Abbas asks US to step into settlement dispute (AP)

AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he has asked the U.S. to settle a dispute with Israel over settlement expansion that is threatening to derail Mideast peace talks.

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Israel, Palestinians agree to 2nd round of talks (AP)

AP - Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Thursday to keep talking and produce a framework for a permanent peace deal, modest achievements reached amid deep skepticism about success at their first such session in two years.

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Federal contractor charged with leaking secrets (AP)

AP - The Obama administration on Friday accused an analyst who worked at the State Department of leaking top secret information about North Korea to a reporter.

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Brewer condemns report to UN mentioning Ariz. law (AP)

AP - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner.

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Woman hits Senate Armed Services chairman with pie (AP)

AP - A woman identified as an anti-war protester hit U.S. Sen.

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Court halts Calif. gay marriages pending appeal (AP)

AP - A federal appeals court put same-sex weddings in California on hold indefinitely Monday while it considers the constitutionality of the state’s gay marriage ban.

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AP IMPACT: Border Patrol sees spike in suicides (AP)

AP - After a bad day on the job as a Border Patrol agent, Eddie DeLaCruz went home and began discussing with his wife how to celebrate her upcoming birthday. Then he casually pressed his government-issued handgun under his chin and pulled the trigger.

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Brown, couples urge speedy return to gay marriages (AP)

AP - Attorney General Jerry Brown and lawyers for two couples who successfully sued to strike down California’s same-sex marriage ban urged a federal appeals court late Friday to waste no time in allowing gay marriages to resume in the state.

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Obama backs mosque near ground zero (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country’s founding principles demanded no less.

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Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens dies in plane crash (AP)

AP - An amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens crashed into a remote mountainside during a fishing trip, killing the state’s most beloved political figure and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope overnight.

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