AP - Even as same-sex couples across California begin making plans to tie the knot, opponents are redoubling their efforts to make sure wedding bells never again ring for gay couples in the nation's most populous state.
AP - President Bush is appealing to oil-rich Saudi Arabia to increase production just as oil prices have hit another record high.
AP - Construction of new homes posted the biggest increase in more than two years in April, a rare spot of good news amid the worst downturn in housing in more than two decades.
AP - An election runoff between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will be held June 27, the electoral commission said in an announcement published Friday.
AP - A strong aftershock sparked landslides Friday near the epicenter of this week's powerful earthquake, while some survivors were pulled from rubble after being buried for four days.
AP - Sorry, Sen. Clinton. Michigan and Florida can't save your campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states' banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady's best-case scenario.
AP - Ellen DeGeneres is putting the California Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage into action she and Portia de Rossi plan to wed, DeGeneres announced during a taping of her talk show.
AP - Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius has won an appeal to compete for a place in the Beijing Olympics.