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NEW YORK (AP) -- At a birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons of New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the mother of a man beaten to death because of his sexuality said words couldn't express her gratitude. An 82-year-old photographer who chronicled protests in the 1960s called it "a new dawn."...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage adds a new layer of complexity for voters - especially independents - in battleground states that will decide the race for the White House....

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage adds a new layer of complexity for voters - especially independents - in battleground states that will decide the race for the White House....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shortly before President Barack Obama voiced his support for gay marriage, Vice President Joe Biden apologized to the president for comments that led him to speed up his public pronouncement....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military leaders have concluded that last year's repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in uniform has not affected morale or readiness so far, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney apologized Thursday for "stupid" high school pranks that may have gone too far and moved quickly to stamp out any notion that he bullied schoolmates because they were gay. His swift response reflected the Republican presidential candidate's recognition that his record on gay rights is under heightened scrutiny following President Barack Obama's embrace of gay marriage....

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MOUNT HOLLY — Jurors in New Jersey have delivered a mixed verdict at the trial of a marijuana activist who lives in California and goes by the name "NJWeedman."

The panel in Mount Holly on Wednesday convicted Ed Forchion of possession of a pound of pot in the ...

Infowars.com | The contest entries roll on, with unstoppable human consciousness seeking to understand and stop the tyranny enveloping the globe.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says....

NY Times | Japan is ready to nationalize Tokyo Electric Power under a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) bailout plan.

Kurt Nimmo | Ron Paul has a plan to reduce a large chunk of the debt.

ATLANTA (AP) -- The warnings about skin cancer from too much sun don't seem to be getting through....

DORE, N.D. — For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted.

As Dore's only residents, they lived in a ghost town on the desolate northern Plains. But now the Finsaases have neighbors - lots of them. ...

Associated Press | Soon Oklahomans may be able to carry their firearms holstered in plain sight.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A course for U.S. military officers has been teaching that America's enemy is Islam in general, not just terrorists, and suggested that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard for civilian deaths, following World War II precedents of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima or the allied firebombing of Dresden....

PHOENIX (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department sued America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff Thursday, a rare step for the agency after months of negotiations failed to reach a settlement over allegations that his department racially profiled Latinos in his trademark immigration patrols....

DENVER (AP) -- An environmental activist who disrupted an oil and gas auction for land near Utah's national parks did so in protest, bringing attention to parcels that shouldn't have been for sale, his lawyers argued Thursday....

Dr. Ron Paul | United States House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy & Technology, May 8, 2012.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The GOP-controlled House Thursday passed legislation to replace a looming 10 percent cut to the military budget with cuts to domestic programs like food stamps and health care....

David Swanson | Sibel Edmonds Finally Wins.