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Unlike Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and other conservative states in the South, Mississippi is well on its way to having an insurance exchange ready for operation by the 2014 deadline laid out by the health overhaul law.

Three-week-old Til, a cute little bunny with no ears, was being introduced to the news media at a German zoo when things went bad.

Historian Andrew Preston says questions in an undergraduate class he was teaching at the start of the 2003 invasion of Iraq spurred the research for his new book, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith. "Once I started looking for religion [in U.S. foreign policy], it was everywhere," he says.

Millions clicked last spring to watch as a webcam in Iowa showed a pair of bald eagles, their three eggs and as the eaglets that eventually hatched. The parents are back again and three more eggs are in the nest.

The organization is hoping public pressure could sway states considering the laws.

Once part of Syria, southeastern Turkey's Hatay province is home to a sizable population of Alawites, who have ties to the minority sect across the border, including Syria's ruling Assad family. These complex relationships of history and family are now prompting rising sectarian tensions in Turkey.

Mitt Romney and the superPAC supporting him spent more than 15 times as much as Rick Santorum and the superPAC backing him on television ads in Alabama and Mississippi, according to an analysis. Santorum won both states on Tuesday, while Romney finished third in both races.

Jordan has been critical of Syria's leadership and has welcomed those fleeing the fighting. But Jordan's limited resources were already under strain from hosting refugees from Iraq and other conflicts.

Lawmakers in at least six states — all women and all Democrats — have proposed bills or amendments in the last few weeks that aim to regulate a man's access to reproductive health care. The proposals are a response to legislation that would limit women's access to those services.

Thirty-five years ago, in March of 1977, in the heart of downtown, the Tulsa Performing Arts Center first opened its doors --- and Ella Fitzgerald, backed…