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WASHINGTON (AP) — The president can't make a recess appointment -- if Congress isn't actually in recess. The Supreme Court is ruling in favor of Senate Republicans in a clash with President Barack Obama over his appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012. The justices unanimously found that the appointments -- without Senate confirmation -- were illegal. Obama had invoked his power to make temporary appointments when the Senate is in recess -- but the court found that there wasn't actually a formal recess at the time.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says there are less intrusive ways of dealing with problems outside abortion clinics than setting up a 35-foot zone in which no protesters are allowed. In a unanimous ruling, the justices said the buffer zone violates the First Amendment rights of protesters.
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado's Boulder County is issuing more same-sex marriage licenses after a federal appeals court ruled against Utah's gay marriage ban. The state attorney general says the Boulder licenses aren't valid both because the ruling has been placed on hold and because a Colorado state ban remains in place. The county clerk says she'll issue licenses unless a court tells her otherwise.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Education Department official is telling Congress that some colleges and universities are continuing to fail students by inadequately responding to campus sexual assault. Catherine Lhamon (LAY'-muhn) is the department's assistant secretary for civil rights. She says her office has investigated more than a hundred such cases since 2009. In those cases, she says schools have done things like retaliating against students for filing a sexual assault complaint, delaying investigations and allowing perpetrators to remain in class.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Today's World Cup soccer game in Brazil between the United States and Germany is one of those rare games in which both teams would be happy with a draw -- because they'd both advance to the next round. But the Americans need a win in order to avoid Belgium in the next round. And Germany badly wants to beat its former coach and star player, Jurgen Klinsmann, who's now in charge of the U.S. team.
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