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Mormons throw support behind gay-rights cause, proposed laws

By The Associated Press
November 12, 2009

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It looked like a stunning reversal: The same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law.On Tuesday,...

Missing US paratrooper’s body found in river in Afghanistan

By The Associated Press
November 11, 2009

KABUL (AP) — Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retrieve airdropped supplies from a river in western...

Mexican city fires 25 percent of traffic police for failing tests

By The Associated Press
November 11, 2009

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Mexico's third-largest city has fired almost a quarter of its traffic police for failing tests designed to detect corruption and ineptitude.And half of Monterrey's traffic...

Hezbollah leader lashes out at Obama for bias in favor of Israel

By The Associated Press
November 11, 2009

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Hezbollah's leader on Wednesday accused President Barack Obama of absolute bias in favor of Israel and disregard for the dignity of Arabs and Muslims.Sheik Hassan Nasrallah...

Search for Plaquemines 70-year-old fisherman continues

By The Associated Press
November 10, 2009

POINTE A LA HACHE, La. (AP) — Plaquemines Parish sheriff's deputies are searching for a 70-year-old fisherman who was knocked overboard from his small boat as Tropical Storm Ida approached Monday.Authorities...

Obama salutes Fort Hood victims, promises justice for killer

By The Associated Press
November 10, 2009

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Somberly reciting 13 names and 13 stories, President Obama saluted the Americans killed at this Army post as heroes who died for their country — and promised a nation...

New Orleans amusement park revival hits new snag

By The Associated PressNEW ORLEANS (AP) - The revival of an amusement park flooded by Hurricane Katrina
November 10, 2009

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The revival of an amusement park flooded by Hurricane Katrina has suffered a setback after the cable television network Nickelodeon said it has ended its relationship with a Louisiana...

New York governor pushes for gay marriage vote next week

By The Associated Press
November 10, 2009

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's governor is pushing state lawmakers to consider a bill to legalize same-sex marriage next week after his effort to force a Senate vote appears to have all but lost.Gov....

Three more Louisiana deaths blamed on complications from swine flu

By The Associated Press
November 10, 2009

 (AP) — The state Department of Health and Hospitals says three more people in Louisiana have died from complications of swine flu bringing the total to 33 deaths in the state since August.Health...

North, South Korea clash at sea before Obama visits

By The Associated Press
November 10, 2009

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The navies of North and South Korea clashed at sea Tuesday for the first time in seven years a week before President Obama's visit to Seoul.

United Airlines pilot charged with being over alcohol limit

By The Associated Press
November 10, 2009

LONDON (AP) — A United Airlines pilot who was pulled from his trans-Atlantic flight to Chicago shortly before takeoff has been charged with having too much alcohol in his system, British police said...

NATO seizes 250 tons of bomb-making materials in Afghanistan

By The Associated Press
November 10, 2009

KABUL (AP) — International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs, the Taliban's most lethal weapon in...