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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....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment Wednesday for arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds," a landmark sentence activists hope will send a clear message to despots around the world that they will be held to account for sponsoring atrocities....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment Wednesday for arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds," a landmark sentence activists hope will send a clear message to despots around the world that they will be held to account for sponsoring atrocities....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment Wednesday for arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds," a landmark sentence activists hope will send a clear message to despots around the world that they will be held to account for sponsoring atrocities....

The European Central Bank says that none of the eight countries that are supposed to join the euro are ready yet.

MAHACHAI, Thailand (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, on her first foreign trip in nearly a quarter-century, offered encouragement Wednesday to impoverished migrants whose flight from their homeland is emblematic of the devastation wrought there by decades of misrule....

Andrew Blum | Google doesn’t trust anyone—people, officials, even governments—to understand anything.

Paul Joseph Watson | Talk of machine guns & surveillance spooks hotel guests.

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.

The erratic blaze grew overnight to more than 170,000 acres, surpassing a blaze last year that burned 156,593 ...

Patrick Henningsen | For the blood thristy globalists, Iran is a primary target - but for Israel it's really about Lebanon and Syria.

AFP | Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Can we get that court to review U.S. leaders as well?

WASHINGTON — A gauge of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes fell in April from nearly a two-year high in the previous month.

The decline was the biggest in a year. Still, sales are well ahead of last year's level for the same month, suggesting the housing market is ...

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....

Plans which could have allowed some gamekeepers in England to capture buzzards and destroy their nests to stop them eating pheasants are abandoned.

Zen Gardner | This summer the Queen's 'Diamond Jubilee is dominating the UK media, a necessary PR smokescreen to cover Royal largess.

It's probably not the kind of thing voters will use to choose the leader of the free world.

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Supreme Court has endorsed the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, bringing the secret-spilling Internet activist a big step closer to prosecution in a Scandinavian court....

Apple CEO Tim Cook would someday like to see an Apple product manufactured in the United States, he told attendees of a technology gathering Tuesday.