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Protesters marched in front of the courthouse in Detroit Tuesday as the case challenging Michigan's gay marriage ban goes to trial. (Feb. 25)
Two Detroit-area nurses are challenging Michigan's ban on gay marriage during a federal trial that is expected to last two weeks.
Michigan voters approved, by a wide margin, a constitutional amendment in 2004 that recognizes marriage...
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SKorea bans imports of Chinese food products
1. Mid of Korean Food and Drug Administration (KFDA)'s Food Safety Bureau Chief Choi Sung-rak entering news conference
2. Wide of news conference room
3. Close-up of photographers
4. Wide of reporters
5. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Choi...
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The Supreme Court is debating the Obama administration's overhaul of the nation's health care system. The Ap's Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar explains that under the new law, taxpayers who don't purchase insurance will have to pay a penalty on taxes due in 2015.
HEADLINE: Obama's health care law explained
CAPTION: The Supreme Court is debating the Obama administration's overhaul of the nation's health care system. The AP's Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar explains that under the law, taxpayers who...
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Chinese Foreign Ministry on Hong Kong vote and Chinese anti-monopoly law
China on Tuesday warned against outside interference on Hong Kong's democratic reform issue and defended anti-monopoly investigations on foreign companies as fair and transparent.
"The issue of political reform is an internal matter for...
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Renewable energy experts, gov't officials meet
June 27, 2007
1. Various wide of Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) meeting
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Juan Elvira Quesada, Mexico's Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources:
"Just like we teach children how to add and...
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US Senate votes to shield gunmakers from lawsuits
1. Side view of the Senate Floor
2. UPSOUND: Senator Mel Martinez, Republican for Florida, Presiding Officer:
"The Is are 65. The Nays are 31. The bill is passed."
3. Wide of the Senate floor
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator Larry Craig,...
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WRAP Panel reports on Gulf of Mexico oil spill, reax
FILE: Gulf of Mexico waters off Louisiana coast - 06 June 2010
1. Wide of oily water washing on to shore and over a dead bird lying on sand
2. Close-up of clumps of oil floating on water's surface
3. Close-up of bird trapped in oily...
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JAPAN: KYOTO: CLIMATE CHANGE CONVENTION: US SHOWS FLEXIBILITY
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The United States, in intense negotiations for a new climate agreement, offered on Tuesday to increase cuts in gas emissions.
European delegates said the U-S team offered a two per cent deeper cut than previously...
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Report on water pollution ahead of World Water Congress
Huailai county, Hebei Province, 2 September 2006
1. Wide pan of Yongding River
2. Polluted water flowing in river
3. Villager carrying pears walking to house in Jiuzhuangwo village
4. Wide of villager walking into house
5. Various of...
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Demo against Canadian firm's plan to mine for gold and silver in Transylvania
Hundreds of protesters blocked a main road in central Bucharest on Sunday night, demonstrating against a proposed mining project in a Transylvanian village called Rosia Montana.
Thousands of people were reported to be demonstrating...
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China Health Ministry presser on bird flu virus as number of cases rises to 21
Beijing, 8 April 2013
1. Wide of news conference ++MUTE++
2. Cutaway media
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liang Wannian, director of China's H7N9 prevention and control office:
"The new episode of bird flu H7N9 is caused by a new type of...
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Tesla Motors co-founder Ian Wright wants to make trucks cleaner and greener. His firm Wrightspeed makes electric powertrains for garbage and delivery trucks. It's expanding fast as fleet owners retrofit aging trucks to meet emissions standards. (June 1)
SHOT LISTAP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYRohnert Park, California - Feb. 19, 20151. Garbage truck pulls up next to garbage containers2. Recycling container emptied into truck 3. Garbage truck fueling up at pump4. Hand holding pump to fuel...
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Trading temporarily suspended after steep spike, after markets reopen
19 September, 2008
1. Wide exterior of Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) building
2. Trading floor, bell in the foreground
3. Various of traders
4. Close of television screen
5. People on the phone
6. Cameramen
7. SOUNDBITE...
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USA: BILL CLINTON ON SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES & POLLUTION
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U-S President Bill Clinton says it's time to get tough on sport utility vehicles.
He says the popular four-wheel-drive S-U-V's are polluting America's air at record rates.
And he wants the U-S government to impose tough new...
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The White House says President Barack Obama will lay out his jobs plan in a prime television time address next week to a rare joint session of Congress.
HEADLINE:Obama to address Congress next week on jobs
CAPTION: The White House says President Barack Obama will lay out his jobs plan in a prime television time address next week to a rare joint session of Congress. (Aug. 31)
[Notes:VO:...
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WRAP Clintons, Biden and others as Obama secures official nomination
1. Close-up Delaware delegation
2. UPSOUND: (English) Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House:
"All those in favour to suspend the rules and nominate Joe Biden by acclamation please say aye."
3. Wide shot, delegates says 'aye'
4. UPSOUND:...
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Global treaty to ban 12 highly toxic chemicals
1. Stockholm harbour
2. Fountains outside conference
3. Pan of delegates at conference
4. Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson speaking
5. Delegates
6. Conference stands with Gerenpeace stall
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kevin Stairs,...
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Taco Bell declared victory Tuesday after an Alabama-based law firm dropped its class-action lawsuit that raised a beef with the meat filling served in the fast-food chain's tacos and burritos.
HEADLINE: Taco Bell beef lawsuit dropped
CAPTION: Taco Bell declared victory Tuesday after an Alabama-based law firm dropped its class-action lawsuit that raised a beef with the meat filling served in the fast-food chain's tacos and...
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The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies. The companies are planning to search for oil and gas in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern coast of Alaska.
HEADLINE: Oil companies protected if they harm polar bears
CAPTION: The Fish and Wildlife Service issued regulations this week providing legal protection to seven oil companies. The companies are planning to search for oil and gas in...
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US Attorney Gen comments on Padilla and dirty bomb
1. Exterior government building
2. Security
3. US Attorney General John Ashcroft arriving and greeting Swiss Justice Minister Ruth Metzler
4. Press
5. Ashcroft and Metzler approaching podium
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Ashcroft, US...
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Human rights groups urge United Nations to limit arms trading
1. Wide of partially constructed Z-10 helicopter model with flat-pack next to it, UK parliament houses in the background
2. Mid of flat-pack with writing on it reading:" Tail Section, Made in USA"
3. Crate on the grass with the Canadian...
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Hydrogen-powered car completes cross-country journey
1. Arrival shot of Daimler Chrysler's fuel cell-powered vehicle, the "Necar 5"
2. SOUNDBITE: (German) Ferdinand Panik, Head of Daimler Chrsyler's Fuel Cell Project:
"It's a... fuel cell car has been... it is the first fuel cell car...
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Michigan's two-year-old law allowing the medical use of marijuana has people wanting to learn how to grow the crop. Enter the self-described medical marijuana trade school, educating growers on the finer points of weed.
HEADLINE: First Person: Learning the marijuana trade
CAPTION: Michigan's two-year-old law allowing the medical use of marijuana has people wanting to learn how to grow the crop. Enter the self-described medical marijuana trade school,...
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PHILIPPINES: MANILA: PROTESTS AGAINST PLAN TO DEREGULATE OIL INDUSTRY
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Critics of a plan to deregulate the Philippines' oil industry marched to the presidential palace Wednesday to ask President Fidel Ramos to scuttle the proposal.
The government's 20-year control of the oil industry is to end...