Last week, billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie pledged $2.5 million to help pass a referendum on same-sex marriage in Washington State. With the donation, the Bezoses became the largest public financial backers of gay rights in the country — and the liberal answer to Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy, who made waves two weeks ago when he affirmed his company’s opposition to gay marriage.

Romney's overseas trip was marked by another questionable quote from one of the candidate's aides on Tuesday when spokesperson Rick Gorka rebuffed journalists' questions for the candidate by telling them to "Kiss my ass."

The latest budget figures from the White House predict this year’s federal budget deficit will end up at $1.2 trillion.

A man claiming to have been the boy sexually assaulted by Jerry Sandusky in a Penn State locker room shower will file a lawsuit against the university, his lawyers announced Thursday.

Fox News with the latest headline-grabbing (unconfirmed) report from Colorado: James Holmes sent a notebook "full of details about how he was going to kill people" to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before last week's mass shooting that killed 12 and injured dozens others, according to an unnamed "law enforcement source."

Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday called a Mitt Romney adviser’s comment that the Republican candidate better understands the UK-USA relationship because of a shared “Anglo-Saxon heritage” — a notion Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul insisted was “not true” — a “disturbing start” to Romney’s foreign trip.

Violent clashes between protestors and police continued Tuesday night in Anaheim, California, as officers reportedly fired rubber bullets, bean bag rounds, and pepper balls into crowds gathered outside city hall to protest alleged police brutality. Police said at least five people were arrested on suspicion of assault and resisting arrest, while a reporter from the Orange County Register was struck by a rock, according to the Los Angeles Times. Journalist Tim Pool said he was attacked by officers while he was covering the protest.

James Holmes' booby-trapped apartment had more than 30 homemade grenades and 10 gallons of gas inside, a law enforcement official who viewed video from inside the apartment told CNN late Monday night.

The presidential campaign is officially back on. After a three-day hiatus owing to the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting, President Barack Obama laid into Mitt Romney at a fundraiser here Monday night, blasting his GOP rival for taking his words out of context.

Hell hath no fury like a football fan scorned. This morning in Indianapolis, the NCAA stripped Penn State’s wins from 1998 through 2011, bombed it with a $60 million fine, yanked its scholarships, banned it from bowl games for four years, and opened the floodgates for current players to transfer. It wasn’t the death penalty. It was a life sentence. (Read the NCAA’s full statement here.)