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People celebrate early election returns favoring Washington state Referendum 74, which would legalize gay marriage, during a large impromptu street gathering in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. The re-election of President Barack Obama and Referendum 74 drew the most supporters to the streets. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Popular vote of 52 percent leads Washington to approve gay marriage

By The Associated Press November 8, 2012

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has approved gay marriage, joining Maine and Maryland as the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. Voter returns released since election...

FILE - In this July 20 2012 file photo gallery curator Anna Wolska presents a photo of Marylin Monroe and Arthur Miller by the late celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene, in Warsaw, Poland. Some 238 pictures by the late photographer Milton H. Greene including portraits of Monroe, along with Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Liza Minnelli, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Newman, Alfred Hitchcock and Marlon Brando, which are to be auctioned off in Warsaw on Thursday Nov. 8, 2012. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Polish state which owns a collection of around 4,000 pictures by Greene. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File)

Milton H. Greene’s Marilyn Monroe photos on auction in Poland

By The Associated Press November 8, 2012

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Who doesn’t want a picture of Marilyn Monroe? Hundreds of photographs of the blonde bombshell and other celebrities, including famous ones of Monroe in bed and as a...

FILE - In this Oct. 24,2012 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for his weekly general audience. The Vatican spokesman on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 said that the 85-year-old Benedict will start tweeting from a personal Twitter account, perhaps before the end of the year. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope to join celebrities, presidents with personal Twitter feed by 2013

By The Associated Press November 8, 2012

VATICAN CITY (AP) — He already has a billion followers. Now, Pope Benedict XVI will join the Twitter-sphere, tweeting from a personal account along with the world’s celebrities, leaders and...

Archaeologist shows an artifact, part of 2,400-year old golden hoard found in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgarian village of Sveshtari, some 400 kilometer (250 miles) northeast of Sofia, on Thursday, Nov 8, 2012. Prof. Diana Gergova , archeologist and team leader said that among the artifacts, dated back to the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century B.C., were gold jewelry and applications for horse trappings, a tiara with reliefs of lions and fantasy animals, as well as four bracelets and a ring. (AP Photo/ImpactPressGroup)

Archaeologists discover Thracian golden jewelry in Bulgarian village

By The Associated Press November 8, 2012

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Archaeologists say they have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria. The treasure was found on Thursday near the...

Recipients picked for BP tourism, seafood grants following oil spill

By The Associated Press November 7, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than 100 nonprofit groups and government entities have been picked to get shares of $43.7 million in BP funds to promote the Gulf Coast’s tourism and seafood industries...

Political campaigns, runoffs continue in Louisiana until December

By The Associated Press November 7, 2012

(AP) — While the national political focus shifted Wednesday from election debates to governing, the campaign season hasn’t wrapped up in Louisiana, with several races headed to a December runoff. At...

California man behind anti-Muslim film sentenced to year in prison

By The Associated Press November 7, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California man behind an anti-Muslim film that roiled the Middle East was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison for violating his probation stemming from a 2010 bank fraud...

Los Angeles County voters approve mandate on condom use on porn sets

By The Associated Press November 7, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County voters have approved a measure requiring porn performers to wear condoms while filming sex scenes, prompting a pledge by the adult entertainment industry to...

Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, waters medical marijuana plants in a grow room, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Seattle. Washington state is on the verge of becoming the first in the nation to let adults over 21 buy taxed, inspected marijuana at state-licensed shops. Supporters of Initiative 502 say allowing recreational pot sales could make drug laws a little more reasonable, prevent thousands of arrests a year, and bring Washington hundreds of millions of dollars to help pay for schools, health care and basic government services. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Marijuana votes in two states challenge United States drug war

By The Associated Press November 7, 2012

DENVER (AP) — First came marijuana as medicine. Now comes legal pot for the people. Those who have argued for decades that legalizing and taxing weed would be better than a costly, failed U.S. drug...

Nearly complete mammoth skeleton uncovered by archaeologists in France

By The Associated Press November 7, 2012

PARIS (AP) — Archaeologists in France have unearthed a rather hairy fossil — a nearly complete skeleton of a mammoth. The bones — thought to belong to a creature that roamed the earth...

A dollhouse is seen inside a damaged house after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck in San Marcos, Guatemala, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. The mountain village, some 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the epicenter, suffered much of the damage with some 30 homes collapsing in its center. There are three confirmed dead and many missing after the strongest earthquake to hit Guatemala since a deadly 1976 quake that killed 23,000. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Powerful earthquake hits Guatemalan town, killing at least 39 people

By The Associated Press November 7, 2012

SAN MARCOS, Guatemala (AP) — A 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked Guatemala on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people as it toppled thick adobe walls, shook huge landslides down onto highways and sent...

Puerto Rico's Gov. Luis Fortuno concedes victory to his main challenger, Alejandro Garcia Padilla during a press conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. Fortuno is from Puerto Rico's pro-statehood party while his rival supports maintaining the island's semi-autonomous status. Fortuno, also a Republican, had been a supporter of Mitt Romney and campaigned for him in Florida. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Puerto Rico vote endorses statehood with asterisk, island remains divided

By The Associated Press November 7, 2012

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Ricans have supported U.S. statehood in a vote that jubilant members of the pro-statehood party say is the strongest sign yet that the Caribbean island territory...