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Gay marriage developments: Idaho couples marry

Gay marriage developments: Idaho couples marry

Gay marriage developments: Idaho couples marry

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Matthew Hamby, one of the plaintiffs in the successful lawsuit to overturn Alaska's same-sex marriage ban, reads the judge's decision while waiting for a clerk to process his marriage application Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, at the Department of Vital Statistics in Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge ruled on Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, that the ban was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)It's been more than a week since a flurry of gay marriage developments began with the Supreme Court's denial of appeals from five states, allowing for expansion of marriage rights. Shortly afterward, a federal court in the West struck down bans in Idaho and Nevada. Recent developments on same-sex marriage around the country:

US man guilty of assisting suicide gets jail time

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT

FILD - In this Feb. 17, 2011 file photo William Melchert-Dinkel, center, leaves court with his attorney Terry Watkins, right, and wife, Joyce Melchert-Dinkel in Faribault, Minn. Melchert-Dinkel, a former Minnesota nurse who admitted going online and encouraging an English man and a Canadian woman to kill themselves, was ordered Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 to serve 178 days in jail. He was sentenced to nearly five years in prison, but he won't have to serve the prison term if he complies with conditions of probation that include the jail time. (AP Photo/Robb Long, File)FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — A former nurse in Minnesota who admitted to going online years ago and preying upon suicidal people — encouraging two to take their lives — must serve nearly six months in jail as part of a sentence handed down Wednesday.

Syria-Iraq fight gets a name: 'Inherent Resolve'

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 8, 2014 file photo, an armored vehicle belonging to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters rushes to a bombing site as smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq. The airstrikes were launched outside the Kurdish regional capital Irbil, and marked the first time U.S. forces have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. It may be less punchy than previous nicknames for U.S. conflicts in the Middle East -- remember Operation Desert Storm and its thunderous attacks on Saddam Hussein's occupation army -- but the Pentagon has finally named its fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria: Operation Inherent Resolve. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — It's less punchy than previous nicknames for U.S. conflicts in the Middle East -- remember Operation Desert Storm and its thunderous attacks against Saddam Hussein? -- but the Pentagon has finally named its fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria: Operation Inherent Resolve.

Feminist speaker questions Utah's campus gun laws

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:55 PM PDT

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's campus gun laws are in the spotlight after a feminist speaker canceled a speech at Utah State University once she learned the school would allow concealed firearms despite an anonymous threat against her.

Yemen's Houthis advance near al Qaeda stronghold

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:55 PM PDT

File photo shows Shi'ite Houthi rebels riding a patrol truck in SanaaBy Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's new Shi'ite Muslim powerbrokers sent fighters towards an al Qaeda stronghold on Wednesday, raising the possibility of clashes between the politically ascendant Houthi movement and the hardline Sunni Muslims of the militant network. Witnesses said dozens of cars carrying armed Houthi fighters were seen arriving in the city of Ibb, bordering al-Bayda province, a bastion of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). ...

IS group has made 'substantial gains' in Iraq: US 

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:55 PM PDT

An image grab taken from a propaganda video released on March 17, 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's al-Furqan Media allegedly shows ISIL fighters at an undisclosed location in the Anbar provinceWashington (AFP) - Islamic State jihadists have made important advances in Iraq despite US-led air strikes, Washington's envoy to the US-led coalition fighting the group warned Wednesday.

Vatican mystery: Where did gay welcome originate?

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:52 PM PDT

Bishops and Cardinals attend a morning session of a two-week synod on family issues at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)VATICAN CITY (AP) — It's one of the great mysteries of the meeting on family life taking place behind closed doors at the Vatican this week: Just where did the authors of a draft report come up with such ground-breaking language that gays had gifts to offer the church and that even homosexual partnerships had merit?

Kosovo frees 8-year-old from Syria captivity

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:50 PM PDT

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo's Prime Minister says the country's intelligence and security forces have returned an 8-year-old ethnic Albanian boy to his mother in Kosovo after he was taken by his jihadi father to Syria.

HBO stand-alone streaming service coming in 2015

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:49 PM PDT

(L-R) Actors Michelle Fairley, John Bradley, Kit Harington, Rose Leslie, Emilia Clarke, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau arrive at the premiere of HBO's "Game Of Thrones" Season 3 at TCL Chinese Theatre on March 18, 2013 in Hollywood, CaliforniaNew York (AFP) - US media giant Time Warner said Wednesday it would launch a stand-alone HBO streaming service from next year, offering viewers without cable subscription hit shows like "Game of Thrones" and "Girls."

