NEWS
IN A FEW
State:
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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Attorney General Bill
Lockyer is expected to file an application
Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court that
could result in the reinstatement of the
death sentence for convicted murderer Kevin
Cooper
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- NASA's Opportunity rover
ground into a rock outcrop on Mars and excited
scientists prepared to examine its makeup
to learn whether it was formed under watery
conditions favorable to life, mission members
said Tuesday.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Even as Attorney General
Bill Lockyer prepared court papers Tuesday
to stop same-sex marriages, a pair of conservative
Republicans who helped organize last year's
recall of former Gov. Gray Davis announced
plans to remove Lockyer from office for
'neglecting' state marriage laws.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's
$15 billion bond measure is supported by
about half the likely California voters
surveyed in two statewide polls released
Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former bookkeeper
for EarthLink co-founder Reed Slatkin pleaded
guilty Monday to obstructing a federal fraud
probe that resulted in Slatkin being sentenced
to 14 years in prison.
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TWENTYNINE PALMS (AP) -- A naval investigator
testified Monday that a Marine reservist
accused of lying about killing two Iraqis
occasionally boasted about military exploits
that didn't occur.
National:
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mexico and Canada, two
of America's top beef export markets, may
act within days to ease restrictions they
put on U.S. beef out of concern about mad
cow disease, the Agriculture Department's
chief economist said Tuesday.
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KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) -- Ketchikan artists
and retailers want to establish a Southeast
Alaska Native wax museum north of Ketchikan
to depict what life was like for the Haida,
Tlingit and Tsimshian people hundreds of
years ago.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A Santa Fe-based
environmental group is asking the federal
government to extend endangered species
protections to a type of prairie dog that
lives in the Four Corners region.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jumping into a volatile
election-year debate on same-sex weddings,
President Bush on Tuesday backed a constitutional
amendment banning gay marriage -- a move
he said was needed to stop judges from changing
the definition of the 'most enduring human
institution.'
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Moose numbers
near McGrath, where a state-sponsored aerial
wolf kill program is under way, have increased
slightly in the last two years, a state
agency said Monday.
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LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- Nearly five years
after the Columbine High massacre, officials
will release a new report and thousands
of pieces of evidence Thursday that may
explain why authorities, parents and friends
missed so many warning signs from the teenage
killers.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Salvage divers worked
Tuesday to move a shipwreck that has obstructed
the lower Mississippi River since the weekend
and bottled up scores of freighters and
cruise ships.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Oral arguments on a
motion to reconsider the U.S. Supreme Court
decision that legalized abortion 31 years
ago have been canceled by a federal appeals
court, which will now only review written
pleadings in the case.
International:
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AL HOCEIMA, Morocco (AP) -- A powerful earthquake
devastated an isolated, picturesque region
of northern Morocco on Tuesday, killing
more than 560 people as they slept, injuring
hundreds more and laying ruin to villages
that suffered for decades under government
neglect.
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PARIS (AP) -- The United States is suspending
imports of French cold cuts and foie gras
because of food safety concerns, France's
Agriculture Ministry said Tuesday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti's president
urgently appealed for the world's help Tuesday
to avert a bloodbath and a new exodus of
boat people as rebels threatened the capital.
Despite last-ditch diplomacy, an opposition
coalition rejected a U.S.-backed peace plan.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Construction workers
dug up two well-preserved mummies from the
pre-Columbian era in a town on Peru's Pacific
coast, archaeologists said Tuesday.
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- U.N. inspectors
in Iran have uncovered evidence of nuclear
experiments that Tehran did not previously
disclose, the International Atomic Energy
Agency said Tuesday in a new report warning
the country anew to come clean.
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CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) -- Famed astrophysicist
Stephen Hawking has been admitted to a hospital
again for treatment of pneumonia, the hospital
said Tuesday.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Two
audiotapes purportedly of Osama bin Laden's
top lieutenant were broadcast on Arabic
TV stations Tuesday, one taunting President
Bush and threatening more attacks on the
United States, the other criticizing France's
decision to ban Islamic headscarves in schools.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- "Seinfeld"
actor Jason Alexander helped launch a grass
roots peace initiative Tuesday with a twist:
Israelis and Palestinians are asked to vote
on terms of a future agreement via the Internet.
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GENEVA (AP) -- The European Union received
the go-ahead Tuesday to start imposing trade
sanctions against the United States in a
dispute over an 88-year-old law that U.S.
steel producers and other companies have
used to fend off low-priced imports.
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