WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Texas state officials went to federal court Monday to defend a controversial new voter identification law, dismissing suggestions the requirement would deny hundreds of thousands of people -- many of them minorities -- access to the ballot.

(CNN) -- Episcopal priests would be allowed to conduct services blessing same-sex relationships under a policy up for final approval Tuesday at the church's national convention in Indianapolis.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama revitalized his push for holding down middle class tax rates Monday, calling on Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year.

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A woman who witnessed the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy says she has agreed to testify for Sirhan Sirhan's new defense team.

ATLANTA (CNN) -- A reporter from El Salvador who has been reporting for years about immigration issues in Atlanta, Georgia, finds himself in a position similar to that of many of the sources he covers.

(CNN) -- Forget Social Security. The third rail of American politics is acknowledging we may not be the greatest country in the world.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Antonin Scalia drew unusually critical attention during this past Supreme Court term for comments he made in court and in his writing that seemed to some more political than judicial.

Two years ago, the District of Columbia struggled to get a grip on its burgeoning HIV/AIDS cases which had reached pandemic proportions among the heterosexual population, giving the city notoriety as the leading AIDS infected jurisdiction in the nation.

When Twitter accounts "Purdue Asians" and "Kim Jong Il" (with the handles @OrientalSwag and @Purdue_Asian, respectively) started tweeting things like "I sreep for entire crass & stir get better grades than you! :D" Asian American students at Purdue found another reason to sign a petition being circulated for the establishment of an Asian/Asian American cultural center on campus.

MOAPA, Nev. (AP) -- Beyond the ancestral hunting fields and the rows of small, sparse homes, the cemetery at the Moapa River Indian Reservation sprawls across a barren hill with the tombstones of tribal members who died young.