Judge gets sanity exam of theater shooting suspect

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:49 PM PDT

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A psychiatrist has submitted the results of a second sanity evaluation of the man charged with a mass killing in a Colorado movie theater.

Top House Dem to party allies: Help our campaigns

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:48 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — With House Democrats struggling to avoid becoming an even smaller minority, the head of their campaign effort chided their outside allies Wednesday for trimming support for the party's House candidates and issued an eleventh-hour plea for more help.

U.S. hits targets around Kobani for humanitarian purposes: Allen

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:47 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is bombing targets in Kobani for humanitarian purposes to relieve defenders of the Syrian town and give them time to organize against Islamic State militants, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday. "We are striking the targets around Kobani for humanitarian purposes. I'd be very reluctant to attempt to assign ... a term like 'a strategic target,' or 'a strategic outcome,'" retired U.S. General John Allen, the U.S. special envoy for building the coalition against Islamic State, told reporters. "Clearly ... ...

JFK wedding negatives being auctioned in Boston

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:46 PM PDT

In this Sept. 12, 1953 photo released by RR Auction, John F. Kennedy and his new bride Jacqueline leave St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church after their wedding in Newport, R.I. The photo is one of a collection of 13 original images made by Frank Ataman, of Fall River, Mass., being auctioned by RR Auction. The original negatives were discovered in his darkroom after he died. The auction closes Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/RR Auction, Frank Ataman)BOSTON (AP) — One black-and-white photograph captures a dapper John F. Kennedy slicing into his wedding cake. Another shows the family dog peeking out playfully from the folds of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's billowing white dress.

Vlad the impaled: Femen militant fined for stabbing Putin waxwork

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:44 PM PDT

The wax statue representing Russian President Valadimir Putin, whose head was damaged by an activist of the Femen feminist group, lies on the floor at the Grevin museum in Paris on June 5, 2014Paris (AFP) - A Ukrainian member of the Femen movement was slapped with over 6,000 euros ($7,300) in fines on Wednesday for impaling a wax statue of Russian President Vladimir Putin with a stake, while bare-breasted, in a Paris museum.

Man attacked by pit bulls in California dies

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 01:01 PM PDT

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — A central California man has died after he and his 77-year-old mother were mauled by a pack of pit bulls owned by his neighbors, sheriff's officials said Wednesday.

Egypt warplanes hit Libya militias, officials say

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:43 PM PDT

A fire truck drives towards smoke caused by an attack by Islamist militias during clashes with forces led by renegade Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Islamist militias fought Wednesday with forces loyal to Hifter, who vows to seize the eastern city of Benghazi, as a top militia commander accused Egypt of bombing his positions with warplanes. (AP Photo/Mohammed el-Sheikhy)BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Egypt deepened its involvement in the fight against Islamist militias who have taken over key parts of Libya on Wednesday, with officials saying Egyptian warplanes have bombed their positions in the eastern city of Benghazi.

Serbia condemns Albanian flag drone stunt

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:42 PM PDT

Serbia's Stefan Mitrovic grabs a flag with Albanian national symbols flown by a remotely operated drone during the Euro 2016 group I football match between Serbia and Albania in Belgrade on October 14, 2014Belgrade (AFP) - Serbia's foreign minister said Wednesday an incident in which a pro-Albanian flag flown by drone sparked violence on and off the pitch at a football match against Albania was a "political provocation".

Gay marriage hits conservative stronghold Idaho

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:40 PM PDT

Shelia Robertson, center, and her son Bridger, bottom center, react at as the county recorder opens at 10 a.m. to issue same-sex marriage licenses at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Robertson and her partner Andrea Altmayer, left, partially hidden, were two of the eight women who sued over Idaho's marriage ban,. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger)BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Gay marriage arrived in one of the most conservative states in the nation Wednesday as more than 100 same-sex couples gathered early at the Boise courthouse and counted down the seconds before the clerk's office opened to issue marriage licenses.

US panel hears appeal on NY stop and frisk case

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:40 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's police unions say they should be able to fight a federal judge's ruling that the police department's stop and frisk policy violated civil rights.

Police: Man stabbing people on bus fatally shot

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:40 PM PDT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut State Police are having trouble identifying a man who wounded two passengers on a casino-bound bus on Interstate 95 before a trooper shot him to death.

