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wagen tacitly endorsed the union and even allowed organizers into the Chattanooga factory to make sales pitches.
• The loss is a major setback for the UAW's effort to make inroads in the growing South, where foreign automakers have 14 assembly plants, eight built in the past decade, said Kristin Dziczek, director of the labor and industry group at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank in Michigan.
• "If this was going to work anywhere, this is where it was going to work," she said of the Volkswagen vote.
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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actress Ellen Page who won the hearts of moviegoers as the pregnant teenager in the film "Juno" has come out as gay.
• "I'm here today because I am gay," the 26-year-old actress said Friday -- speaking to a Las Vegas conference of counselors who work with teenagers who identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual or queer, known as LGBTQ.
• A video of her speech was posted on the Los Angeles Times website.
• Page says that she suffered for years because she was afraid to come out.
• "I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of all that pain."
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• PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- Drawing a link between climate change and California's drought, President Barack Obama says the U.S. has to stop thinking of water as a "zero-sum" game and must do a better job of figuring out how to make sure everyone's water needs are satisfied.
• On a tour of central California on Friday, Obama warned that weather-related disasters will only get worse.
• "We can't think of this simply as a zero-sum game. It can't just be a matter of there's going to be less and less water so I'm going to grab more and more of a shrinking share of water," Obama said after touring part of a farm that is suffering under the state's worst drought in more than 100 years.
• "Instead what we have to do is all come together and figure out how we all are going to make sure that agricultural needs, urban needs, industrial needs, environ

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