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At an appearance in South Florida on Monday, state Attorney General Bill McCollum strongly defended his publicly financed television campaign that critics charge are personal campaign ads.

Was the vote ever in any doubt after a unanimous vote to pass this bill to the Senate was made by the Senate Judiciary Committee? In the end, the vote was 26-4. Marriage equality is something that we have had to struggle with in this state for ten years. The State Assembly in 2000 compromised with civil unions, but it was just that, a compromise.

The Empire State Pride Agenda has released the following statement: Sen. Charles Schumer today announced his support for marriage equality for same sex couples and for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Mike Cox say Michigan has been named lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against American International Group Inc. (AIG). The State of Michigan Retirement Systems invested in AIG on behalf of mo...

£1,350 Tata Nano gears up to revolutionise travel for millionsIndia's Tata group has announced that the world's cheapest car, the Nano, will roll out of West Bengal state with a price tag of just 100,000 rupees - £1,350 - and will be exported to richer nations, beginning with Europe, in two years.Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Motors, said the car was originally designed to bring motoring to India's masses, but he was taken aback by the considerable interest in the west.He said: 'Initially we did not plan for this product to be marketed anywhere else but India or developing countries . I felt that the niche did not exist in the west. But now the present economic scene makes it somewhat more relevant in price.'The basic model has few frills, not even air-conditioning to deal with intense Indian summers. But Tata executives are convinced that with India's improving road network and a rising middle class the company could sell a million Nanos a year.The emergence of the Nano has caused conc

Brussels - The European Union and Ukraine on Monday were set to approve a programme of political reforms which should encourage European players to invest in physical repairs to the former-Soviet state's giant gas network. Ukraine's gas transit syst...

Mississippi's tax on cigarettes, at 18 cents a pack the nation's third-lowest, has not been raised since 1985.

March 23, 2009 The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) will switch R65 billion of government pension funds to support black-owned money managers and boost returns. The state-owned pension manager w...

New Delhi - The lone gunman captured during the Mumbai terrorist attacks told an Indian court Monday that he was from Pakistan and sought legal assistance from state authorities, news reports said. In February, police formally filed charges against A...

Sana'a, Yemen - Yemen's state security court has issued a death sentence in the case of a Yemeni man accused of spying for Israel. Two other men received jail sentences of three and five years in the same case. Presiding judge Mouhssien Alwan said th...