Senate nears historic vote on gay rights bill
By DONNA CASSATA Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, talks to reporters after the Senate cleared a major hurdle and agreed to proceed…
Family issues
How to make sense of 4 families slain in 4 days?
By JESSE WASHINGTON FILE – In this Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 file photo, Terrence Walker of Forney, Texas, the brother of 36-year-old Charles Everett Brownlow Jr., stands in front of…
NJ GOVERNOR ENDS GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT AS COUPLES WED
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANGELA DELLI SANTI Beth Asaro, left, and Joanne Schailey celebrate after exchanging vows to become the first same-sex couple married in Lambertville, N.J. history at 12:01…
POPE’S BLUNT REMARKS POSE CHALLENGE FOR BISHOPS
By RACHEL ZOLL FILE – In this March 15, 2013 photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis is greeted by Cardinal Timothy Dolan as he meets…
POPE BLASTS ABORTION AFTER DECRYING FOCUS ON RULES
By NICOLE WINFIELD Pope Francis meets Hungary’s President Janos Ader, during a private audience at the Vatican, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Claudio Peri, Pool) VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope…
ZIMMERMAN, WIFE SAY THE OTHER WAS AGGRESSOR
By KYLE HIGHTOWER and MIKE SCHNEIDER In this June 24, 2013 file photo, George Zimmerman, left, arrives in Seminole circuit court, with his wife Shellie, in Sanford, Fla. Shellie Zimmerman…
NAACP PRESIDENT BEN JEALOUS TO STEP DOWN THIS YEAR
File-This March 15, 2013 file photo shows NAACP President Ben Jealous speaking at a news conference in Annapolis, Md. Jealous, the president and CEO of the National Association for the…
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN’S WIFE SAYS HE IS ‘SELFISH’
FILE – In this Monday, June 24, 2013 file photo, George Zimmerman, left, arrives in Seminole circuit court with his wife, Shellie, on the 11th day of his trial, in…