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THESE DAYS

Two male air force privates will wed this summer, taking Spain's new gay marriage law to the ranks of the military for what is believed to be the first time.

Nursing mom Rebecca Cook organized a protest over the weekend outside of a Victoria's Secret in Racine, Wisconsin, because they wouldn't allow her the use of a dressing room to breast-feed her baby.

The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday.

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"My knees and back hurt and my head ain't much good either. I can remember though that I am now 80 years old so I sit down to make it feel better."

-- Ailing bluesman B.B. King, to a sold-out crowd at his final appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival