Ken Stanford

With Illinois set to become the 15th state nationwide to legalize same-sex marriage, Chicago couple Theresa Volpe and Mercedes Santos finally began planning the wedding they'd started thinking about more than two decades ago.

Americans who passed part, but not all, of the GED test are rushing to finish the high school equivalency exam before a new version rolls out in January and their previous scores are wiped out. About 1 million people could be affected.

Invoking the Declaration of Independence, proponents of a bill that would outlaw discrimination against gays in the workplace argued on Tuesday that the measure is rooted in fundamental fairness for all Americans.

Weak earnings reports from a handful of U.S. companies are tugging stock indexes slightly lower.

After years of steady increases, testing for colon cancer may be leveling off, a federal report suggests.

A federal lawsuit filed in Atlanta asks a judge to declare Georgia's "stand your ground" law unconstitutional.