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Alexandre Meneghini / AP Mexico's President Calls For a Country #SinHomofobia
President Enrique Peña Nieto said Tuesday he would seek to legalize gay marriage nationwide.
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Track of the Day: 'Anyhow, I Love You'
Guy Clark, one of the finest songwriters in Texas country history and a Nashville legend, has died. A…
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Larry Downing / Reuters The Long Airport Lines of Summer
As airport passengers face historically long security lines, the Transportation Security Administration says it’s shorthanded.
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Timothy A. Clary / Reuters The Senate's Unanimous Vote to Let 9/11 Victims' Families Sue Saudi Arabia
The bill now goes on to the House, but President Obama has vowed to veto it, citing potential risk to Americans serving overseas.
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Jae C. Hong / AP An Indictment For 20,000 Gallons of Oil Spilled in the Pacific
Investigators looking into the 2015 oil spill near Santa Barbara, California, found the pipeline was cracked and nearly worn through.
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Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters Why American Sanctions on Burma Are Easing
The Southeast Asian country has transitioned to a democracy, but the military is still powerful—and some U.S. sanctions will stay in place.
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Alessandra Tarantino / AP The Ancient Military Barracks Hidden Under Rome’s Streets
Workers have found ruins dating back to the second century while constructing a new subway line near the Colosseum.
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Norsk Telegrambyra / Reuters Elon Musk Is Sorry Foreign Workers May Have Built His Factory For $5 an Hour
A Slovenian construction worker claims a Tesla subcontractor owes more than 140 foreign workers $2.6 million in neglected pay.
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Joseph Kaczmarek / AP 'Preventable Tragedy': Amtrak 188 and the Case for Positive Train Control
The NTSB concludes that the engineer in a deadly 2015 crash in Philadelphia was distracted by radio traffic, following rocks striking another train.
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Mark D. Smith / USA Today Sports On Describing Black Athletes as ‘Monkeys’
The Oklahoma City center Steven Adams has apologized for calling his black opponents “quick little monkeys.”
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The Mexican Secretariat of the Navy The Beached Whales on Mexico’s Shores
A pod of whales have died after rescuers near the fishing village of San Felipe could not push them into deeper water.
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Torsten Blackwood / Pool / AP Job Cuts at Australian Agency That Studies Climate Change
In all, 275 positions at CSIRO are being eliminated, including that of a prominent scientist who studied sea-level rise.
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Gustau Nacarino / Reuters Targeting Drug Cheats at the Olympics
The IOC says up to 31 athletes from six sports could be banned from competing at the games in Rio.
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Leonhard Foeger / Pool / AP An Attempt to Revive Peace Talks in Syria
More than a dozen countries, including the U.S. and Russia, tried to reimpose a cease-fire between the Syrian government and rebel groups—but they were unable to set a date for new talks.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters The Fire Returns for Fort McMurray
As the winds shifted the blaze, government officials ordered the evacuation of oilfield workers near Fort McMurray.
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Khalid Mohammed / AP More Bombings in Iraq
Multiple attacks in Shia-dominated parts of Baghdad have killed dozens.
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Wilson Ring / AP What Killed Burlington College?
The small Vermont liberal-arts college will close up shop this month, and a controversial real-estate deal made by Jane Sanders, Bernie Sanders’s wife, may be to blame.
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Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters The Cultural Revolution’s Legacy in China
The Chinese government did not celebrate the 50th anniversary of the bloody period, but President Xi Jinping’s actions have drawn comparisons to the era.
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NASA The International Space Station's Odometer Hits 100,000 Orbits
The space laboratory has now traveled about 2.6 billion miles since 1998.
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Reuters The Geopolitics of Eurovision
Ukrainian officials are thrilled and their Russian counterparts fuming at the results of the popular singing competition.