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Supreme Court blocks environmental initiative, children & same-sex marriage, Grateful Dead
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Jun 29, 2015
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Supreme Court blocks environmental initiative, children & same-sex marriage, Grateful Dead

The Supreme Court sides with states over cost of regulating emissions, how children helped shape attitudes toward same-sex unions, and the Grateful Dead together, again.

FILE - In this July 1, 2013, file photo,  smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. State officials planned a public meeting Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Colstrip on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to cut greenhouse emissions. The town is home to one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the West,  a 2,100-megawatt facility that churns out more greenhouse gases than any other source in Montana. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
FILE - In this July 1, 2013, file photo, smoke rises from the Colstrip Steam Electric Station, a coal burning power plant in in Colstrip, Mont. State officials planned a public meeting Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Colstrip on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to cut greenhouse emissions. The town is home to one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the West, a 2,100-megawatt facility that churns out more greenhouse gases than any other source in Montana. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
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The Supreme Court sides with states over cost of regulating emissions, how children helped shape attitudes toward same-sex unions, and the Grateful Dead together, again. 

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In a new ruling, the Supreme Court sided with major power companies and 20 states blocking tough EPA rules on power plant emissions.
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What role did children play in the arguments for and against legalizing same-sex marriage?
In reporting on the Supreme Court's historic decision on gay marriage, the media has taken a mostly positive view. Has it been striking the right tone?
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Ted 2, Spy, Entourage. All R-rated comedies that failed to meet expectations at the box office this summer. Is it too early to write an obit for raunch?
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This weekend, the Grateful Dead played their first performance together in 20 years and Take Two contributor Shirley Halperin joins us to talk about what it was like.
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As the third mission to the space station to be lost in recent months, the failure raises questions about the future of commercial spaceflight.
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The role of Miss Trunchbull on stage is often played by a man, as it is in its current iteration at the Ahmanson Theater, by actor Bryce Ryness.