Department of Veterans Affairs says federal law still prohibits it from providing spousal benefits to same-sex married couples.
The Michigan state Senate has now passed the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. It took a second vote by the full chamber and one senator changing his vote. Dylan Scott has more.
As the war drum beats, cable news spends the day speculating which targets in Syria should be hit with which bombs.
Pat Robertson: San Francisco gays wear special sharp-tipped rings contaminated with AIDS that deliberately infect unsuspecting believers with a mere handshake.
The lawyer for a fired Fox News executive says the network’s chief Roger Ailes should fear his client.
The former intern who helped save Rep. Gabby Giffords when she was shot in the head is now being targeted with an anti-gay smear campaign.
News this morning that Entergy will close and decommission the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. A hugely controversial plant — even as the politics of nuclear power has changed a lot in the last four decades — and in the end it sounds like economics as much as political opposition contributed to its closure.
You already know how the Affordable Care Act failed to provide funding for the federally run health insurance exchanges. These are the exchanges HHS is setting up in states that refuse to set up their own, which contrary to initial predictions ended up being over half the states. HHS has been scrambling to find the funding to run these exchanges (the GOP House has refused to help fix the error and allocate additional funding). Read More