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Opponents of gay marriage are challenging notions of judicial neutrality in a San Francisco courtroom on Monday. They're arguing that a federal judge who struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage last year was biased because he's in a same-sex relationship.

After two days of being handcuffed in a tiny holding cell and desperate for food and water, Daniel Chong said he realized he had to stop wondering when he'd be let out and start thinking about how to stay alive.

The Supreme Court suggested today it could find a way out of the case over California's ban on same-sex marriage without issuing a major national ruling.

Construction projects at airports have stopped and 4,000 employees of the Federal Aviation Administration are furloughed, all because Congress couldn't agree on an extension of the agency's authority to operate. Fueling the impasse is a debate over subsidies that help pay for service to remote airports.

The investigation into the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon is widening, with authorities looking at about a dozen people to see if they might have helped the two main suspects either before or after the attack, law enforcement officials familiar with the probe tell NPR's Dina Temple-Raston.

Republican Mark Sanford's bid to salvage a political career and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch's effort to start one collided in a vigorous debate Monday just eight days before South Carolina voters decide who to send to Washington.

Obama's big health care win means he can campaign more boldly on the law as a major achievement.

Halloween is scaring up lots of business at costume shops in San Diego this month.

Last year, Congress and President Obama passed a law providing insurance coverage for abortion for military women in the case of rape or incest. Will the Peace Corps inspire a similar truce on the same issue?

Ex-Mayor Maureen O'Connor Takes Deferred Prosecution in Misappropriation Case