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Mississippi has become the third state to sue BP over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

(Reuters) AFRICA NIGERIA: NORTHERN ALERT -- Security forces have been sent to the northern state of Kano, which today will become the third state to institute Shariah, the strict Islamic penal and social code.

New Jersey had become the third state to ban the direct-sales model, following Arizona and Texas.

California will become the third state to permit pharmacist-issued birth control once the law, passed in 2013, gains regulatory approval.

Marijuana advocates have expressed hope that New York could become the third state to legalize marijuana, and perhaps the first to do it through legislation.

Hawaii would become the fifteenth state with gay marriage.

WHAT state is poised to become the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage?

Washington would become the seventh state in which such marriages are legal.

Colorado will become the first state in America to tax the sale of marijuana.

Colorado would become the sixth state to support civil unions.

In November, Maine will become the first state to use ranked choice voting for statewide elections.