California’s Supreme Court declared Thursday that same-sex couples in the nation’s biggest state can marry — a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay-rights movement that was greeted with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one onthe- spot proposal.

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David Yee didn’t meet Thursday’s state Supreme Court decision to end a ban on same-sex marriage with upraised arms. And he wasn’t angry or disappointed, either. Yee just doesn’t care. “I don’t have an opinion,” the 40-year old security guard said Thursday afternoon. “I could go either way.”

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The parents of a teenager killed by an escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo filed a claim against the city Thursday, seeking monetary compensation for the fatal mauling of their 17-year-old son. Carlos Sousa Jr. died on Christmas Day when a Siberian tiger named Tatiana escaped its enclosure and attacked the San Jose teenager and two of his friends. Kulbir and Paul Dhaliwal were injured before the tiger was shot dead by police.

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