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The NAACP recently took what was for some in the organization a controversial step, when it endorsed same-sex marriage. That move has now led some local officers around the country to resign — including the group's most outspoken critic of gay marriage.

Tiny XL Recordings, the home of Adele, Vampire Weekend, the XX and just a few more, has become among the most relevant record labels in the world while releasing just a few albums each year.

The president challenged Congress to pass a jobs-creation bill and do more to stimulate the economy. In his remarks at the White House, he also discussed the drag Europe's financial woes are having on the U.S.

The losses were mostly because of the housing crisis, but Americans also saw drops in financial and business assets.

With the national convention just three months away, state Democrats are reeling from a series of setbacks, including passage of a gay marriage ban and a sex scandal within the organization. But party leaders say they're committed to making the convention a success and keeping the state "blue" in November.

Solar Impulse took off from Switzerland and will lumber its way to Morocco.

The new agreement means the U.S. Olympic Committee will see new revenues cut sharply.

The Pentagon repudiated the smear campaign saying they are "intolerable."

Charges could be filed in the case of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who disappeared from his New York neighborhood in 1979. Pedro Hernandez, who was a bodega clerk when Patz disappeared, has been arrested. Audie Cornish talks to Bob Hennelly of member station WNYC.

Moscow's recent deals with foreign oil companies are designed to maintain Russia as the world's No. 1 oil producer. The biggest deal, with Exxon Mobil, would put billions of dollars toward exploiting vast oil and gas reserves in Russia's Arctic waters.