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If past is indicator, ex-NSA contractor may escape long jail term
ReutersWASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans accused of divulging secrets to the media have escaped long prison sentences, a pattern that may reassure Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed the U.S. government's top-secret surveillance...Tags: Espionage Act of 1917, Criminals, Hong Kong, WikiLeaks, Crime, Law and Justice
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Planned Parenthood in Ind., Ky., to merge
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The statewide Planned Parenthood affiliates in Indiana and Kentucky will merge next month in a move aimed at expanding reproductive health care services offered by the nonprofit organization in both states. One goal...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Laws, Justice System, Family, Ohio River
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Gay marriage: Like it or not, polls go in only one direction
The 2008 vote on Proposition 8 is the only poll that matters on the subject of California and same-sex marriage, according to opponents of gay marriage. And that’s indeed how many people responded to the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll of...
Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Gays and Lesbians, Elections, Family, Politics
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Pennsylvania Democrats strike out in bid to expand Medicaid to working poor
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Democrats struck out Monday in their attempts to expand government-funded Medicaid health insurance to hundreds of thousands of working poor as part of the federal Affordable Care Act. First up was Sen. Vince Hughes, D-...Tags: Tom Corbett, Delaware County, Elections, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Budgets and Budgeting
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State laws varied on gun, abortion laws
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court says women in America can terminate a pregnancy and that every citizen has an individual right to own a firearm, but those rulings have done little to settle political arguments over abortion and guns....
Tags: Washington, DC, Gun Control, Gays and Lesbians, Robert J. Bentley, General Practitioners
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Unitarian teens tour civil rights battlefields
The luggage kept cascading out the back of the two Dodge Grand Caravans as 10 teenagers from Orlando's University Unitarian Universalist Society prepared Monday for a five-day tour of civil-rights memorials and museums. Once everything was secured,...
Tags: Voting Rights Act of 1965, Crime, Law and Justice, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Justice and Rights
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Court DNA Ruling Good Result, Bad Argument
The Hartford CourantLast week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, notwithstanding the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and searches without a warrant based on probable cause, states can require that a DNA sample be taken from those arrested for...Tags: Police Arrests, John G. Roberts, Jr., Antonin Scalia, Criminals, Stephen Breyer
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Michigan's first gay couple, married by Odawa tribe, invited to White House
Staff Writer -- bhubbard@petoskeynews.com Twitter: @BrandonHubbardBOYNE CITY — It was a sprint down the aisle for Boyne City's Gene Barfield and Tim LaCroix to become the first same-sex couple to wed when the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians amended their definition of marriage. Now, it will be a...Tags: Vehicles, LGBT Pride Month, Gays and Lesbians, Family, George W. Bush
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Gay marriage vote may come to Michigan in 2016
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — With more than half of voters supporting a repeal of Michigan's gay marriage ban, advocates say it's not a matter of if — but when — same-sex marriage is legal in the state. How soon? Gay rights activists plan a...
Tags: Justice System, Gays and Lesbians, Elections, Rick Snyder, Family
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U.S. justices agree to hear BG Group arbitration case
ReutersWASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear British company BG Group Plc's appeal over a $185.3 million arbitration award it won against Argentina that an appeals court later threw out. A U.S. district court ruled...Tags: BG Group Plc., Petroleum Industry, Arbitration, Argentina
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A LOOK BACK
June 9, 1978: Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints struck down a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men from the Mormon priesthood. June 10, 1963: President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at...Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Career and Workplace, John Connally, Environmental Politics
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