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President Obama endorsed the right of same-sex couples to marry on Wednesday, a landmark pronouncement made in light of mounting pressure from gay right advocates. Obama became the first U.S.
 
First Read: Tuesday?s results were largely expected but the margins in Indiana, North Carolina and even West Virginia were surprising.
First Read: Defeated senator warns against "unrelenting partisan mindset" of Richard Mourdock, who defeated Lugar in Tuesday?s primary.
Noted hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, known for creating the ?bob,? was found dead on Wednesday at age 84. Police were dispatched to Sassoon?s Los Angeles home on Mulholland Drive at 10:30 a.m.
 Oregon public health officials have traced a nasty outbreak of norovirus infections in a group of soccer players to an unlikely source: a reusable grocery bag contaminated with what some experts are calling ?the perfect pathogens.?
The number of girls suffering concussions in soccer accounts for the second largest amount of all concussions reported by young athletes, according to the American Journal of Sports Medicine. Kate Snow reports for Rock Center.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain took over Bankia, the country's fourth biggest lender, on Wednesday, trying to dispel concerns over the government's ability to clean up the financial sector four years after the banks were hit by a property market crash. In a deal that will give the state a 45 percent indirect stake in Bankia, the government will take control of its parent company BFA by converting into equity a 4.5 billion euro loan it had given the financial group previously, the central bank said. ...
 (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc forecast quarterly earnings below Wall Street's expectations, accentuating concerns about global technology spending and the network equipment maker's ability to weather persistent economic weakness. Shares in the company, which relies on government and corporate spending on Internet gear, slid more than 9 percent after hours, despite beating analysts' third-quarter earnings estimates by a penny. ...
 Pioneering British celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon died Wednesday at his California home, the Los Angeles Police Department said. He was 84.
 (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Wednesday posted a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit, aided by its cable networks and movie studio business, and its shares rose more than 4 percent in post-market trade. The company's fiscal third-quarter net income rose to $937 million, or 38 cents a share, from $639 million, or 24 cents a share, a year ago. On an adjusted basis, News Corp earned 37 cents, compared with the 31 cents expected on average by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Revenue increased 2 percent to $8.4 billion. ...
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The family of Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier held prisoner by the Taliban since 2009, says it is frustrated that more than a year of covert diplomacy has been unable to free their son and is urging President Barack Obama's administration to push harder for his release. Bob Bergdahl, speaking out about his son's case after a long silence, said he hopes U.S. negotiators will press ahead with efforts to set in motion a chain of events intended in part to lead to the release of his son, believed to be held in Pakistan since he went missing in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House intelligence committee Chairman Mike Rogers on Wednesday said he was concerned that the Obama administration did not brief members of Congress earlier about the foiled underwear bomb plot and said it raised a whiff of election-year politics. His comments came as a senior U.S. intelligence official said the Intelligence community has begun an "internal review" into possible leaks of classified information about the "underwear bomb" operation. The review is not considered at this point to be an investigation which has criminal implications. ...
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to get married. Here are some reactions to his shift on the divisive issue that is likely to play a role in the November 6 presidential election. REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MITT ROMNEY "I have the same view on marriage that I had when I was governor and that I have expressed many times. I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. ...
 US stocks pared early sharp losses Wednesday to close with moderate losses after European Union officials confirmed that Greece would get the next installment of bailout funds this week.
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