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Two strong explosions rocked Damascus, Syria, on Thursday, killing more than 40 people and leaving residents dashing through bloody streets littered with debris, state media reported.

A historic site in China's former capital that dates back more than 600 years to the Ming Dynasty was damaged Sunday after a Ferrari raced across it prior to a publicity event for the Italian carmaker, the official Xinhua news agency said.

President Barack Obama's announcement that he now supports same-sex marriage came sooner than planned as a result of comments made by Vice President Joe Biden, he said in an interview broadcast Thursday.

The wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that went missing during a flight from Jakarta has been found 5,800 feet up an Indonesian volcano.

Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to President Barack Obama for comments that forced Obama's hand on same-sex marriage, administration officials say.

Jurors will resume deliberations at 10 a.m. ET Thursday in the trial of a man accused of killing the mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew of entertainer Jennifer Hudson.

The Andy Warhol classic painting "Double Elvis (Ferus Type)" sold Wednesday at Sotheby's in New York for $33 million, the auction house said.

Mexican authorities were investigating Wednesday after finding the dismembered bodies of 15 people inside two vehicles on a highway in western Mexico, state media reported.

North Carolina's newly approved constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage has sparked an effort to convince the Democratic Party to move its upcoming national convention somewhere else.

William Bennett says buried within Obama's campaign storybook ad is the ideological vision of modern liberalism

President Obama has obliterated the doubts of millions of his gay supporters, says Charles Kaiser, with a truly tranformational move to support equal marriage rights.

The police who are accused of beating Kelly Thomas to death need to be treated the same as any alleged killers -- prosecuted, and if convicted, sent to prison.

Richard Lugar's landslide loss in Tuesday's Indiana Republican primary isn't just a 36-year veteran getting tossed out of office before he wanted to go.

Closing arguments began Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of killing the mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew of entertainer Jennifer Hudson.

A California judge ordered Wednesday that two Fullerton police officers stand trial in the beating death last year of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man with a mental illness.

The primary loss for the longest-serving GOP senator is the latest blow to the political center in the polarized chamber. Nearly half a dozen moderate senators are retiring.

Has President Obama's stance on gay marriage changed over the years? Watch him speak on the issue in this timeline.

President Obama declares that gay marriage 'should be legal.'

Railroad ties, cement pilings and other debris reportedly mark the entrance to Marcus and Partricia Faella's rural Florida compound, situated on the edge of a wildlife management area marketed by tourism officials as a good spot for hikers, campers and bird watchers.

The Israeli parliament approved Wednesday by a vote of 71-23 a coalition agreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and the opposition Kadima party of Shaul Mofaz.