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…
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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…
The Latest: Al-Jazeera vows to free journalists in Egypt
Here are the latest developments in Egypt’s retrial of three Al-Jazeera English journalists (all times local) 3:45 p.m. The lawyer for Al-Jazeera English correspondent Peter Greste says his three-year jail…
Greece moves closer to announcement of early election date
By ELENA BECATOROS Greece came one step closer on Thursday to early elections with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos appointing the head of the country’s Supreme Court as caretaker prime minister to…
Same-sex couple cheers gay marriage ruling in Kentucky
By CLAIRE GALOFARO and ADAM BEAM April Miller and Karen Roberts hugged as the news flashed across their television screen, and their hug turned into a brief slow dance across…
Prosecutor: Ex-Subway pitchman paid kids for sex on NY trips
Longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle capitalized on his business trips to New York City to arrange sexual encounters with minors in luxury hotels, federal prosecutors said in charging the Indiana…