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Nevada: Allow Same-Sex Marriage (Constitutional Amendment)

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Kentucky: Rights for Crime Victims (Known as Marsy's Law)

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Rhode Island: Change State Name (Remove Providence Plantations)

Official: Journalist killed in bomb blast in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb attached to the vehicle of a radio journalist in southern Afghanistan exploded early Thursday, killing him, a provincial official said.

UK economy saw bounceback in summer but remains smaller

LONDON (AP) — The British economy remained nearly 10% smaller at the end of the third quarter of the year despite posting a record summer bounceback when many of the restrictions associated with the spring lockdown…

Dad: Teen, found dead in Malaysia, couldn't survive jungle

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The father of a French-Irish teenager who was found dead last year near a Malaysian jungle resort after vanishing on a holiday said Thursday that his daughter would not have had the st…

Military wary that shakeup could upend its apolitical nature

WASHINGTON (AP) — The words spoken by America's top military officer carried a familiar ring, but in the midst of a chaotic week at the Pentagon, they were particularly poignant.

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World shares slip on doubts over COVID vaccines, outbreaks

World stocks fell back on Thursday after a comeback by big technology shares that have thrived during the pandemic.

DeChambeau has grand plan to cut Masters course down to size

Bryson DeChambeau is golf’s latest litmus test, hammering drives that sound and soar like mortar fire and cut corners in ways golf-course designers and his fellow pros never dreamed.

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Montana: Revise Conceal Carry Laws (End local govt authority)

Vatican's McCarrick report forces debate on power and abuse

ROME (AP) — The Vatican’s report into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has raised uncomfortable questions the Holy See will have to confront going forward, chief among them what it’s going to do about current and fut…

Shots fired at Saudi embassy in The Hague; no injuries

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Saudi Arabian embassy in The Hague was sprayed with gunfire early Thursday, leaving bullet holes across the facade and in several windows. Police said nobody was injured in the sho…

Italian hospitals face breaking point in fall virus surge

MILAN (AP) — Dr. Luca Cabrini was certain his hospital in the heart of Lombardy‘s lake district would reach its breaking point caring for 300 COVID-19 patients. So far, virus patients fill 500 beds and counting.