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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.
Texas attorney general says county clerks can refuse gay couples
County clerks in Texas who object to gay marriage can refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite last week's landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to allow same-sex marriage, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on June 28.
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.
U.S. State Dept. calls Clinton's email records incomplete
Hillary Clinton did not hand over at least 15 emails from her time as secretary of state, the U.S. State Department said on June 25, undercutting her claim that the 30,000 work emails she provided from her personal server were a complete record.
9 dead in Alaska sightseeing plane crash: police
A sightseeing plane crashed in southeast Alaska June 25 killing all nine people onboard, US police said.
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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.
Obama, in podcast, uses N-word to make point on racism
US President Barack Obama on June 22 ignited a storm of social media debate when he used a racial epithet in an interview posted online that discussed race relations following the recent killings of nine black churchgoers.
Michelle goes Greek, fashion-wise
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Suspect caught in US black church 'hate crime' rampage
Police captured the white suspect June 18 in a gun massacre at one of the oldest black churches in the United States, the latest deadly assault to feed simmering racial tensions.