Same-sex couple Amber Weiss and Sharon Papo stand in line to receive their marriage license before getting married at San Francisco City Hall June 17, 2008 in San Francisco.

A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it was an "ahmazing" and "pretty enjoyable" experience - then headed off to church with a laugh.

Tax reform sounds like a good idea to lots of people, but where to start? Eliminate the popular deduction for home mortgages? End the write-off for charitable contributions? How about expanding the Social Security payroll tax? Politicians of all stripes in this presidential election year are clamoring for simplifying the tax code and closing ... (more)

Only 29 percent of voters nationwide believe the United States is heading in the right direction, while 64 percent believe the nation has gotten off on the wrong track.

President Barack Obama on Saturday pressed lawmakers to pass his proposal to provide up to $10 billion in aid to struggling homeowners, saying a failure to address the housing crisis would put the rest of the economy at risk.

From North Texas to Austin to D.C., our insiders take you beyond the usual rhetoric on government and politics Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott agreed today to a temporary voting map that could keep Texas' primary election on April 3. "The proposed maps minimize changes to the redistricting plan passed by the Legislature and, as the U. S. Supreme ... (more)

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice speaks to reporters after the Security Council voted on a resolution backing an Arab League peace plan that calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down , Saturday.

In this June 27, 2011, file photo Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., with her husband Marcus signs autographs after her formal announcement to seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in Waterloo, Iowa.

Maskandi singer Khulekani Mseleku, popularly known as Mgqumeni, who was believed to be dead and buried in 2009, has suddenly made a shocking reappearance

The man claiming to be KwaZulu-Natal maskandi musician, Khulekani Mseleku, will appear in court tomorrow on a charge of fraud.

One of NASA's twin Grail spacecraft has returned its first unique picture of the far side of the moon, an image that shows shadowed craters at the moon's south pole.

The current favorite argument of those who argue that climate changes isn't happening, or a problem, or worth dealing with, is that global warming has stopped.

Bone-bothering US boffins have identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed "Shieldcroc" because of a flat ornamental skin shield on its ginormous head.

The hard-headed Aegisuchus witmeri is one of modern-day crocs' earliest ancestors found in Africa, the researchers claim. "Along with other discoveries, we are finding that crocodile ancestors are far more diverse than scientists previously realised,"

A group aligned with the Tea Party has funneled more than $1.3 million in anonymous contributions to a super PAC working aggressively to unseat Utah Sen.

Days after a judge ruled against him in a child custody hearing, a father and his two young sons were killed Sunday when police said he appeared to intentionally blow up a house with all three inside - a tragic ending to a bizarre case that began more than two years ago when the man's wife went mysteriously missing in Utah.

President Obama said Sunday he believed Israel has not yet decided whether to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. "I don't think that Israel has made a decision," Obama said in an interview with NBC News.