Woman in shooting pledged allegiance to IS
By AMANDA LEE MYERS and TAMI ABDOLLAH The woman who helped her husband kill 14 people at a holiday banquet for his county co-workers pledged allegiance to the Islamic State…
Family issues
Pope meets with sex-abuse victims, promises accountability
By NICOLE WINFIELD and RACHEL ZOLL Pope Francis met with victims of child sexual abuse Sunday on the final day of his U.S. visit and promised to hold accountable those…
Party ousts Australian PM Abbott for more moderate rival
By ROD McGUIRK Australia’s ruling conservatives ousted beleaguered Prime Minister Tony Abbott as party leader Monday evening in a change that could signal a different Australian response to climate change…
Clerk in gay-marriage fight back to work Friday or Monday
By ADAM BEAM After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will return to work as soon as…
Pope speeds up, simplifies process for marriage annulments
By NICOLE WINFIELD Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church’s process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and…
Huckabee to join rally for clerk opposed to gay marriage
By DYLAN LOVAN Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will join protesters at a Tuesday rally outside the jail where a Kentucky clerk is locked in a cell…
With clerk jailed, gay Kentucky couple gets marriage license
By ADAM BEAM A gay couple emerged from a Kentucky county clerk’s office with a marriage license in hand Friday morning, embracing and crying as the defiant clerk who runs…
Federal judge orders Kentucky clerk and her staff to court
By CLAIRE GALOFARO A county clerk who invoked “God’s authority” as she defied the U.S. Supreme Court yet again on gay marriage Tuesday refused to resign and now must face…