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    Obama lauds high court decision on gay marriage
    Nation, News
    Obama lauds high court decision on gay marriage
    JIM KUHNHENN and NANCY BENAC 
    Jun 26, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, who himself has acknowledged an evolution over gay rights, said Friday that the Supreme Court's ruling givin...
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    A look at gay marriage reaction from across US
    Nation, News
    A look at gay marriage reaction from across US
    The Associated Press 
    Jun 26, 2015
    Some snapshots of Americans reacting to Friday's Supreme Court ruling declaring that same-sex couples have a right to marry in all 50 states. ___ TEXA...
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    Supreme Court extends gay marriage nationwide
    Nation, News
    Supreme Court extends gay marriage nationwide
    MARK SHERMAN 
    Jun 26, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States, a historic culmination ...
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    Judge blocks Kansas’ ban on 2nd-trimester abortion procedure
    Nation, News
    Judge blocks Kansas’ ban on 2nd-trimester abortion procedure
    JOHN HANNA 
    Jun 25, 2015
    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge on Thursday blocked the state's first-in-the-nation ban on an abortion procedure that opponents describe as dismemb...
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    Report: Colombia generals go unpunished in civilian killings
    News, World
    Report: Colombia generals go unpunished in civilian killings
    JOSHUA GOODMAN 
    Jun 24, 2015
    BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Dozens of senior Colombian army officers implicated in the killing of 3,000 civilians falsely claimed to be rebels a decade ag...
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    As SC honors church victims, Alabama lowers its flags
    Nation, News
    As SC honors church victims, Alabama lowers its flags
    SEANNA ADCOX, JEFFREY COLLINS and JONATHAN DREW 
    Jun 24, 2015
    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Confederate battle flag was still flying high atop a 30-foot pole outside the South Carolina Statehouse on Wednesday as lawm...
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    Confederate, Jim Crow tributes go well beyond battle flag
    Nation, News
    Confederate, Jim Crow tributes go well beyond battle flag
    BILL BARROW 
    Jun 24, 2015
    ATLANTA (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for removing the Confederate battle flag that flies in front of her state's Capitol. But she has...
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    Anger, no surprise as US newly accused of spying in France
    News, World
    Anger, no surprise as US newly accused of spying in France
    LORI HINNANT and ANGELA CHARLTON 
    Jun 24, 2015
    PARIS (AP) — Embarrassed by leaked conversations of three successive French presidents and angered by new evidence of uninhibited American spying, Fra...
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    French court rules police illegally targeted minorities
    News, World
    French court rules police illegally targeted minorities
    ELAINE GANLEY 
    Jun 24, 2015
    PARIS (AP) — A French appeals court ruled Wednesday that police carried out unjustified identity checks on five minority men based on their racial pro...
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    German museum launches show on 150 years of gay history
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    German museum launches show on 150 years of gay history
    GEIR MOULSON 
    Jun 24, 2015
    BERLIN (AP) — Germany's main national history museum on Wednesday launched an exhibition tracing 150 years of gay history in the country, including th...
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    UN report on Gaza: Both sides may be guilty of war crimes
    News, World
    UN report on Gaza: Both sides may be guilty of war crimes
    ARON HELLER 
    Jun 22, 2015
    JERUSALEM (AP) — A much-awaited United Nations report into the 2014 Gaza war released Monday found that both Israel and Palestinian militant groups ma...
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    High court strikes down raisin program as unconstitutional
    Nation, News
    High court strikes down raisin program as unconstitutional
    SAM HANANEL 
    Jun 22, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a 66-year-old program that lets the government take raisins away from farmers to help reduce sup...
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    Attacked in places most sacred, congregations struggle on
    Nation, News
    Attacked in places most sacred, congregations struggle on
    ADAM GELLER 
    Jun 22, 2015
    The blast, powered by at least 40 sticks of dynamite, ripped into the stillness before dawn. A few more hours and Sunday school classrooms at The Temp...
