroad to strengthen efforts to fight international discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals, saying he is “deeply concerned by the violence” against them in many parts of the world.

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With great graphs comes great responsibility

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Sep. 13 (News Report) - Want to convince someone of something? Show them a graph. At least, that’s what political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler found in a series of experiments testing the best ways to correct factual misinformation. Key quote: “Graphical corrections are also found to successfully reduce incorrect beliefs among potentially resistant subjects and to perform better than an equivalent textual correction.” Full paper — with graphs — here (pdf). ...

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A decade later, returning to the scene of something unfathomable - latimes.com

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Steve Lopez - Sep. 11 (Special Report) - A columnist goes back to Lower Manhattan, where in 2001 he got a close-up look at the destruction of 9/11. He's reminded anew that we all have a stake in what happened that day and in the days that followed.

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'Clearing the Smoke': The Benefits, Limits of Medical Marijuana | PBS NewsHour | PBS Video

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Lessons from a gay student's killing

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Sandy Banks - Sep. 06 (News Report) - Neither family was satisfied when the jury deadlocked last week in the trial of an Oxnard teenager charged with murdering a gay middle-school classmate before stunned students in an English class. The parents of the dead boy, Larry King, stormed out of court when the mistrial was announced. The mother of defendant Brandon McInerney buried her face in her hands, slumped and sobbed.

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Discharged for Being Gay, Veterans Seek to Re-enlist

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Dao - Sep. 04 (Investigative Report) - .By some estimates, hundreds of gay men and lesbians among the more than 13,000 who were discharged under the policy have contacted recruiters or advocacy groups saying they want to re-enlist after the policy is repealed on Sept. 20.

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Jeb Bush: GOP candidates can't just attack Obama

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CBS News - By Stephanie Condon - Aug. 24 (News Report) - Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday evening that the Republican presidential candidates need to do more than attack President Obama if they want to win in 2012. "It's good to be critical of the president -- I think the president means well, but his policies have failed," Bush, a Republican and the former president's younger brother, said on Fox News. "But just to stop there and say, 'I'm going to win because I'm against what's going on' is not good enough. You have to win with purpose if you really want to make these big changes." That said, the former governor added that the current field of candidates should be up to the task. "I think it's a little early to be dissatisfied with the candidates," Bush said. "I think you'll find the candidates will start staking out positions that are responsible and forward leaning... As that happens, I think people will start migrating towards those candidates."

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Black leaders give 'The Help' a hand in marketing

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Nicole Sperling - Aug. 09 (News Report) - The chairwoman of the NAACP is among those spreading the word about the DreamWorks film, which focuses on relationships between white Southern women and their maids during the civil rights era. When Roslyn Brock, chairwoman of the NAACP, first heard about "The Help," a new film based on a novel about the volatile relationships between Southern white women and their black maids at the dawn of the civil rights movement, she was skeptical.

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How the Deficit Got This Big

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Teresa Tritch - Jul. 25 (News Analysis) - A look at how the economy went from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era to the current deficit. With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth asking how we got here — from healthy surpluses at the end of the Clinton era, and the promise of future surpluses, to nine straight years of deficits, including the $1.3 trillion shortfall in 2010. The answer is largely the Bush-era tax cuts, war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, and recessions. Despite what antigovernment conservatives say, non- defense discretionary spending on areas like foreign aid, education and food safety was not a driving factor in creating the deficits. In fact, such spending, accounting for only 15 percent of the budget, has been basically flat as a share of the economy for decades. Cutting it simply will not fill the deficit hole.

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Assembly passes bill to require contributions of gays in textbooks

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Patrick McGreevy - Jul. 06 (News Report) - Textbooks and history classes in California schools would be required to include the contributions of gays, lesbians and transgender Americans under a proposal given final legislative approval in the Assembly on Tuesday and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.

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Tensions rise on Capitol Hill as America runs out of money

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Dominic Rushe - Jul. 03 (News Report) - Not so long ago, the Onion , America's satirical "newspaper", ran a story about what had happened to the real Barack Obama. You know, the one who was all about change and "the audacity of hope". Apparently, he had been kidnapped by an imposter bent on destroying the president by turning him into a "wishy-washy loser". But with another election looming, and a new financial crisis brewing across the Atlantic, the old Obama seems to be back. By 2 August the US must raise the legal limit on its $14.3 trillion debt or face dire consequences, and Republicans and Democrats have been locked in battle on Capitol Hill. With the crunch deadline approaching, Obama hit out at Republicans last week, saying they favoured corporate jet owners over children and the elderly. Those high-flying fat cats got six mentions in a speech that set out the president's combative stance. "Before we ask ...

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Deaths in attack on Afghan clinic

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 25 (News Report) - At least 30 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a hospital in Afghanistan. Estimates of the casualties, which included patients and medical staff, varied widely as chaos enveloped the facility in Azra district of eastern Logar province, which is just south of capital Kabul. Dozens more were wounded in the attack. The bomber had been driving an "an SUV packed with explosives," officials said. Deen Mohammad Darwish, a spokesman for the Logar provincial government, said as many as 35 people were killed, although Afghanistan's Interior Ministry put the death toll at 20.

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Defense of Marriage Act called unconstitutional by bankruptcy judge

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Carol J. Williams - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Ruling is first to address the issue since the Obama administration announced it would no longer defend the law.

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Gay judge wasn't required to remove himself from same-sex marriage case, U.S. judge rules

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Maura Dolan - Jun. 15 (News Report) - A federal judge's refusal Tuesday to invalidate last year's ruling against Proposition 8 established for the first time that gay judges may decide gay rights cases without having to defend their impartiality.

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Judge appears skeptical about throwing out Prop. 8 ruling because of jurist's sexuality

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Maura Dolan - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Can a gay judge rule on same-sex marriage? Legal scholars and judges have debated for decades where to draw the line when it comes to potential personal conflicts of jurists, whether over race, gender or religion.

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Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Scott Bronstein, Jessi Joseph - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Kirk Andrew Murphy seemed to have everything to live for. Siblings: Gay brother killed himself decades after treatment to make him more masculine

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Cornel West's criticism of Obama sparks debate among African Americans

Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Krissah Thompson - May. 19 (News Report) - Scholar Cornel West's scathing critique of President Obama's liberal bona fides in a series of recent interviews has ignited a furious debate among African American bloggers and commentators.

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Rand Paul under fire for slavery analogy

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Cincinnati Enquirer - By James R. Carroll - May. 14 (News Report) - Sen. Rand Paul has come under fire from African-American leaders for saying that people who believe in the right to health care also believe in enslaving health care workers.

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Iran's Ahmadinejad affirms Khamenei decision, tensions remain

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Thomas Erdbrink - May. 09 (News Report) - Apparently bowing to unprecedented pressure from Iran's clerical establishment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcomed an intelligence minister he had ousted in April back into his cabinet meeting on Sunday.

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Donald Trump Fires Back After David Letterman Calls Him a Racist

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Reuters Staff - May. 02 (News Report) - In the latest round in the war between Donald Trump and a growing list of the heaviest hitters in show business, the real-estate mogul and "Celebrity Apprentice" host fired back at David Letterman over the late-night host's on-air suggestion that Trump is a racist.

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DOMA defense in turmoil

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:53:34 -0700

The Politico - By Josh Gerstein - Apr. 25 (News Report) - The House of Representatives' courtroom defense of the Defense of Marriage Act suffered a serious jolt Monday after the law firm the House hired to argue the law's constitutionality in up to a dozen pending court challenges withdrew - and the former solicitor general heading up the defense resigned from the firm to stay on the case.

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