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Gay Marriage is Coming to Utah

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The Salt Lake City Tribune is reporting that Robert J. Shelby, a U.S. District Court federal judge has struck down the state's ban on gay marriage, saying it violates the U.S. Constitution, specifically its provisions on equal protection and due process...

Wyoming judge: Fracking fluid formulas are trade secrets

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The state of Wyoming has won in a lawsuit against environmentalists hoping to find out what's in fracking fluid...

Ron Paul criticizes Obama for U.S. role in killing of al-Awlaki

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LOS ANGELES — Ron Paul, the Texas congressman who is...

Judges rule ‘millennium bomber’ sentence too lenient

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LOS ANGELES — The 22-year prison sentence given to would-be Los Angeles International Airport bomber Ahmed Ressam is so lenient that it constitutes procedural error and failure by the Seattle judge who sentenced him to adequately protect the public, a federal ...

Boulder and Sunshine Laws: Not-so-sunny days

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If you aren’t a member of the news media, you may not be aware that it’s officially Sunshine Week, so here’s your chance to celebrate. It shouldn’t just be journalists who are taking time this week to appreciate our so-called sunshine laws — we all benefit greatly ...

Mitt Romney using Kid Rock’s ‘Born Free’ as campaign song

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WASHINGTON — Republican presidential contender Mitt...

How America’s Schools Became the Battleground Between Church and State

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THE PROBLEM OF the place of religion in the American public...

Second term should be mandate for Obama

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Now is the time, writes John Nichols for The Nation, for President Barack Obama to govern...

U.S. stocks slip; oil-inventory data are mixed

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NEW YORK — U.S. stocks slipped Wednesday, led by consumer and energy sectors, as preliminary oil-inventory data were mixed...

TiVo, Dish Network and EchoStar settle dispute

LOS ANGELES — Dish Network Corp. and its former EchoStar division agreed to pay TiVo Inc. $500 million to settle a long-running patent dispute involving digital video recorder technology...

Startup Converts Plastic To Oil, And Finds A Niche

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Only 7 percent of plastic waste in the United States is recycled each...

Google, Samsung cancel product launch out of respect for Jobs

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — The death of Apple Inc. co-founder...