SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Rumors swirled that the federal judge who had struck down California's same-sex marriage ban last summer was gay

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court rejected a call Monday from Virginia's attorney general to depart from its usual practice and put review of the health care law on a fast track

Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can fly to Florida on Friday to watch her astronaut husband rocket into space as commander of the space shuttle Endeavour, her doctors in Houston confirmed to The Associated Press Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Does misery really love company? An intriguing new study suggests that may be the case

A new audit of the city's real estate acquisitions and holdings shows that although the bulk of the properties taken for tax delinquency are in predominantly Black neighborhoods, most saw more properties resold

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pausing to observe Holy Week amid war and policy struggles, President Barack Obama said last week that the agony of Jesus Christ through death and resurrection puts mere political struggle "in perspective."

According to findings by a national policy institute for race and economic justice, racial tensions in America undergird the debate over national health reform

Blacks in Washington, D.C. are barely in the majority, according to 2010 U.S. Census Bureau figures

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's economic upheaval has been especially hard on young people trying to start their working lives with a high school education or less

The beginning of the month may have felt like April Fool's Day to a significant segment of America's labor population.  That's when reports started pouring in about the new jobless rate and rise in job creation