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Mexico won't send candidate to Miss Universe over Trump comments: Televisa

Mexico will not send a contestant to this year's Miss Universe pageant after part owner and TV personality Donald Trump made comments insulting Mexicans, Mexican broadcaster Televisa said on June 29.

Televisa and former Miss Universe Lupita Jones organize a pageant to select a Mexican candidate for the contest. 

U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage nationwide

The Supreme Court ruled on June 26 that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry in a historic triumph for the American gay rights movement.

The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the ruling, gay marriage will become legal in all 50 states. 

Historic Legalization of Gay Marriage across the United States

The US Supreme Court ruled that the constitution guarantees a right for same-sex couples to marry, a decision that has now made gay marriage legal in all 50 states of the nation.

 

The court ruled, with a 5-4 vote, that the constitution requires a state to license a marriage between same-sex couples. Each of the dissenting justices wrote a dissent.

 

Pres. Obama heckled by small sample of LGBT community members (Video)

US President Barack Obama probably expected a better-behaved crowd during his speech before the LGBT community in the White House, yesterday.

 

During the event, which took place in the “East Room”, to honor the LGBT month, President Obama was rudely interrupted many a time by voices heckling him from the crowd.

 

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