CIVIL RIGHTS

A New Orleans police officer who killed an unarmed man during a police shooting after Hurricane Katrina told a jury on Wednesday he felt "indescribable fear" in the moments before the shooting.

Needless to say, Stone is well occupied with all her future and recent releases. However, her most exciting role will be out this weekend with: "Crazy, Stupid, Love." Staring comedy titan Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, and Marisa Tomei, this film is sure to be a laughing success!

Ending a decade-long civil rights battle, the legal bars on the gay marriage have been removed in the New York City. To exchange vows legally for the first time, gay couples flocked clerk's offices across the state on Sunday.

The head of the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group on Monday condemned state laws requiring photo identification of voters as an attempt to disenfranchise minorities through some "of the last existing legal pillars of Jim Crow."

President Barack Obama said the federal government should not stand in the way of any state that chooses to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. According to a new poll released last week, over half of all Americans support the White House position.

The 'Gang of Six' senators have a lot riding on their shoulders: They may hold the power to save the United States from default.

The 'Gang of Six' Senators may hold the power to save the U.S. from default.

The indictment also states that Swartz, a former fellow at Harvard University's Center for Ethics, used MIT's computer networks to steal more than 4 million articles from JSTOR, a nonprofit that archives academic journals.

The U.S. Government borrowing authority ends on August 2. A failure by Democrats and Republicans to reach a deal on the debt ceiling could result in an event most economists for decades thought was unfathomable -- a default by the largest and most technologically advanced economy in the world.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, and a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party's presidential nomination, has officially quit her home church in Minnesota that has been accused of holding anti-Catholic views.

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has officially quit her church.

A breakthrough raises a moral dilemma

Former New Orleans homicide detective Jeffrey Lehrmann testified that the police had planted weapons and made up two witnesses to cover up the shooting of two civilians almost a week after the floods from Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

The backlash against Alabama's tough new immigration law intensified on Friday as several civil rights groups sued to try and overturn legislation, calling it the most extreme in the nation. Are they correct?

The UCLA Health System will pay $865,500 as part of a settlement agreement because its employees snooped into celebrity patients' medical records resulting in a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPPA violation .

The group's main objective is to fight for internet freedom and civil rights

The Sixth U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati Wednesday ruled that the new U.S. health Care law's mandate that everyone purchase insurance is constitutional, handing the Obama administration a victory.

President Barack Obama said gays and lesbians should receive equal treatment but stopped short of endorsing gay marriage during a news conference Wednesday, carefully parsing his answers to questions about New York's landmark same-sex marriage law.

Supporters of California's gay marriage ban are appealing a ruling that a U.S. judge's own gay relationship was no basis for throwing out his decision in support of same-sex marriage.

The Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy protection Monday - a move they say they need to undertake to access much-needed cash from a proposed media rights deal that Major League Baseball rejected.

New York's economy is likely to benefit - from increased marriage license fees to higher, full-scale wedding/reception revenue - from the state's new law legalizing same sex marriages.