WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court ruling this month that could overturn the ban on federal benefits for same-sex couples is presenting the Obama administration with a series of complicated and politically ... Read more
WASHINGTON — As Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was struggling with how to cast the decisive vote in a 1986 Supreme Court case that would end up devastating the gay rights movement, he told his fellow ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee considered more than 100 amendments to immigration legislation last month before sending it to the full Senate, which is expected to begin debate on the bill on ... Read more
WASHINGTON — As Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was struggling with how to cast the decisive vote in a 1986 Supreme Court case that would end up devastating the gay rights movement, he told his fellow ... Read more
WASHINGTON — As Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. was struggling with how to cast the decisive vote in a 1986 Supreme Court case that would end up devastating the gay rights movement, he told his fellow ... Read more
SIGOLSHEIM, France — Thierry Speitel is getting married on Sept. 21. That’s big news here, and not just because Mr. Speitel is the twice-elected mayor of this village of 1,300 inhabitants in the ... Read more
Under pressure from legislators and a vigorous campaign by religious and civil rights groups to legalize same-sex marriage in New Mexico, the state’s attorney general, Gary King, cautioned city clerks on ... Read more
A solid majority of Americans opposes a broad national right to same-sex marriage, saying the power to legalize gay unions should rest with the states — even as most support marriage equality for gay ... Read more
LONDON — The House of Lords stands as one of the great bastions of tradition here, a baroque link to a distant, noble-centric past of pomp and pageantry. Its members serve for life. Their average age is ... Read more
CHICAGO — With time running out on Illinois’s legislative session, State House members on Friday night chose not to call a vote on whether to permit same-sex couples to wed, apparently because ... Read more