Interracial marriages hit record numbers in the U S
A Pew study shows 4.8 million Americans or 8 percent of marriages are interracial up from 3.2 percent in 1980. Asians and Hispanics most often marry across races with blacks showing the largest rise since 2008. Public acceptance has grown with 83 percent approving blacks dating whites and 63 percent approving a family marriage outside race.
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U.S
Pew Research Center
America
Daniel Lichter
Cornell University
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New Mexico
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Supreme Court
Alabama
Census Bureau
Jonathan Brent
Brent
Charlottesville
Xi Jinping concludes U.S. visit with restrained style signal
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping completes a two day Washington trip stressing no policy shifts but a warmer tone as he eyes the presidency in 2013. He holds talks with Obama and receives a 19 gun salute at the Pentagon before a stop in Muscatine Iowa where he revisits ties from a 1985 stay and meets locals.
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China
Xi Jinping
Communist Party
Hu Jintao
United States
Asia-Pacific
Jeff Bader
East Asia
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Bader
Pentagon
Muscatine
Iowa
Terry Branstad
Eleanor Dvorchak
Georgia teen sues over strip search of student in class
A seventh grade student at Eddie White Academy sues Clayton County schools and a sheriff's deputy for a strip search conducted in front of classmates on February 8 2011 claiming humiliation emotional distress and lasting taunts The suit seeks punitive and compensatory damages and cites Supreme Court Fourth Amendment rulings against school strip searches.
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Georgia
Superman
Clayton County
D.H
Eddie White Academy
Tyrus McDowell
Ricky Redding
Gerry Weber
U.S. Supreme Court
Weber
Federal
Redding
McDowell
Assad announces referendum on new Syrian constitution
President Bashar Assad ordered a late month referendum on a drafted constitution promising political pluralism and term limits, as Syria's military presses sieges on rebel areas including Homs. Opposition leaders say the vote stalls demands for Assad's departure amid escalating violence.
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Syria
Assad
Khalaf Dahowd
National Coordination Body For Democratic Change In
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Homs
Harasta
Damascus
Kansans and New Yorkers Clash Over Livestock Lab Plan
The Obama administration halted a proposed 650 million dollar lab to study contagious animal diseases, pitting Kansas hopefuls for growth against New Yorkers defending about 200 Plum Island jobs. Homeland Security will reassess the facility near Kansas State University, with 8 million earmarked for Kansas research if Congress funds it.
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Long Island
Adrienne Esposito
Citizens Campaign For the Environment
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U.S. Department of Homeland
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Esposito
Plum Island Laboratory
New York City
Janet Napolitano
House Appropriations
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