A northwest Iowa judge who approved a controversial divorce of two Sioux City lesbians will keep his job despite efforts by conservatives to unseat him in Tuesday's election.
Charlie A. Dooley won a historic victory as St. Louis County executive Tuesday, becoming the first African-American candidate ever to be elected to a county-wide office.
California's policy of temporarily segregating incoming and transferred prison inmates by race appeared doomed before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. During an hour of oral argument in the case of Johnson v. California, most justices appeared skeptical of the state's argument that the 25-year-old policy was needed to cope with gang-related violence in California prisons.
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