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The Department of Veterans Affairs can no longer rely on its unique reading of federal law to refuse to provide full benefits to a California veteran in a same-sex marriage, a federal judge declared in a ruling filed late Thursday.U.S.
The Department of Veterans Affairs can no longer rely on its unique reading of federal law to refuse to provide full benefits to a California veteran in a same-sex marriage, a federal judge declared in a ruling filed late Thursday.U.S.
Meet the Assads, the family that has controlled Syria for decades — and is the source of enough palace intrigue that they’ve been compared to the Sopranos.Bashar Assad, the 47-year-old president, went to school to be an eye doctor and was not thought to have political aspirations.
An unmanned military Predator drone, similar to those that have seen action in Afghanistan, has been called in to battle against a raging California wildfire that has scorched an area almost as large as New York City.
Thirteen Muslim Americans challenging the U.S. governments' secretive "no-fly" list won a partial victory in federal court when a judge found they "have a constitutionally protected liberty interest" in traveling internationally by air. But U.S.
Slain World War II veteran Delbert "Shorty" Belton, whose death reverberated across the country, was given a military send-off Thursday and remembered as a "bantam rooster" whose courage spanned both ends of his life.
Hundreds of protesters marched outside the county courthouse Thursday in Billings, Mont., demanding the resignation of a judge who sent a high school teacher to jail for just 30 days for having sex with a 14-year-old student — who later killed herself.Carrying signs that read "RESIGN!
