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SMITHFIELD, Va. (AP) — The black two-story shed still stands out back at 1915 Moonlight Road — a haunting reminder of the brutal dog fights that took ...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man used social media to promote his gun store, posting politically charged messages that criticized the president and promoted...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than five years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history fouled beaches, coated seabirds in thick goo and threatened...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Episcopal Church has completed its embrace of gay rights, changing church law to allow same-sex religious marriages througho...

NEW YORK (AP) — You may have noticed your Facebook friends getting considerably more colorful. More than 26 million Facebook profile photos have taken...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Episcopalians were set to vote Wednesday on allowing religious weddings for gay couples, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge says Alabama counties must abide by court decisions allowing gay marriage. U.S. District Judge Callie Granade ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider limiting the power of government employee unions to collect fees from non-members in a case that lab...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Groups hoping to squeeze partisan politics out of how states shape congressional districts are hailing a Supreme Court decision that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court refused on Monday to allow Texas to enforce restrictions that would force 10 abortion clinics to close. The justic...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court upheld the use of a controversial drug in lethal-injection executions Monday, even as two dissenting ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rainbows and good cheer will be out in force Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people pack gay pride events from New York City t...

LONDON (AP) — The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriages has no legal force outside the United States, but gay rights activ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down part of a federal law intended keep people convicted of repeated violent crimes in prison lo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's resounding rejection of a conservative attempt to gut President Barack Obama's health care overhaul won't stop R...

CHICAGO (AP) — Throughout the country, relief was the dominant emotion among consumers who get help from the government to lower their health insuranc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chief justice who once mangled President Barack Obama's oath of office has once again helped rescue the president's signature ac...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Justice Anthony Kennedy took the bench Friday at the Supreme Court, some were thinking about his past decisions and other June ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, who himself has acknowledged an evolution over gay rights, said Friday that the Supreme Court's ruling givin...

Some snapshots of Americans reacting to Friday's Supreme Court ruling declaring that same-sex couples have a right to marry in all 50 states. ___ TEXA...