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    Gay mentor, belief in dignity at roots of Kennedy’s views
    Nation, News
    Gay mentor, belief in dignity at roots of Kennedy’s views
    MARK SHERMAN 
    Jun 22, 2015
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Irish Catholic boy who came of age in Sacramento after World War II is an unlikely candidate to be the author of the Sup...
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    Some blacks feel fatigued after barrage of racial incidents
    Nation, News
    Some blacks feel fatigued after barrage of racial incidents
    JESSE J. HOLLAND 
    Jun 20, 2015
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The weariness, the rage, the depressing conviction that black life is stuck in a murderous loop fueled by racism — these emotions re...
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    World shocked at enduring racism, gun violence in US
    News, World
    World shocked at enduring racism, gun violence in US
    CHRISTOPHER BODEEN 
    Jun 20, 2015
    BEIJING (AP) — Often the target of U.S. human rights accusations, China wasted little time returning such charges following the shooting at a historic...
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    Friend says church shooting suspect ranted about race
    Nation, News
    Friend says church shooting suspect ranted about race
    MITCH WEISS, MEG KINNARD and JACOB JORDAN 
    Jun 20, 2015
    LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — In recent weeks, Dylann Storm Roof reconnected with a childhood buddy he hadn't seen in five years and started railing about th...
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    Keith: Stricter gun laws wouldn’t really make a difference
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Keith: Stricter gun laws wouldn’t really make a difference
    JOHN CARUCCI 
    Jun 19, 2015
    NEW YORK (AP) — Toby Keith says he's not sure how to prevent tragedies like Wednesday's church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, but doesn't thi...
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    Roof to appear on 9 murder counts; Charleston seeks unity
    Nation, News
    Roof to appear on 9 murder counts; Charleston seeks unity
    JEFFREY COLLINS 
    Jun 19, 2015
    CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — As Dylann Storm Roof awaited his first hearing on nine charges of murder, the people of Charleston sought Friday to repudiate ...
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    Court hears appeal about FBI gang report on Juggalos
    Entertainment, Lifestyles
    Court hears appeal about FBI gang report on Juggalos
    Jun 18, 2015
    DETROIT (AP) — Insane Clown Posse's latest gig? A federal court. It's not a performance by the Detroit rap-metal duo, but arguments by lawyers who say...
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    Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
    Nation & World, PA State News
    Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
    August 3, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK  — A nuclear winter is a theoretical concept, but if the climate scenario expected to follow a large-scale nuclear war, in which smoke...
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    Emergency alerts sounded during deadly West Virginia flooding
    Nation & World, PA State News
    Emergency alerts sounded during deadly West Virginia flooding
    Here's how they work — and when they're used
    By KING JEMISON  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    August 3, 2025
    (TNS) — Kaysi Ricker's phone buzzed with a flash flood warning. She scrambled down to the creek behind her house to clean up the toys her niece and ne...
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    Man hopes statement of affection isn’t taken the wrong way
    Lifestyles
    Man hopes statement of affection isn’t taken the wrong way
    August 3, 2025
    DEAR ABBY: I recently reconnected with a woman I dated briefly in the 1980s and haven't seen since. She's around my age. We both were married one year...
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    Wine chemistry can be judged from tiny batches
    PA State News
    Wine chemistry can be judged from tiny batches
    August 2, 2025
    UNIVERSITY PARK — Making wine is a complex endeavor — it depends on grape composition, microbes like yeast, and environmental conditions such as tempe...
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    ‘Do it right, do it safe’ outweighs ‘don’t do it’ at public meeting on TMI restart
    Business, Nation & World, PA State News
    ‘Do it right, do it safe’ outweighs ‘don’t do it’ at public meeting on TMI restart
    By CHARLES THOMPSON pennlive.com 
    August 2, 2025
    (TNS) — If there was any takeaway from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s first public meeting on the restart of the nuclear power station at Three M...
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    Mast crops shape wildlife patterns
    Lifestyles, Local News, Local Sports, ...
    Mast crops shape wildlife patterns
    By STEVE SHERK Jr.  Special to The Era  
    August 2, 2025
    Mast crops are spotty this year, except for acorns. Soft mast, like apples and wild cherries, seems to be minimal to none in most areas. Soft mast blo...
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