Tweet A federal appeals court ruled that California’s ban on same-sex marriage. It became the first in the United States to conclude that a state has no convincing legal or social justification to deny gay and lesbian couples the right to wed. The ruling brings the issue closer to the US Supreme Court. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals declared that... 

Tweet A new tell-all book will be released by Random House on Wednesday that would detail the 18 month affair of a White House intern with President John F. Kennedy. The former intern was 19 when she first met the president and has kept her secret for more than 40 years. The book is titled Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and... 

Tweet Park Police arrested 11 people in Washington’s McPherson Square as they cleared the tents from one of the last remaining Occupy sites in the United States. According to David Schlosser, spokesperson of the United Sates Park Police, one of those arrested was charged with felony assault on a police officer and assault with a deadly weapon. The person... 

Tweet The Catholic Church criticized the White House defense of the new rules that would require religious employers to provide contraception to their workers with regards to the government’s health insurance plans. According to Anthony Picarello, general counsel of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, White House’s information is misleading and... 

Tweet The unemployment rate in the United States fell in January to a record low in the last three years. At the same time, payrolls increased more than expected. These changes casted doubts on the Federal Reserve’s plan to keep the interest rates low until late 2014. The jobless rate fell to 8.3 percent, which is the lowest level since February 2009.... 

Tweet Republicans in the House said that senior officials at the Justice Department should have known about the controversial strategies employed at the failed operation to track illegal firearms deals to Mexico because the information were readily available to them. President Barack Obama’s administration has been criticized for over a year over the... 

Tweet Political analyst Scott Rasmussen said that the United States is in the middle of a fiscal crisis and the federal office in charge of decreasing the deficit has failed to do so. The Rasmussen Reports released the statement after the Congressional Budget Office announced that the federal budget deficit would reach $1.1 trillion in 2012. Rasmussen... 

Tweet President Barack Obama asked Congress to act on the bipartisan measures that will extend the tax breaks for small businesses as well as help startup companies raise funds. The president said that he would sign the legislation immediately. Obama wants to include in his 2013 budget proposal a set of business measures that have been sitting in Congress... 

Tweet With just eight days before the Missouri presidential primary, Rick Santorum campaigned at the St. Charles County. He touted his proposals to improve the competitiveness of American manufacturers. The former Pennsylvania senator wants the government to get out of the way. Santorum called for the repeal of the federal tax on companies that manufacture... 

Tweet Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would go all the way to the Republican National Convention no matter what happens on Tuesday, when GOP voters in Florida select who they want to run against President Barack Obama in November. He added that he expects to win the nomination in the convention. His future plan was made public in...