By Rob Quinn
At midnight, Minnesota and Rhode Island became the 12th and 13th states to legalize gay marriage and there were dozens of couples waiting at Minneapolis City Hall and courthouses across the state, the AP reports. Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak e pronounced the first couple married before a cheering crowd of… …read more
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By Michael Periatt No one in the Red Sox clubhouse could recall a play quite like the one left fielder Jonny Gomes made in Wednesday night’s 5-4, 15-inning win over the Mariners. …read more
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Bahrain’s king has issued new decrees, giving authorities more powers to strip citizenship and block suspected funding channels in attempts to quell escalating anti-government violence in the Gulf nation. …read more
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Royal Dutch Shell PLC reported a 57 percent fall in second quarter earnings due to impairment charges, lower production and higher costs. …read more
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When Marine Maj. Chris Bourbeau walked alone into an Afghan base last spring, he left behind his helmet, bulletproof jacket and rifle. …read more
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German luxury car maker BMW AG says it overcame tough auto markets in Europe and posted a 9 percent increase in net profit in the second quarter. …read more
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President Barack Obama’s national security has team acknowledged for the first time that it has the ability to
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Bangladeshi security forces have killed at least 150 protesters since February, using excessive force during demonstrations against war crime trials for top Islamists, a rights group said Thursday. …read more
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Hours after a man with long-running grievances against officialdom set off a homemade explosive at Beijing’s airport, a singer-songwriter turned to the Internet to release her own sarcastic wish list of to-be-bombed targets. …read more
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New Zealand knows of Al-Qaeda-trained activists within the country who need to be monitored, Prime Minister John Key said Thursday amid debate on the need for stronger spy laws. …read more
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Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso has retracted a comment he made this week suggesting Japan should follow the Nazi example of how to change the country’s constitution. …read more
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Defending Super 15 champions Waikato Chiefs were Thursday sweating on the fitness of star winger Lelia Masaga in the countdown to Saturday’s final against the ACT Brumbies. …read more
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In case you’d forgotten about Ukraine’s real life Barbie, she’s reemerged in the media. Just recently, a pretty Ukrainian lady that turned herself into a life-size doll shared her ideas about life and spirituality in a video entitled “Space Barbie”, produced by VICE. …read more
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A video game backed by China’s military that lets players fight enemy forces in islands disputed between Beijing and Tokyo was set for release Thursday. …read more
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The UN’s cultural body has voiced alarm at the building of a giant crematorium within a fabled temple complex in Nepal, worried it will become an eyesore at one of the world’s holiest Hindu sites. …read more
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Energy giant Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday said its net profits plunged by 57 percent in the second quarter compared with the equivalent period a year earlier. …read more
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A nurse who set a Sydney nursing home on fire, killing 11 residents and wounding several others, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison, with the judge slamming the man’s actions as heinous and reprehensible. …read more
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By Rob Quinn
Ariel Castro’s sentencing is today and the hearing is expected to feature horrific details of the abuse the three women he kidnapped suffered over a decade, as well as testimony from at least one victim as well as Castro himself, CNN reports. Prosecutors have revealed that the women kept diaries… …read more
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By Robert Book
For several months, there have been reports of companies, often in the restaurant industry, reducing worker hours to avoid the Obamacare employer mandate penalties. The employer mandate applies only to “full-time” workers, and full-time is defined as working 30 or more hours per week; this potentially gives many employers the opportunity to avoid or reduce the penalty by converting as many workers as possible from full-time to part-time by limiting their work schedule to less than 30 hours a week. …read more
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A man who kidnapped and raped three women in Cleveland over a decade in his house is heading back to court where he’ll face a sentence up to life in prison plus 1,000 years. …read more
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