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South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Thursday approved the country's Civil Unions Bill , making South Africa the first African nation to recognize same-sex unions . Mlambo-Ngcuka signed the measure into...

The South African National Council of Provinces has approved the Civil Unions Bill , legislation that would make South Africa the first African nation to recognize same-sex unions if President...

Miller-Jenkins v. Miller-Jenkins, Virginia Court of Appeals, November 28, 2006 [ruling that Virginia state courts have a constitutional obligation to defer to the rulings of Vermont courts in a child custody dispute involving two lesbian parteners who had entered into...

The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Virginia state courts had a constitutional obligation to defer to the rulings of Vermont courts in a child custody dispute involving two lesbian partners who had entered...

The South African Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that same-sex partners in a permanent relationship have the same inheritance rights as married heterosexual couples , and that a surviving partner could therefore take by intestacy...

The Supreme Court of Israel ruled 6-1 Tuesday that same-sex marriages ordained abroad must be recognized by the state . The ruling does not allow for same-sex civil marriages to occur...

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on Sunday urged state legislators to vote on a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage ban and said he will petition the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to place the question...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales attacked critics of President Bush's domestic surveillance program in a speech at the Air Force Academy Saturday, saying their views...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , has introduced a new bill, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Oversight and Resource Enhancement Act of 2006 , that would...

Shaun Hansen, former owner of the telemarketing firm Mylo Enterprises Inc., pleaded guilty to two federal counts of conspiracy to commit interstate telephone harassment on Wednesday for his involvement in the New Hampshire GOP's 2002 phone jamming plot [Wikipedia...