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order while it is appealed, meaning that gay couples in Virginia will still not be able to marry until the case is ultimately resolved. Both sides believe the case won't be settled until the Supreme Court decides to hear it or one like it.
• . COMCAST STRIKES DEAL TO BUY TIME WARNER CABLE
• Comcast will buy Time Warner Cable for about $45.2 billion in a deal signed Thursday that combines the nation's top two cable TV companies and would create a dominant force in both creating and delivering entertainment to U.S. homes. Comcast, the nation's No. 1 pay TV and Internet provider, says the purchase will provide faster, more reliable service to more customers and save money on TV programming costs. But industry watchdogs say the deal will give the company too much power and ultimately raise the price of high-speed connections.
• . CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY COMMITTED IN NORTH KOREA, UN PANEL FINDS
• A U.N. panel concludes that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and will call for an international criminal investigation, The Associated Press has learned. The report, to be released Monday, is the most authoritative account yet of rights violations by North Korean authorities and is bound to infuriate the country's unpredictable leader. Justice remains a distant prospect: North Korea's ally, China, is likely to block any referral to the International Criminal Court.
• . HOUSE VOTES TO RAISE GOVERNMENT'S BORROWING LIMIT, WITH NO CONDITIONS
• Unwilling to spook the markets and divided among themselves, House Republicans backed away Tuesday from a battle over the government's debt limit and permitted President Barack Obama's Democratic allies to drive quick passage of a measure raising the government's borrowing authority until March 2015, without any concessions from the White House.
• . FACEBOOK OFFERS NEW GENDER OPTIONS FOR USERS
• You don't have to be just male or female on Facebook anymore, with the launch Thursday of a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender, as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them. Facebook says the changes are aimed at giving people more choices in how they describe themselves, such as androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.
• . NOT AGAIN: NORTHEAST HIT WITH ANOTHER STORM; SOUTH REELS FROM ICE AND POWER OUTAGES
• Yet another storm paralyzed the Northeast with heavy snow and sleet Thursday, while hundreds of thousands across the ice-encrusted South waited in the cold for

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