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 spokesman attributing the omission to a mistake. Michael Schwartz, a lawyer...

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. Ninety-six percent of African Americans...

NEW YORK — New York could get its first woman — and lesbian — mayor next year, according to a poll Thursday that showed influential city legislator Christine Quinn well ahead of popular Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Neither has...

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 a decade — Lorcaserin, made by Arena Pharmaceuticals. The committee voted 18-4 in...

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 said Thursday. The Internet Crime Complaint Center...

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 “backwards on equality.” In an Internet video slamming the...

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 effeminate. “While this may seem like an innocent prank to some,...

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 the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) or state...

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 program is unconstitutional. Montana District Court Judge Jim Reynolds said in his...

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 change, according to an article at The Atlantic.com. Led by 18-year-old Alec...

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, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council — a hate group, according the the...

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 or practice of unlawful discriminatory police conduct directed at Latinos...

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 recovers, official data showed Thursday. New jobless claims totaled 367,000 in the week ending...

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 arrested on Wednesday in Newcastle in connection with alleged...

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 the Horn of Africa. Speaking at an international economic forum in Madrid, Graziano da Silva...