Killer of country comic 'Stringbean' gets parole

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:39 PM PDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The killer of Grand Ole Opry and "Hee Haw" comic David "Stringbean" Akeman and his wife Estelle was granted parole Wednesday after 40 years in prison.

ACLU lawyer given Justice Dept. civil rights post

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:35 PM PDT

This undated handout photo provided by the Justice Department shows Vanita Gupta. An American Civil Liberties Union attorney was named Wednesday as the acting head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. Gupta, who has served for the past four years as deputy legal director of the ACLU and director of its Center for Justice, starts at the Justice Department next week. She previously worked as a lawyer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. (AP Photo/Justice Department)WASHINGTON (AP) — An American Civil Liberties Union attorney was named Wednesday as the acting head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

New Texas nurse with Ebola had fever on airliner

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:33 PM PDT

Emergency personnel wearing protective clothing approach a residential apartment after a second healthcare worker tested positive for the Ebola virus in DallasBy Lisa Maria Garza and Terry Wade DALLAS (Reuters) - A second Texas nurse who has contracted Ebola flew on a commercial flight from Ohio to Dallas with a slight temperature the day before she was diagnosed, health officials said on Wednesday, raising new concerns about U.S. efforts to control the disease. Chances that other passengers on the plane were infected were very low, but the nurse should not have been traveling on the flight, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Thomas Frieden told reporters. ...

Colts' Irsay embraces opportunity to get to work

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2014, file photo, Indianapolis Colts tight end Jack Doyle (84) dives in for a two-yard touchdown reception against Philadelphia Eagles outside linebacker Connor Barwin (98) during the first half of an NFL football game in Indianapolis. Indy's 0-2 start seems distant after four straight wins to give the defending division champs the inside track to another division crown. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jim Irsay hated being away from his team for six games. He says he appreciates his ownership role even more now.

College to pay writer $26,000 for rescinded invite

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:32 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 3, 2012, file photo, Grand Marshal Dustin Lance Black applauds as he leads the annual Gay Pride Parade through downtown Salt Lake City. Pasadena City College has agreed to pay Oscar-winning screenwriter Black $26,000 not to sue after the school rescinded an invitation to speak at commencement. The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 that community college officials were concerned about the school's image after a stolen sex video with Black was posted online. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Scott Sommerdorf, File) DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; MAGS OUTPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A California community college agreed to pay Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black $26,050 for rescinding a commencement speaking offer after a stolen sex video emerged online of the "Milk" writer.

UN refugee chief says Europe must open borders

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:32 PM PDT

Syrian Kurdish refugee children that have fled fighting in Kobani, Syria with their families, peer from a window of a public warehouse building where families have found refuge, in Suruc at the Turkey-Syria border, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. The onslaught has forced more than 200,000 people to flee across the border into Turkey. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of the United Nations refugee agency on Wednesday urged countries, particularly in Europe, to review their laws to allow entry to more Syrians fleeing their country's civil war.

2nd Texas health worker tests positive for Ebola

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:31 PM PDT

Dallas Police and city officials meet in the parking lot of The Village Bend East apartments where a second healthcare worker tested positive for Ebola, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Dallas. The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was monitoring herself for symptoms, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said. The unidentified woman reported a fever Tuesday. She was in isolation within 90 minutes, Jenkins said. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)DALLAS (AP) — The Ebola crisis in the U.S. took another alarming turn Wednesday with word that a second Dallas nurse caught the disease from a patient and flew across the Midwest aboard an airliner the day before she fell ill. President Barack Obama canceled a campaign trip to address the outbreak.

New US Ebola case a nurse who treated man in Texas

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:30 PM PDT

DALLAS (AP) — The second health care worker diagnosed with Ebola in Texas is a 29-year-old nurse who treated a Liberian man in the days before he died of the disease in a Dallas hospital.

Dems hope for strong get-out-the-vote success

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:23 PM PDT

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Michelle Nunn, center, greets fellow Fulton County voter Victoria Williams during early voting at the Adamsville Recreation Center on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014 in Atlanta. Nunn is running against Republican David Perdue.(AP Photo/David Tulis)LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Democrats claimed a big success after former President Bill Clinton campaigned across several college campuses in Arkansas recently. They declared they had signed up enough partisans to fill more than 4,000 volunteer shifts in their drive to re-elect Sen. Mark Pryor and help other candidates.

US: Turkey eyeing larger role against militants

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:23 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. envoy coordinating the global fight against Islamic State militants says officials are still negotiating how much of a role Turkey will take in the burgeoning war on its border.

Putin warns U.S. spat over Ukraine threatens global stability

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:22 PM PDT

Russia's President Putin attends a meeting with members of the All-Russian People's Front group to discuss issues on education in PenzaBy Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin warned Washington that a spat between nuclear powers over the Ukraine crisis could threaten global stability and said in remarks published on Wednesday that Russia would not be "blackmailed" by sanctions. Taking a tough line on the eve of talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Milan, Putin said the sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union over Moscow's role in the crisis were hindering peace moves. ...

Ebola-infected nurse related to Kent State workers, attended school

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:19 PM PDT

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The second Texas nurse to test positive for Ebola attended Kent State University and is related to three employees there, but she did not visit the campus while she was in Ohio this weekend, the university said on Wednesday. The woman, who was identified by her family as Amber Vinson, 29, stayed with her family at their home in Summit County and did not step foot on the campus, Kent State President Beverly Warren said in a statement. ...

White House: 'Shortcomings' in Texas Ebola case

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:17 PM PDT

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Earnest responded to questions regarding the government's response to the Ebola outbreak. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is conceding that there were shortcomings in the response to an Ebola patient's care in Texas that ended up with two health care workers testing positive for the disease.

US, Iran seek magic formula in nuclear talks

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:17 PM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left), European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hold a trilateral meeting in Vienna, on October 15, 2014Vienna (AFP) - Ensconced for hours in a Vienna hotel room, US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart tried Wednesday to resuscitate troubled talks about limiting Tehran's nuclear programme.

Putin to focus on Ukraine during trip to Milan

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:15 PM PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives prior to heading the Human Rights Council in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Kirill Kydryavtsev, Pool)MOSCOW (AP) — Trying to maneuver out of the worst Russia-West crisis since the Cold War, President Vladimir Putin is unleashing a diplomatic blitz involving a series of meetings with Western leaders during his visit to Italy.

Second US Ebola case 'very concerning,' more possible

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:13 PM PDT

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, listens while US President Barack Obama makes a statement to the press at the White House on October 6, 2014 in Washington, DCWashington (AFP) - The second infection of a Texas health care worker with the dangerous Ebola virus is "very concerning," officials said Wednesday, warning more US cases were possible in the coming days.

HK legal chief says govt 'impartial' on police brutality

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:12 PM PDT

A pro-democracy protester gestures in between clashes with police outside the central government offices in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong on October 15, 2014Hong Kong (AFP) - Hong Kong's justice chief insisted Wednesday that any prosecution of plainclothes officers who were filmed beating a handcuffed protester would be handled impartially, as fresh clashes broke out on the city's streets.

2 men cleared in 1985 NYC kidnapping, killing

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:08 PM PDT

In this November 2009 photo provided by Marc Lamy, David McCallum sits for a photo while shooting a documentary film, "David & Me", at Arthur Kill correctional facility in New York. Now, almost 30 years later, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson plans to ask a judge Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, to throw out the convictions of McCallum and the late Willie Stuckey, saying their convictions hinged on made-up confessions peppered with details seemingly supplied by police. (AP Photo/Marc Lamy)NEW YORK (AP) — A man who served nearly 30 years in prison for murder was ordered freed Wednesday after prosecutors concluded he falsely confessed when he was 16.

Time Warner to launch HBO as streaming broadband service

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:07 PM PDT

A woman walks past the Time Warner Center near Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New YorkBy Jennifer Saba NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's HBO will launch a standalone online streaming service next year to make hit shows such as "Game of Thrones" available to people who do not subscribe to cable television. The move to take HBO "over-the-top" - media jargon that means consumers can watch the channel with only a broadband connection - is a significant milestone for a channel long dependent on cable distributors. It could be a further catalyst spurring more people to dump their cable subscriptions by cutting the cord. ...

'Bama, Oklahoma face possible playoff elimination

Posted: 15 Oct 2014 12:05 PM PDT

Alabama NCAA college football coach Nick Saban talks with the media, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/AL.com, Vasha Hunt) MAGS OUTNo. 5 Notre Dame and No. 2 Florida State will whittle the field of unbeatens in major college football when they meet Saturday night in Tallahassee, Florida.
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