WATCH: Changing Traditional Marriage Would Put Our Culture in Danger

Efforts are underway in nation’s capital to wipe out the Defense of Marriage Act — the federal law that defines marriage the traditional way.

House Rejects Balanced Budget Amendment

Rejecting the idea Congress can’t control its spending impulses, the House turned back a Republican proposal Friday to amend the Constitution to dam the rising flood of federal red ink. Democrats — and a few GOP lawmakers — said damage from the balanced-budget mandate would outweigh any benefits.

Iran Conducts Air-Defense Drills

Exercise in east Iran aimed at ‘heightening level of preparedness amid possible threats to airspace, nuclear centers’.

First Lady Obama Rallies Women Voters for 2012

President Obama’s campaign is rounding up an army of female activists to rekindle the enthusiasm among women that helped propel Obama to victory in 2008 and may be even more vital to his re-election in 2012.

First lady Michelle Obama meets military families at a hiring fair sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for service men and women, veterans and military families at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

New Rules May Cause Some Colleges to Pull Online Programs

Online college students in Massachusetts, Arkansas, and Minnesota soon could have more limited school options as colleges and universities plan to withdraw their online programs from those states in response to a much-debated set of regulations.

Son says Joe Paterno Has ‘Treatable’ Form of Lung Cancer

Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno has a treatable form of lung cancer, his son Scott told the AP in a statement Friday.

After Sale to Catholic Church, the Future of Crystal Cathedral Is Uncertain

The Roman Catholic Church is about to buy a beacon of Protestant televangelism.

The Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., known for its Hour of Power broadcasts, is being sold to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange.