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WASHINGTON – With a tough campaign season ahead and division among Republican lawmakers over strategy, many are questioning whether aconstitutional amendment (search)defining marriage has a chance of passing the U.S. Congress this legislative session. Despite polls showing a majority of Americans opposegranting legal rights to same-sex unions andgay marriages (search), …

Do smokers who reduce, but don’t quit smoking, reduce their risk of smoking-related disease? Reminiscent of past allegations of tobacco industry lying, the anti-tobacco industry apparently doesn’t want smokers to know the truth. The situation recalls George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm” in which the leaders of the animal revolt against …

War and the media: That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” Millions of Americans have reacted to this video taken in Fallujah (search) where a young Marine shot a wounded insurgent inside a mosque. That Marine is now under investigation. But he is innocent, and that will …