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Associated Press Jane Roe (left) and her attorney Gloria Allred hold hands as they leave the Supreme Court building in 1989 in Washington after sitting in while the court listened to arguments in a Missouri abortion case. Months later, the high court ultimately upheld the Missouri law in the case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Service, making it illegal to use public officials or facilities for abortions.
Roe v. Wade: Deep divide is legacy
NEW YORK — By today’s politically polarized standards, the Supreme Court’s momentous Roe v. Wade ruling was a landslide. By a 7-2 vote on Jan. 22, 1973, the justices established a nationwide right ...
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21 invasive pythons killed so far in contest
FLORIDA EVERGLADES — The vast majority of roughly 1,000 people who signed up to hunt Burmese pythons on public lands from Jan. 12 through Feb. 10 are amateurs when it comes to pythons. Only about 3...
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Woman eulogizes husband, sons who died on hike
WATERLOO, Ill. — The widow of an Air Force veteran who died with two of their young sons during a Missouri hike told mourners Friday she’s comforted knowing her husband and boys were loved and “tog...
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Obama backers aim to outflank NRA
WASHINGTON — Supporters of President Barack Obama’s gun-control proposals are planning a methodical, state-by-state campaign to try to persuade key lawmakers that it’s in their political interest t...
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Food allergies may be disability under law
WASHINGTON — Allergic to gluten? What about peanuts? Federal disabilities law may be able to help. The Justice Department said in a recent settlement with a Massachusetts college that severe foo...
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Associated Press Then President-elect Barack Obama greets civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in 2009 on the Capitol steps prior to taking the oath of office in Washington. Monday is both Inauguration Day and the federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader. It is only the second time the two have fallen on the same day.
Inauguration marks intersection with King
ATLANTA — President Barack Obama plans to use a Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he takes his oath of office on the holiday honoring the slain icon, marking what some say i...
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State Department: 1 American dead
WASHINGTON — One American worker at a natural gas complex in Algeria has been found dead, U.S. officials said Friday as the Obama administration sought to secure the release of Americans still bein...
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Ex-New Orleans mayor charged with bribery
NEW ORLEANS — More than a decade ago, Ray Nagin was elected mayor of New Orleans on a vow to root out corruption in a city plagued by decades of it. On Friday, the former mayor was indicted on char...
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GOP leader: House to vote on debt limit
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders Friday offered President Barack Obama a three-month reprieve to a looming, market-rattling debt crisis, backing off demands that any immediate extension of the...
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Associated Press Luke Armstrong tries to touch the winner's trophy held by father Lance Armstrong in 2005 after Armstrong won his seventh straight Tour de France cycling race in Paris. During the second part of Oprah Winfrey's interview with Armstrong, he talked about speaking with Luke after his son had defended him concerning doping allegations.
Armstrong turns emotional in 2nd part of interview
CHICAGO — Lance Armstrong finally cracked. Not while expressing deep remorse or regrets, though there was plenty of that in Friday night’s second part of Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey...
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