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What places that legalized pot need to know 11/05/2014 07:02pm • KRISTEN WYATT Associated Press DENVER (AP) -- Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., voted to legalize recreational marijuana Tuesday. The drug is already legal for people 21 and older in Colorado and Washington, thanks to ballot measures voted on in 2012.It was a whole new frontier for those states, Religion news in brief 11/05/2014 01:44pm • The Associated Press Pakistan police: Muslim mob kills Christian coupleISLAMABAD (AP) -- Police in Pakistan say a Muslim mob has beaten a Christian couple to death and burned their bodies in a brick kiln for allegedly desecrating the Quran.Other sources say the young Christians were thrown alive in Ballot measures: Oregon, DC voters OK use of pot 11/05/2014 07:00am • For complete election coverage, visit WTOP's Live Blog. DAVID CRARY Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Voters in Oregon and the District of Columbia legalized the use of recreational pot, elating marijuana activists who hope to extend their winning streak across the country.Oregon will joi Appeals court takes on NSA surveillance case 11/04/2014 09:10pm • PETE YOST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three federal appeals court judges struggled Tuesday over whether the National Security Agency's phone data surveillance program is an intelligence-gathering tool that makes the nation safer or an intrusive threat that endangers privacy.The judges -- all Jury picked in Detroit trial of Chicago activist 11/04/2014 07:04pm • ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- Dozens of people traveled 300 miles from Chicago on Tuesday to support an Arab activist who is on trial for failing to tell U.S. immigration officials that she was convicted of two bombings in Israel decades ago.A jury was picked in federal court in Detroit, Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 11/04/2014 05:40pm • The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___Oct. 24The Daily News, Bowling Green, Kentucky, on U.S. benefiting for Nazis being an outrage:Those who have committed war crimes or who are suspected of committing them must answer for them.War cr Indonesian women's killings shock Hong Kong 11/04/2014 08:08am • JACK CHANG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) -- Inside the upscale, metallic grey apartment tower rising from the heart of Hong Kong, police uncovered an unspeakable crime that has jolted this city proud of its reputation for safety and order.The bodies of two slain Indonesian women were found, one st Bangladesh court upholds death for Islamist leader 11/03/2014 03:18am • JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence given to a senior Islamist leader convicted by a special tribunal last year for his role in mass killings and other atrocities during the country's 1971 independence war against Paki Bangladesh sentences another top Islamist to death 11/02/2014 09:18am • JULHAS ALAM Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced to death a senior leader of the country's largest Islamist party on Sunday, the second death sentence in a week for mass killings during the nation's 1971 independence war against Pakistan.After the jud Salvador detective won't let the dead lie silent 11/02/2014 06:46am • ALBERTO ARCE Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- A hundred yards below a private cemetery where generals have gathered for a military funeral, ghostly figures in white protective suits are digging up a clandestine grave next to a fetid river.It is painstaking labor in a land littered Military service members complain about sex survey 11/01/2014 07:24am • LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shocked and offended by explicit questions, some in the U.S. military are complaining about a sexual-assault survey that hundreds of thousands have been asked to complete.The survey is conducted every two years. But this year's version, developed AP EXCLUSIVE: Military sex survey draws complaints 11/01/2014 04:16am • LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shocked and offended by explicit questions, some U.S. servicemen and women are complaining about a new sexual-assault survey that hundreds of thousands have been asked to complete.The survey is conducted every two years. But this year's version, d Marine's lawyers seek new judge in war crime case 10/31/2014 06:00pm • ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- Attorneys for a Marine sergeant being retried on a murder charge in a major Iraq war crime case have asked a judge to remove himself, saying he's incapable of being impartial and objective.The judge, Navy Capt. Andrew Henderson, rejected Bennett sentenced after murder conviction 10/31/2014 05:31pm • Upper Marlboro, Md. - Eighteen-year-old honor student Marckel Ross was headed to school early two years ago, books in hand, when he was shot and killed during a robbery attempt. At first, police had no suspect and no motive. But after what judge Nicholas E. Rattal called A-plus police work, Tr Justice Dept watchdog faults agency grenade probe 10/31/2014 04:20am • ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal agents and prosecutors in Arizona made multiple errors in their investigation of a U.S. citizen who was suspected of smuggling grenade components to Mexico, including failing to arrest him when there was more than enough evidence to do so, the