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• Late Sunday a federal judge declared Alaska's 16-year old same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, clearing the way for marriage equality and same-sex marriages to begin immediately there.
• More than 1,000 protesters marched Sunday night to remember two black teenagers slain by police in St. Louis, capping four days of planned marches, protests, and demonstrations.
• A third week of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong is being met by pro-Chinese marchers in surgical masks demanding that the protesters break up and go home.
• A new government report finds one in seven Australians are living below the poverty line, despite decades of economic growth and billions in investment in the nation's natural resources.
• The United States is getting closer to energy independence as the oil boom and renewable resources have cut energy imports by two-thirds in just eight years.