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rally other lawmakers to their cause.
• Their secret: Burgers, beer and a culture of working toward public policy answers that Americans seem to want in Washington -- even when there's no solution in sight.
• The pair has a common goal for an overhaul they believe is long overdue. And tax policy, to them, is exciting for all that is wrong and could be improved about it.
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• VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Cory Monteith, the handsome young actor who shot to fame in the hit TV series "Glee" but was beset by addiction struggles so fierce that he once said he was lucky to be alive, was found dead in a hotel room, police said. He was 31.
• Monteith, who played the character Finn Hudson on the Fox TV series about a high school glee club, was found dead in his room on the 21st floor of the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel on Vancouver's waterfront at about noon Saturday, according to police.
• Deputy Police Chief Doug Lepard said there was no indication of foul play. Monteith's body was found by hotel staff after he missed his check-out time, Lepard said.
• "We do not have a great deal of information as to cause of death," Coroner Lisa Lapointe said.
• Lepard said Monteith had been out with people earlier and that those people are being interviewed.
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• SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The six female jurors who found George Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last year reached their verdict on Saturday after two days of deliberations.
• During almost three weeks of testimony, they listened to 56 witnesses -- 38 for the prosecution and 18 for the defense. A number of items have been the source of conflicting testimony, and jurors will have to sort out those contradictions in the deliberation room.
• Zimmerman pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. He says he fatally shot Martin in a scuffle at the townhome complex where Zimmerman was a neighbor

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