Nation News

In the first of two votes on allowing same-sex marriage in the nation's capital, the District of Columbia City Council has passed the bill 11 to 2. Read More

Records show the 19-year-old driver who plowed his car into a minivan, killing a family of four, had his license suspended for a year for drunken driving in 2007. Read More

Hecklers in the audience broke into a loudly sung version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" and forced a high-profile Arizona sheriff to abandon a First Amendment forum sponsored by Arizona State University's journalism school. Read More

A plan for reuniting a runaway Christian convert and her Muslim family calls for the girl and her parents to listen to each other's views about religion. Read More

A Minnesota woman is suing the federal government after a letter she mailed to her son in Iraq was returned with the word "deceased" stamped on the envelope, even though the soldier is alive. Read More

A man accused of shooting four relatives to death after Thanksgiving dinner in South Florida told family members he had been waiting 20 years to kill them, the father of one of the victims said Tuesday. Read More

A high school dropout has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing four people in upstate New York during two robberies over the Christmas holidays last year. Read More

A New York Police Department report says nearly 1 in 6 undercover officers has been mistaken for a suspect by fellow officers _ and come face-to-face with a loaded gun. Read More

Attorneys for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford told lawmakers mulling impeachment Tuesday that their client did nothing improper by using state-owned aircraft for travel that included political and personal events. Read More

The Roman Catholic diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., is expected to release thousands of documents connected to sexual abuse lawsuits. Read More

The man suspected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Four people were arrested for allegedly helping the suspect elude authorities during a massive two-day manhunt. Read More

An African-American newspaper in Cleveland published an editorial cartoon that portrayed a black lawmaker as Aunt Jemima, angering her supporters. Read More

President Barack Obama's aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish over no longer having contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing. Read More

Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way. Read More

Witness testimony during a federal court hearing for the man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart on Monday began to paint a picture of a self-absorbed, intelligent and controlling person. Read More

President Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, has exiled herself from her famous family as she faces possible deportation. Onyango, a native Kenyan, lives in Boston, although she was supposed to leave the United States five years ago. In a rare interview, she says she fears hurting Obama politically, and so stays away. Read More

A former Missouri city official previously accused of assaulting his wife was charged Monday with capital murder in the shootings of her and their two teenage daughters in eastern Kansas. Read More

Voters are choosing Atlanta's new mayor in a decision likely to hinge on race as a white city councilwoman faces a black former state senator. Read More

Wet weather in the East was expected to diminish Tuesday as a cold front pushed off shore, while a strong low pressure system could bring snow to the Southern Rockies. Read More

The leaders in the local large Orthodox Jewish community go to great lengths to keep out the outside world, discouraging nonbusiness use of the Internet and encouraging strict filters to keep the ungodly out when members must use the Web. Read More