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A recent court order filed on Monday mandates that a Vermont court decision to give custody of 7-year-old girl to one parent of a separated lesbian couple be enforceable in Virginia.

Before the first juror is selected or witness called, a decision allowing a confessed killer to argue he believes the slaying of one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers was a justified act aimed at saving unborn children has upended what most expected to be an open-and-shut case.

First Paula, now Simon. At the Television Critics Association's winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., American Idol judge Simon Cowell announced that he is leaving the show to focus on a new talent search, The X Factor.

When Manel Mira was born in 1970s Portugal, homosexuality was a crime. The Catholic Church held sway among the throngs of black-clad widows shuffling down his cobblestone alleyway. The country had a right-wing military dictatorship and a third of the population couldn't read.