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“Step closer to equality”: Texas judge overthrows gay marriage ban
February 28, 2014In his ruling, the San Antonio judge wrote that the same-sex marriage ban "violates plaintiffs' equal protection and due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution."
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After gas explosion, Chevron offers victims free pizza
February 28, 2014The Chevron-owned fracking well shot flames into the air with a powerful boom, starting a fire that burned intensely for four days afterward before it was extinguished.
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Ukrainian ultra-rightists given major cabinet posts in government
February 28, 2014The Svoboda Party has scored six cabinet ministries in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday. Svoboda is an ultra-right, anti-Semitic, Russophobic party with its base of support in the Western Ukraine.
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Union says inner-city minorities are cheated on mass transit
February 28, 2014The differences in commuting times for inner-city minority residents and suburban non-minorities are significant enough to affect minorities' pay and job possibilities.
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Government workers: “Raise our pay 4 percent, not 1 percent!”
February 28, 2014A 4 percent hike would start to make up for the three years of federal pay freezes and increased pension contributions-without increased future pension payouts-that Congress imposed on federal workers.
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