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Adding to the good news of the day, the Delaware House of Representatives has approved marriage equality ( HB 75 ) by a vote of 23-18 . It now proceeds to the Senate, where it must pass out of committee before the full chamber considers it. Advocates are optimistic about passage. Governor Jack Markell (D) has strongly backed the bill

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Fox News host Heather Childers failed to disclose her employer’s financial ties to NASCAR and controversies over the National Rifle Association’s sponsorship of a NASCAR race during an interview with NASCAR chairman Brian France. On the April 15 edition of America Live , France responded to allegations made by driver Brad Keselowski that he was unfairly targeted by NASCAR officials because of incidents leading up to the April 14 NRA 500 race. After France denied Keselowski’s allegations, Childers allowed him to talk about NASCAR’s  Going Green initiative. Childers failed to mention, however, that Fox Sports — like Fox News, a division of News Corp

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A widely discredited rumor about Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel could cause headaches for Lou Dobbs, who endorsed that rumor on his Fox Business show. New York Daily News  reporter Dan Friedman  wrote  on Wednesday that he was the unintentional source of a rumor that Hagel had received funding from a terrorist-friendly group called “Friends of Hamas.”  That rumor was spread in right-wing media circles by Breitbart.com’s Ben Shapiro, who carelessly reported  earlier this month that Hagel was paid to speak to a group called “Friends of Hamas.” But, as detailed by Slate’s Dave Weigel and by the  New York Daily News , that organization does not actually  exist .

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The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today gave a 60 day reprieve to embattled French governmental electric utility, Électricité de France (EDF), which remains in violation of the Atomic Energy Act while attempting to obtain a license for a third nuclear reactor at the Calvert Cliffs, MD site. But Beyond Nuclear, which has opposed the third reactor and supports a nuclear phase out, views the decision as simply a delay in the inevitable cancellation of all French reactor plans on US soil

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After unmaking kings in Italy and Greece, Chancellor Merkel tries to make one in France.

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Olympic Cycling Game Theory. How you can win a race by going slow, very slow. Alex Tabarrok explains: Check out the following video from the World Cup 2012 Individual Sprint Track Cycling (similar scenes can be found at ..

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Mr. and Mrs. Can’t Do Anything Right Is Mitt Romney the absolute worst guy in the world at making friends and influencing people or what?

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Somehow mixing race with culture makes it ok to talk about race again. A race , because it finds unity in biology or historical myth tied to metaphors about blood, need not share (but might) a religion or language or culture or ..

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Following a three-day visit to the London 2012 Games, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged in a televised national address to redouble the National Government’s backing of Istanbul’s 2020 Summer …

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Mardy Fish acknowledges the crowd after his win over Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania during the Citi Open at William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, on August 2, in Washington, DC. Fish won 6-3, 6-1.Mardy Fish booked his first ATP quarter-final in five months as the top seed progressed at the ATP/WTA Washington event with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Ricardas Berankis

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