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Buoyed by federal court rulings, same-sex couples in the Deep South are taking on traditional marriage laws in the very states where those laws enjoy overwhelming public support.

Canada is still tops for Americans, Gallup says. But the polling company says attitudes toward other countries have shifted — particularly for North Korea and Russia.

Wal-Mart sales and income slumped in the past year. The retail giant says its customers are being hurt by cuts in government benefits, higher taxes and rising health care costs.

The agency responds to a January incident in which a Utah elementary school served students food — and threw it away when their accounts were found to have a negative balance.

The Romanian entry in the foreign-film Oscar category turns on a nouveau-riche mother who maneuvers ruthlessly to shield her no-account son from charges he kills a teen in a car crash.

Bob Mondello reviews Omar and Bethlehem, two intriguingly similar films about the complicated relationships between Israeli secret service agents and their Palestinian informants.