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AP - The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi is suing to force a school district to host a prom it canceled after a lesbian student asked to bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.

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Lesbian teen sues Miss. school over prom flap
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Nine members of a Russian white supremacist group are jailed for up to 22 years in connection with the killing of an African man.

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Russians jailed over race murder

Reuters - Unprecedented discounts after a series of damaging recalls boosted Toyota Motor Corp’s U.S. sales in early March, as U.S. regulators weighed new auto safety measures

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Toyota discounts boost sales, U.S. mulls "black box"
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AP - A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments on Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.

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Court upholds ‘under God’ in Pledge of Allegiance
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Sebastian Pinera is sworn in as president of quake-hit Chile, as a 6.9-magnitude aftershock strikes the centre of the country.

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Pinera sworn in as new quake hits

Reuters - The United States boosted its investigation of tax and other financial crimes by about 10 percent last year, tax authorities reported on Thursday, amid an increased push to pursue wealthy tax cheats.

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U.S. boosted financial, tax crime probes in 2009
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First results from Iraq’s election suggest a tight contest may be developing between PM Nouri Maliki and main rival Iyad Allawi.

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Iraq results point to tight race

Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report.

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Web censure ‘curbs human rights’

The mechanism by which thalidomide causes malformed limbs is revealed by scientists.

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Thalidomide effect mystery solved

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