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“Mr. Cohen, tell the Court I love my wife and it is just unfair that I can’t live with her in Virginia.” That was the message that Bernard Cohen delivered in 1967 to the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Julia Joy described her relationship with her ex-husband of six years as friendly. When the novel coronavirus forced the city of Boise, Idaho, to shut down, they agreed on no social interaction outside of the house and to wear their ...

It took six minutes to get divorced at my dining-room table. My new ex-husband sat across from me, holding my left hand. Our cream French bulldog sniffed around for crumbs underfoot. Six minutes to end an eight-year marriage. Poof. Done. ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The case of Gavin Grimm, the transgender student barred from using the boys’ bathroom at his Virginia high school, returned to court Tuesday before a three-judge panel that seemed divided over whether federal laws protect transgender students ...

WASHINGTON — In the “What on earth happened to Rudy Giuliani?” sweepstakes, there are plenty of entries but no winners. Everyone wants to know why “America’s Mayor” became President Donald Trump’s favorite consigliere. Here’s one factor: He’s in the midst ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s policy blocking abortion services for pregnant teenagers in immigration custody functions as “an across-the-board ban” on access to the procedure, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 2-1 opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

The Universal Life Church Monastery, an internet church that ordains ministers online, is suing Tennessee over a new law that would bar ministers ordained electronically from performing weddings in the state. The law, passed by the Tennessee House in April, ...

His most recent victim, prosecutors say, was a woman in her 30s talking with other people at a bar in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Philip Kantor approached and offered to buy everyone a round and soon, prosecutors say, handed the woman ...

Before the birth of his second son, Derek Rotondo decided he wanted to spend more time at home – both to bond with the newborn and to more evenly split up the caregiving with his wife. The Ohio father asked ...

Less than two weeks after 3-year-old Noah was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, his mother claimed the cancer was gone. “We busted out of that hospital — with no cancer cells left to spare,” Taylor Bland-Ball wrote on Facebook on ...