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Increasingly, more Americans think interracial marriage not just acceptable, but socially 'good'

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A new study from the Pew Research Center finds that the majority of Americans support interracial marriage and about 45 percent think that it's socially good when interracial marriage happens — a startling turn around in the 45 years since the Supreme Court struck down laws banning interracial marriage.
Published: 21 February, 2012 08:30:00
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Congress sends unemployment, payroll tax cut extension to President Obama's desk

After a couple months of wrangling, Congress has sent a bill to President Obama that extends through the end of the year payroll tax cuts, unemployment benefits and a fix in reimbursement rates for doctors doing work on Medicare patients....
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Republicans running deceptive attack ads, slamming each other

A Super PAC that's backing Mitt Romney is airing an attack ad that a public policy professor says is beyond misleading. But Rick Santorum, the target of that ad, has responded with his own attack ad that also stretches the truth....
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Santorum surging in Michigan as Romney touts his status as state's native son

Mitt Romney is struggling to connect with Michigan voters, his polling numbers indicate. Rick Santorum has surged to a big lead as Romney comes to the state where he was born and grew up....
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Pew report calls U.S. voter registration system 'inaccurate, costly and inefficient'

A report from the Pew Center on the States documented how the U.S. voter registration system, with all its faults and failings, cost 2 million votes in 2008. It's also light years behind many other democracies, in terms of enabling eligible voters to vote....
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'Violence interrupters' in Chicago aim to change behaviors of perpetrators

Ameena Matthews is a "violence interrupter" for CeaseFire, an organization in Chicago aiming to stop murders and shootings in the community. She and other interrupters are reformed gang members and the subject of the 2011 documentary "The Interrupters."...
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Greece on fire as protesters decry government's decision on austerity measures

Some 40 buildings were set ablaze as protesters in Athens, Greece, rallied in the streets to demand the government stop imposing more austerity measures on the country -- conditions that European finance ministers have insisted on in order to release the latest round of bailout funding....
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Obama announces compromise on contraceptive coverage by religious organizations

President Barack Obama on Friday said his administration will grant a broader exemption for religious organization that have an objection to providing contraceptive services to women as part of their health plans. The announcement comes amid a brewing controversy over his administration's proposal to grant a much narrower exemption....
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Venezuelan opposition parties organizing joint effort to oust Chavez

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is running for his fourth term in office this year but, for the first time, he's facing an opposition that has unified in opposition to his re-election....
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Obama grants 10 states waivers from strictest provisions of No Child Left Behind

No Child Left Behind is about a decade old. It's been up for renewal for 10 years. But as Congress has dead-locked over proposals to modify or reform the controversial law, President Barack Obama on Thursday issued waivers from its strictest requirements to 10 states....
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