World & Nation

  • California court backs gay marriages

    Gay couples in California may soon be headed to the altar after that state's Supreme Court knocked down a state law banning same-sex marriage Thursday.
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  • House rejects bills to fund wars

    President Bush's Iraq war funding request collapsed in the House Thursday as anti-war Democrats and Republicans unhappy about added domestic funding combined to kill — for now — $163 billion to support U.S. troops overseas.
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  • Quake toll could reach 50,000

    Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead. Officials said the final toll could more than double to 50,000.
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  • Up to 350,000 not getting child credit

    As many as 350,000 households are not getting the $300 per child refund owed as part of economic stimulus rebate payments, the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday.
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A road grader accidentally tore open a fuel pipeline Thursday and sent an inferno raging over houses and a school on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria. (Associated Press)
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Deadly inferno
A road grader accidentally tore open a fuel pipeline Thursday and sent an inferno raging over houses and a school on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria.