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FALLING WATERS, W.Va. (AP) — Police say whiteout conditions along Interstate 81 in West Virginia led to two pileups this morning involving 44 cars. State police say two people were killed and seven others were flown by helicopter to hospitals. The northbound lanes of the heavily traveled interstate remain closed Wednesday, but the south lanes have reopened.
DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's governor says his state won't recognize more than 300 same-sex marriages performed last weekend. The marriages were performed Saturday before a federal appeals court suspended a decision that overturned the state's ban on gay marriage. Gov. Rick Snyder says the marriages were legal at the time but the ban is back in effect while the appeals court considers the matter.
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal jury in New York has found Osama bin Laden's son-in-law guity of conspiring to kill Americans for his role as a spokesman for al-Qaida. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (SOO'-lay-mahn AH'-boo GAYTH) was the voice of fiery al-Qaida propaganda videotapes after the Sept. 11 attacks. He could face life in prison when he is sentenced in September.
BRUSSELS (AP) — President Barack Obama says the ideal that individuals have the right to determine their own destiny is being tested in Europe. In a speech in Brussels, Obama says the idea that all men and women are created equal is being threatened by a view of power that sees ordinary men and women as too small-minded to govern their own affairs. Obama didn't say so directly but he was referring to Russia's recent annexation of Crimea.
BERLIN (AP) — Air France now says the reason Russia closed its airspace today, forcing a plane to detour to Germany, was a space launch. The airline said earlier that the airspace closure was due to a military exercise. A Soyuz spacecraft carrying American astronaut Steve Swanson and two Russians blasted off today from Russia's launch facility in Kazakhstan, headed for the International Space Station.
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