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The judge reportedly told the couple that myriad studies have proved children are better off with heterosexual couples. State officials say they will try to get the order changed.

Republican candidate for Missouri governor Catherine Hanaway says she supports carriage of concealed weapons without a permit for law-abiding citizens....

The deep-rooted history and current disrepair of the aging Alabama bus fleet continue to affect its predominantly black riders.

"This proposed rule will help improve the health of more than 760,000 children and help public housing agencies save $153 million," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro says.

My All-American is out in theaters on Friday. It's a story about Texas football and is written by the same person who did Rudy and Hoosiers. It centers on one of the players, Freddie Steinmark, and an improbable story that reached all the way to the White House.

The activist group Concerned Student 1950 has vowed to keep pushing for change in the wake of resignations by both the University of Missouri system President, Tim Wolfe, and chancellor of the Columbia campus, R. Bowen Loftin. Among their demands is increasing the number of black faculty members at Mizzou from 3 percent to 10 percent over the next two years.

Over the next few days, gun-rights activists will challenge the limits of the Missouri’s gun laws in different ways. On Friday, an attorney for Ohio...

A force of some 7,000 Kurds says it has wrested control of Sinjar from ISIS, ending in a few days an occupation that had lasted 15 months.

On an Alaska mountaintop, Ian McIntosh fell and cartwheeled 1,600 feet down a nearly vertical wall of snow. Video shows a black spot tumbling down, so small in the landscape he looks like an insect.

In one entry, a boy describes fleeing Iraq only to struggle with illness and worry about his family's safety. Asked what he wants to be when he grows up, he responds, "Anything, free."