The California SpaceX company has seen its unmanned Dragon cargo ship attach successfully to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time.
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VIDEO: Astronauts praise Dragon craft
Petty Officer 1st Class Ryan J. Wilson of California was the 1,974th U.S. death and the 3,000th overall coalition death, according to CNN's count.
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U.S. sailor is 3,000th Afghan war death
On May 19, 1992, as the presidential campaign season was heating up, Vice President Dan Quayle delivered a family-values speech that came to define him nearly as much as his spelling talents. Speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California, he chided Murphy Brown — the fictional 40-something, divorced news anchor played by Candice Bergen on a CBS sitcom — for her decision to have a child outside of marriage. Read full article > >
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20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried moms
The California SpaceX company has seen its unmanned Dragon cargo ship attach successfully to the International Space Station (ISS).
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VIDEO: Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship
Internet giant Google did not infringe patents belonging to software developer Oracle, a court in California has ruled.
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Jury backs Google in Oracle fight
Authorities in Santa Monica, California, fatally shot a mountain lion Tuesday, acting on public safety concerns after it tried to escape from an office building courtyard in the city.
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Mountain lion shot at office building
A 21-year-old man was arrested in connection with the two-month-old disappearance of a California teen, authorities said.
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Arrest made in missing Calif. teen case
California’s SpaceX has launched on a mission to re-supply the space station – the first cargo delivery to the orbiting outpost by a private company.
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VIDEO: SpaceX Falcon rocket launches
Maryland’s highest court decided Friday that even though same-sex couples aren’t yet able to marry in the state, they do have the right to divorce. The Court of Appeals announced its decision in the case of Jessica Port and Virginia Anne Cowan , two women in their 20s who were married in California in 2008 and filed for divorce in Prince George’s County two years later. A circuit court judge refused to grant the divorce, writing that it would be “contrary to the public policy of Maryland.” Read full article > >
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Maryland court allows same-sex divorce
The Obama administration granted a visa this week to the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro but rejected visas for nearly a dozen other Cubans to attend an academic conference in California, angering both conservative Cuban American leaders and American scholars seeking to improve U.S.-Cuban academic ties. Read full article > >
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A California-based private company hopes to usher in a new era in space travel with the successful launch of its rocket and unmanned capsule later this month.
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VIDEO: Lift-off for private space travel?
Click to watch video Debate continues over the methodology behind foie gras – a creamy delicacy created by deliberately overfeeding ducks or geese to enlarge their livers. A ban on food products that are made as a result of force-feeding animals goes into effect in California on July 1, but some chefs are protesting. Eatocracy's Sarah LeTrent spoke with CNNI's Pauline Chiou about the controversy surrounding the practice. Previously – Foie gras laws causing a flap with California chefs
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Foie gras feeding method too much for diners to swallow?
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed slashing state workers’ pay and spending on social programs and prisons, calling the moves “difficult — but necessary.”
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Brown Proposes $8.3 Billion in Cuts for California
Police track missing agent in California.
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Search on for Rogue FBI Agent
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