
Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a request from opponents of gay marriage to put on hold a new law that allows same-sex couples to wed in Washington, D.C.
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Eight American missionaries were freed from a Haitian jail Wednesday, nearly three weeks after being charged with child kidnapping for trying to take a group of children out of the quake-stricken country.



The president used his State of the Union address to cover many topics. He responded to deep public resentment of how Washington rescued the teetering financial sector at taxpayers' expense.




President Obama proclaimed Jan. 16 as Religious Freedom Day in the United States in commemoration of a statute passed by America's forefathers that declared freedom of religion as a natural right of all humanity.
After the earth shook more violently in Haiti than it has in two centuries, its citizens hunkered down for the night, awaiting daylight Wednesday to ascertain the full scope of death and devastation.
An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

Under explosive bursts of crimson, purple and blue, more than 1 million New Year revelers in Sydney got one of the world's biggest parties started Thursday - bidding farewell to the tough year that was 2009 and welcoming a new decade.
A national organization promoting prayer for our nation's leaders has revealed the locations across the United States which pray the most for those in authority over us -- and the results are quite surprising.
After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.
As the celebration of Christmas fast approaches, our attention quickly goes to the familiar words of the infancy narratives found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. This is a healthy reflex.
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President Barack Obama had a chat with White House correspondent April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks on Monday to answer critics who say he isn't showing enough compassion toward black America.
It was the middle of the night in Washington, but all 100 senators were gathered in the Capitol for a key procedural vote on health care reform legislation.
For years, James Bain insisted he was home watching TV with his twin sister when a 9-year-old boy was kidnapped and raped.

