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A new Gallup poll shows growing support for marijuana legalization, with 64 percent of Americans now in favor of the measure. The number is the highest level of support in nearly half a century of surveying adults on the issue, according to Gallup. Support has steadily increased in recent years, with the latest figure up 4 percentage points over last year and up 14 points from 2011. The poll also showed a majority of Republicans favoring legalization for the first time, with 51 percent expressing support. That number is up 9 percentage points from last year, according to Gallup.

WASHINGTON Bush III? Or has the dynasty run its course? Those are the questions some Republicans are asking themselves as political talk bubbles up yet again about President George W. Bush's brother, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, and his interest in the White House. The chief driver of the mini-buzz is the current occupant of the White House, who has said twice this month that his younger brother would make "a great president." No one is suggesting, the president included, that the younger Bush will run in 2008, and Governor Bush, whose second term is up at the end of...

TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush says he believes in evolution, but that God created man and all life on earth. He thinks science standards in the state need to be improved, but that teaching evolution shouldn't actually be part of the curriculum. And he's open to a ``vigorous discussion of varying viewpoints in our classrooms,`` which in politico-speak means he's not necessarily against a teacher talking about intelligent design. Got that? Bush's press office has issued two updates to the comments he first made to the Miami Herald about evolution and intelligent design. Taken as a whole, they have philosophers...