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Hours before President Obama made history on Wednesday by becoming the first sitting president to explicitly back same-sex marriage, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney underscored his belief that marriage should be exclusively between a man and a woman.

President Obama is disappointed that North Carolina passed an amendment to its state constitution banning same-sex marriage, according to a statement from his campaign.

Same-sex marriage advocates are confident that the nation is moving gradually towards marriage equality, but they will need to contend with a majority of states -- North Carolina among them -- that restrict marriage to a man and a woman.

Senior Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod downplayed Vice President Joe Biden's vocal embrace of gay marriage, saying President Obama's shared the same beliefs.

The number of blacks and Hispanics registered to vote has dropped precipitously since the 2008 election, diminishing two bastions of Democratic support that could prove crucial in what promises to be a tight presidential race.

A recent investigation concluded more than 1,500 boxes of top secret or confidential-level documents have been misplaced as of March 2011.

Two members of the Florida Legislature argue the self-defense law empowers women against potential attackers, despite its questionable application in domestic violence cases.

Tasers can cause cardiac arrest and even death, according to a new study.

BP Plc (BP.L) reported a bigger-than-expected profit drop on the back of a fall in production prompted by the need to sell oil fields to pay for the Gulf of Mexico disaster, raising concerns about the oil group's turnaround plan.

Two members of Congress introduced a bill on Friday that would ban employers from requiring employees to hand over their social networking account information. The Social Network Online Protection Act was introduced by Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel of New York and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois.

The first part in a saga of litigation and claims for damages following the BP 2010 Gulf oil spill is just days away from being finished.

Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally conspired not to poach each other's employees.

Yonas Fikre, an American Muslim, is seeking asylum in Sweden and has claimed that he was detained, torture and kept in solitary confinement in the United Arab Emirates for 106 days at the request of the FBI.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York said 68-year-old David Gilmartin went to great lengths to avoid his legal obligation as a citizen to pay taxes.

Shares of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), the No. 1 search engine, fell after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said it had tried to impede a privacy investigation.

Google reported first-quarter financial results that beat analysts' estimates by a wide margin.

Chris Dodd, a former U.S. senator who heads the Motion Picture Association of America, said there will be another push for some kind of anti-piracy legislation after the 2012 elections.

The United States Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Apple and a handful of major book publishers on Wednesday, alleging that the companies colluded to raise the price of e-books back in 2010. Amazon is the clear winner here, but it won't win out in the long-run.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Apple and publishers worked to eliminate competition. Three publishers settled the case.

The American League of Lobbyists Monday decided to ask the U.S. Congress to approve a set of changes to current registration rules.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said President Barack Obama's remarks about the Supreme Court striking down the Affordable Care Act were fully consistent with the principles of judicial review.

A federal judge is retaliating against what he says was an inappropriate comment on the judiciary by President Barack Obama, and he is doing so with an unusual tactic: he assigned administration lawyers to do homework.

The U.S. government has until Thursday to respond to BP's accusation that it is withholding information on the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

BP Plc has accused the U.S. government of withholding evidence that may show the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was smaller than federal officials claimed, a key issue in determining the oil company's liability.

Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world’s biggest database software company, settled a price-fixing lawsuit against Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) for $58 million.

A Minnesota school district that came to crystallize a national debate about anti-gay bullying has agreed to institute broad new protections for students.

Attorney General Eric Holder supplied the legal justification Monday for the decision to kill American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , rebutting criticism that the view of executive power held by President Barack Obama's administration is overly broad.

Anonymous has taken to Twitter to downplay the incident and to warn users after Symantec released a report claiming that anti-Anonymous hackers had duped the hactivist collective into adding Zeus Trojan malware to a guide for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Although some Anonymous-affiliated Twitter handles have warned users of the modified link, most have gone after Symantec for misrepresenting the threat.

BP and three other energy companies late Friday reached a settlement with thousands of individuals and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill that killed 11 workers and fouled the Gulf of Mexico with millions of gallons of oil.