WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Thursday released testimony that was censored during court appearances made by the September 11 suspects at Guantanamo on Saturday, with a...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s support for same-sex marriage should not cost him many votes among African Americans in this November’s presidential election, political analysts said Thursday....
NEW YORK — New York could get its first woman — and lesbian — mayor next year, according to a poll Thursday that showed influential city...
WASHINGTON — A panel of independent experts on Thursday urged the US Food and Drug Administration to approve the first new anti-obesity drug in more than...
WASHINGTON — Online scams including identity theft schemes, “advance fee” and “romance fraud” cost Americans some $485 million in 2011, a report prepared for the FBI...
WASHINGTON — A day after President Barack Obama strongly backed gay marriage, his campaign sought a political dividend Thursday, condemning Mitt Romney for wanting to turn...
Judy Shepard, whose son was murdered for being gay, blasted Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for allegedly harassing prep school classmates he judged to be too...
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday night approved an amendment to the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill to prevent the Obama Administration from taking legal action against...
A judge in Montana ruled this week that the state’s ban on using taxpayer money to provide birth control coverage to girls on the Healthy Montana Kids...
A group of teenagers from Ventura, California has filed suit against the federal government for its failure to address the risks facing their generation from climate...
The leader of a Christian think tank is warning that marriage between two men or two women “only brings pain and heartache.” In a video message,...
The U.S. Department of Justice held a press conference this afternoon to announce its lawsuit against controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio for engaging “in a pattern...
New claims for US unemployment benefits fell for the second week running last week, but not as much as expected as the troubled labor market slowly...
Police have arrested a 17-year-old suspected spokesman for Team Poison, a hacking group that has claimed responsibility for a series of high-profile cyber-attacks. The boy was...
The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jose Graziano da Silva, warned Thursday of a major funding gap for activities in the Sahel and...