Hot Issues

US District Judge Timothy Black of Ohio issued a statement favoring the striking down of the state's same-sex marriage ban, echoing an earlier ruling, of which he said that the ban should not be enforced just because the majority of the voting public do not like homosexuality, USA Today said.

Yesterday, Samsung Electronics Co managed a small victory in its patent infringement trial after a judge declined Apple Inc's request to show evidence mostly from its previous case to prove its competitor had used some of its patents in dispute, Bloomberg said.

Commanding general Lt General Mark Milley of Fort Hood formally identified the gunman of the fatal shooting spree on Wednesday as Army Spec. Ivan Lopez, who was cleared last month from a full psychiatric exam, The Washington Post said.