New York Passes Gay Marriage: This Is the Tipping Point

The marriage equality fight was a critical test of mainstreaming a cutting-edge issue. John Avlon on how America has finally come to embrace the era's defining civil rights issue. June 25, 2011 7:50 AM EDT If you can make it here, you’ll make it anywhere. Celebrations erupted in the streets of New York after the Empire State became the sixth and largest state in the nation to legalize same sex marriage after weeks of gridlock and tense debate. There...

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Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean Lead CMT Awards Buzz, The Band Perry Also Big

Country music awards telecasts always represent an opportunity for veteran and emerging country acts to become the talk of the entertainment world for a day or two, and this year’s Country Music Television Awards represented no exception. They may not carry the prestige of other awards in the genre, but as a chance to highlight the year in country music videos and feature standout performances, they still get acts on the radar. Leading the post-show buzz is Luke Bryan, who performed “Country Girl (Shake it for Me)” on the show. As of 2AM Thursday, the country act was still the top-searched...

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Solar flare? Yes, but tonight's northern lights have a more spectacular cause.

Though widely described as a 'solar flare,' the star of Tuesday's solar storm was a much rarer – and much larger – coronal mass ejection, which is distorting Earth's magnetic field and will produce the northern lights (and southern lights) tonight. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of the sun belching out massive quantities of energy and matter on Tuesday, June 7. Though some confuse this with a solar flare, this coronal mass ejection was much larger – and much, much more massive...

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Woman Sues Dunkin' Donuts For Putting Sugar In Her Coffee

It seems like every other day someone sues a fast food chain after being scalded by too-hot coffee. But a woman in Philadelphia is trying to break that trend by suing Dunkin' Donuts for brewing up some java that too sweet. The plaintiff claims that on June 15, 2009 (yes, nearly two full years ago), she ordered a coffee at Dunkin' Donuts and asked for artificial sweetener. She alleges that she received a cup of joe with actual sugar instead and suffered dire consequences. From the Philadelphia...

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