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CHICAGO (AP) -- Building on the momentum of President Barack Obama's recent support of gay marriage, two major civil rights groups in his home state filed lawsuits Wednesday in hopes of legalizing same-sex marriage in Illinois....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A public interest group says as many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, sometimes even to access students' financial aid money....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A massive wildfire that has burned more than 265 square miles in the Gila National Forest has become the largest fire in New Mexico history, fire officials confirmed Wednesday....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A massive wildfire that has burned more than 265 square miles in the Gila National Forest has become the largest fire in New Mexico history, fire officials confirmed Wednesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's campaign is opening a new critique of Mitt Romney, focusing attention on the Republican's economic record as governor of Massachusetts....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's campaign is opening a new critique of Mitt Romney, focusing attention on the Republican's economic record as governor of Massachusetts....

This is not a good time to be a duck with a fatty liver in California, though better times lie just ahead....

This is not a good time to be a duck with a fatty liver in California, though better times lie just ahead....

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Prosecutors have filed animal cruelty charges against the owner and seven employees at a Southern California livestock auction house after undercover video shot by an animal rights group showed workers kicking, hitting and tossing the animals as they were readied for sale....

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Prosecutors have filed animal cruelty charges against the owner and seven employees at a Southern California livestock auction house after undercover video shot by an animal rights group showed workers kicking, hitting and tossing the animals as they were readied for sale....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The jury in John Edwards campaign finance corruption trial has started its eighth day of deliberations....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Treasury Department is levying sanctions on a key Syrian bank as it seeks to ratchet up economic pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Treasury Department is levying sanctions on a key Syrian bank as it seeks to ratchet up economic pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A day after apologizing for the first time, a former Rutgers University student convicted of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate gave up his right to remain free on Wednesday while New Jersey prosecutors appeal his 30-day jail sentence....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A day after apologizing for the first time, a former Rutgers University student convicted of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate gave up his right to remain free on Wednesday while New Jersey prosecutors appeal his 30-day jail sentence....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Mitt Romney has won the Republican presidential nomination after years of fighting, though his triumph was partially overshadowed by the celebrity businessman who helped him along the way....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Mitt Romney has won the Republican presidential nomination after years of fighting, though his triumph was partially overshadowed by the celebrity businessman who helped him along the way....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It seemed like a good idea at the time....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It seemed like a good idea at the time....

LEAD, S.D. (AP) -- Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe....