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    NYT: After ruling, gay marriage again an issue?

    May 15: California's Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage, making California the second state to allow gay couples to wed. NBC Chief Justice Correspondent Pete Williams reports. (Nightly News)Analysis: The California Supreme Court's overturning of the state’s ban on same-sex marriage seems likely to put the issue back onto the national political stage for the time being.


    China president tours quake zone

    epa01346576 President of China Hu Jintao (R) visit the earthquake disaster site in Beichuan, Sichuan province, China, 16 May 2008. The official death toll from the 12 May 2008 earthquake is now 19,509 and is expected to exceed 50,000 in the end. EPA/STRChinese President Hu Jintao said rescue efforts following this week's earthquake entered their "most crucial" phase Friday, as the country braced for a death toll expected to rise above 50,000.


    Vitamin D may save breast cancer patients

    Breast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D were much more likely to die of the disease or have it spread than patients getting enough of the nutrient, a study found — adding to evidence the "sunshine vitamin'' has anti-cancer benefits.

    Spurs steamroll Hornets, force Game 7

    San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili celebrates after making a basket against the New Orleans Hornets during the first quarter in Game 6 of their second round NBA playoff basketball series in San Antonio, Texas May 15, 2008.  REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi (UNITED STATES)Manu Ginobili scored 25 points, Tim Duncan added 20 points and 15 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs beat the New Orleans Hornets 99-80 on Thursday night to force a seventh game in the Western Conference semifinals.


    Bush finishes Israel trip, heads to Saudi Arabia

    President Bush put the finishing touch on his celebrate-and-be-celebrated Israel stay, leaving the Holy Land Friday with no movement on Mideast peace but hoping to fare better in Saudi Arabia at obtaining help for soaring gas prices at home.

    Local heroes step in for Myanmar cyclone victims

    Myanmar volunteers serve a free breakfast to children at a temple after the destructive Cyclone Nargis on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, May 12, 2008. From a shopkeeper offering free rice porridge to medical students treating the countless sick, ordinary people in Myanmar are stepping up to help cyclone victims while the military regime restricts critically needed international aid. From shopkeepers handing out free rice porridge to medical students caring for the sick, ordinary people in Myanmar are stepping in to help cyclone victims.


    U.S. Marine guilty of abuse in Japan

    An American Marine was found guilty in a military court of abusive sexual conduct of a 14-year-old Japanese girl in Okinawa, southern Japan, the military said Friday.

    Women rise in Rwanda's revival

    video screen grab by Travis Fox / washingtonpost.com Jeanette Nyirabaganwa was nearly killed with her family in the genocide. She recovered and went on to run her family's coffee farm more efficiently than any of her male relatives were able to before the genocide. Here, she helps her workers pick beans from her coffee trees. One of the most interesting changes in Rwanda after the genocide is the greater role of women.Female entrepreneurs in Rwanda are proving themselves key to the country's economic revival, running thriving coffee farms and other businesses as society rebuilds following the 1990s genocide.


    Clean-air rules for parks may be eased

    ** FILE ** The view from Clingman's Dome on the Tennessee, North Carolina line, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is seen here in an undated file photo. The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to set new rules by early 2005 aimed at cutting air pollution in national parks and wilderness areas, in a court settlement with an environmental group Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003. (AP Photo/File)The Bush administration is on the verge of implementing new air quality rules that will make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas, according to rank-and-file agency scientists and park managers who oppose the plan.


    Squeezed shoppers downsizing

    The milk display in the dairy department at a Kroger store shows the company's new 3/4 gallon milk container, Wednesday, May 7, 2008, in Cincinnati. Kroger is marketing the 3/4 gallon size in response to reports that consumers are buying smaller sizes of food so they don't have to put out as much money at one time. Shoppers have been lugging ever-larger products to their ever-bigger cars for years. Now, more of them are feeling so pinched by the economy that they are buying a little at a time.


    Palestinians mark 1948 uprooting

    Palestinians burn a U.S. flag during a demonstration marking Israel's 60th anniversary, which Palestinians call the "nakba," or catastrophe, the word they use to describe Israel's establishment which resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, in the West Bank city of Nablus Thursday, May 15, 2008. Palestinians marked the 60th anniversary of their uprooting with rallies, sirens and black balloons Thursday — an annual ritual made darker this year by crippling divisions.


    IRS flubbed up to 350,000 tax rebates

    Up to 350,000 households aren't getting the $300 per child owed them as part of their economic stimulus rebate payments, the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday.

    Memorial Day travel costs soar

    ** FILE ** Traffic backs up on I-395 and Seminary Road in Alexandria, Va. in this Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006 file photo during the afternoon rush hour. Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study released Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, FILE)High fuel prices are prompting many Americans to reconsider their Memorial Day travel plans, AAA says.


    GOP calls Dems' war funding bluff

    U.S. Army's soldier from the 3rd Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division runs to take cover behind an armored vehicle during a patrol in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Did the House of Representatives vote Thursday to end funding for the Iraq war? It may look that way, but behind the vote there's a complicated card game going on between Democrats and Republicans.


    Flight attendant accused of setting fire on plane

    A 19-year-old flight attendant has been accused of setting a fire aboard a commercial airplane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Fargo, N.D.

    Obama blasts Bush's 'Nazi' comments

    In this Friday, May 9, 2008 picture, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a rally in the Memorial Quad on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore. Oregon is fertile ground for Obama, the self-described "change" candidate. The state that has led the way in everything from bike trails to assisted suicide is also the first to vote entirely by mail. Oregon's 2 million-plus voters began receiving ballots more than two weeks ago, and 22 percent have returned them, according to the secretary of state's office. The Democratic presidential candidate interpreted the president's remark to Israel's Knesset as a slam against him, but the White House denied the comment was in any way directed at the Illinois senator.


    Msnbc.com's FirstPerson wins EPpy

    Msnbc.com won accolades Thursday for a feature that creates community by allowing users to submit content to the Web site.

    Drug combo may help breast cancer patients

    A combination of two new-generation cancer drugs modestly delayed the time it took for cancer to worsen in a study of 300 women with very advanced disease who had stopped responding to other treatments.

    Woman indicted in MySpace suicide case

    **FILE** In this Monday, Nov. 19, 2007 file photo, Tina Meier holds two pictures of her daughter Megan who committed suicide last October after receiving cruel messages on MySpace, in St. Charles, Mo. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 15, 2008,  indicted a Missouri woman, Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against Megan Meier.  ( AP Photo/Tom Gannam, File)A Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted a Missouri woman on Thursday over an alleged role in a MySpace online hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.


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