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Gay and lesbian couples can be denied financial benefits when their marriages aren't recognized

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The divisive issue of same-sex marriage was expected to be discussed privately by the Supreme Court Monday, and the justices could soon announce if they will hear a constitutional challenge to a federal law denying financial benefits to gay and lesbian couples.


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Many are renewals of tax breaks that already existed

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama often touts his 18 small business tax cuts, but there's some confusion as to what they really are.


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Alderman has pressed restaurant to stop anti-gay donations and enact workplace protections

(CNN) -- A Chicago alderman says Chick-fil-A's president is publicly contradicting what company executives personally assured him for months -- that the fast-food chain is changing its stance on gay marriage -- and he asked the company Sunday to clarify.


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New report says conservative groups to train and deploy up to one million people to police polls

A swarm of right-wing loyalists with intimidation on their minds can be expected to descend on polling places in minority neighborhoods this November, two public interest groups warned government officials Monday.


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New evidence substantiates endless revelations and investigations of U.S. treatment of detainees

For many years, Bush administration officials have said that the CIA waterboarded only three terror suspects. Despite nearly endless revelations and investigations about the U.S.'s treatment of detainees, there has never been evidence contradicting those claims. But that changed earlier this month.


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Americans 75-plus, especially Black and Latino, were disproportionately hurt by mortgage crisis

SAN FRANCISCO -- Aside from being former servicemen, both men also share one other thing: they are about to lose the homes they owned, each for more than four decades, to foreclosure.


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Worst yet to come as privileged and associates in Congress prepare to initiate austerity in 2013

U.S. Census data released Wednesday revealed troubling poverty figures, with some 46 million Americans -- including one in every five children -- living below the poverty line.


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Provision requires police to ask for someone's documents if they suspect person is in U.S. illegally

PHOENIX, Ariz.--As immigrant women and immigration advocates prepare for the "show me your papers" or "papers, please" provision of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 to take effect—as early as this week-- they shared their stories of a struggle that has evolved from fear to resistance in a panel here held last week by New America Media (NAM).


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In 2010, Congress passed The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act to bring healthy food to schools

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Standing in front of a classroom with invited media guests, Diane Newbold asks her third-grade class: "Do you know what this is?" She is holding up a pineapple.


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Nationwide, the unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in August

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The unemployment rate rose in 26 states last month, seven of which are key battleground states, critical in the presidential election.


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