
Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank wed his longtime partner, James Ready, on Saturday, becoming the first sitting congressman to enter into a same-sex marriage.
Maine Governor Paul LePage called the IRS the “new Gestapo.”
House Speaker John Boehner said that he doesn’t know of a way to make people love Mitt Romney.
Maine Senator Susan Collins has never missed a vote since assuming office in the U.S. Senate. She is about to register her 5,000 consecutive vote.
How’s the climate change denial going? The first six months of 2012 accounted for the warmest January-through-June period on record for the contiguous U.S.
A redistricting fiasco in Kansas has candidates on the ballot who don’t want to be elected.
The Montana Supreme Court ruled that obesity qualifies as an impairment under the Montana Human Rights Act, potentially allowing obese people to seek greater protection against discrimination.
A federal judge ruled that Iran should pay $813 million in damages to families of US soldiers killed in the 1983 Beirut terrorist attack.
The U.N. Human Rights Council has declared that basic human rights, such as freedom of expression, exist on the internet too.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has been re-elected head of Bolivia’s coca growers union.
For the first time, Disney characters have been spotted in North Korea.




