The attack on the governor’s compound in Parwan Province involved six bombers.

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20 Reported Killed in Afghan Suicide Attack

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) signed off on legislation Tuesday that extends in-state tuition breaks to illegal immigrants, setting up a showdown with opponents who have already started gathering petition signatures to try to force a referendum on the law. Supporters, including dozens of religious leaders, immigrant advocates, Democratic lawmakers and students, crowded into the governor’s reception room to pose for photos and celebrate during the bill signing. “We’ve got guts,” said Del. Ana Sol Gutierrez (D-Montgomery), a longtime advocate for the bill. “We were willing to go against the tide and stand up for something that is the right thing to do.” Read full article > >

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O’Malley signs immigrant tuition bill into law in Maryland

With less than one week remaining in Maryland’s General Assembly session, Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) has won support from a key House lawmaker in his effort to spur the development of one of the nation’s first offshore wind farms. Del. Dereck Davis (D-Prince George’s), who chairs the House Economic Matters Committee, said Tuesday that he is prepared to vote for the governor’s offshore wind legislation and that there could be a committee vote on the bill as soon as Wednesday.

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O’Malley wind bill wins key supporter, but vote still uncertain

KABUL — On the second day of last week’s deadly riots in Kandahar, around the same time that a gas canister exploded in a police booth set ablaze by protesters outside the governor’s office, Afghan President Hamid Karzai picked up the phone and called the mullah.

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Karzai’s role in protests over Koran burning again reveals divide with U.S.

Michigan’s new Emergency Manager Law is already forcing major concessions from unions. The law gives the governor the power to declare a city insolvent and appoint an emergency manager with virtually unlimited power to reorganize every aspect of city business, including dissolving the city entirely. The emergency manager even has the power to terminate collective bargaining agreements. read more

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Hostile Takeover Threat Spurs Concessions from Michigan Unions

Maryland teachers and public employees staged a rally at the state capitol protesting the governor’s proposals for the state budget.

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Md. teachers, state employees protest budget cuts, pension changes

Just 14 months after an attempt to legalize same-sex marriage failed in the State Senate, the governor said he would introduce a bill before June.

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Cuomo Says He’ll Push for Vote to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

A look at three states where political change in the governor’s mansion — including one that will go from Republican hands to Democratic — may change how Americans live.

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Power Shift Toward G.O.P. Resonates in 3 States

Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid will not receive a posthumous pardon for killing a county sheriff in 1878, the governor of the US state of New Mexico says.

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Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid fails to win pardon

A state ethics commission said the governor knew he had broken the law and lied to cover it up.

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Paterson Fined $62,125 Over World Series Tickets

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will pardon a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy, the governor of Punjab state told CNN Tuesday.

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The sacrifice of British troops in Afghanistan is not in vain, the governor of Helmand province says during a five-day visit to the UK.

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Deaths in Helmand ‘not in vain’

Democrat Jerry Brown will return to the governor’s office in California, according to Tuesday night’s exit polls, after winning an hard-fought race against Republican Meg Whitman. Whitman poured a tremendous amount of her own money into what was the…

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Brown, Boxer Win in California

A second New Zealand broadcaster is accused of racism – this time for calling the governor general “a fat Indian”.

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NZ apology for ‘fat Indian’ slur

A bombing outside the office of the governor of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar kills one person.

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Blast kills Afghan district chief