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 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 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 At least 400 Occupy protesters were arrested in Oakland after they fought with the police, who in turn fired tear gas and bean bag projectiles. This is the largest number of arrests made in a single day since protests started last year. Authorities said that the official number of arrests was between 200 and 300 but an Oakland emergency operations... 

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... 

Tweet People criticized President Barack Obama for proposing small bail initiatives during his State of the Union address. Gone are the measures to confront climate change or to improve the immigration system. Instead the president settled for small measures that can be passed unilaterally. He has several in his list and he mentioned three more in his... 

Tweet During his State of Union Address, President Barack Obama said that he wants the government to have a strong role in times of federal deficits and increasing taxes. The Republicans often say that the government is the problem but the president said that the government is a major contributor to the improvement of the country’s economy. The president...