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Attorney General Eric Holder has for the first time directed Justice Department employees to give same-sex married couples “full and equal recognition, to the greatest extent under the law,” a move with far-ranging consequences for how such couples are treated in federal courtrooms and proceedings.

The U.S. Supreme Court is delving into the technology-versus-privacy debate, agreeing to hear two cases that test whether police making an arrest may search cellphones without a warrant.

Utah is instructing state officials to put services and paperwork for same-sex couples on hold, reflecting a recent U.S. Supreme Court order that halted gay marriages in the state.

The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court not to extend a temporary injunction given to a group of Colorado nuns who want to be exempt from some rules in the new health care law.

A federal judge in Washington says the National Security Agency’s program for bulk phone record collection violates Americans’ reasonable expectation of privacy.

The case is about a Native American girl who was adopted by a couple in South Carolina but who has been living with her biological father for more than a year and a half.

A special federal surveillance court has reaffirmed the constitutionality of a National Security Agency program that collects data about most of the nation’s phone traffic. NPR’s Larry Abramson reports that the court says the records of phone metadata are not protected by the Fourth Amendment.

Two months after she joined a landmark Supreme Court decision that the federal government must recognize gay marriages, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was officiating such a wedding.

The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that it is extending full benefits to the same-sex spouses of service members and civilian employees.

House Republicans, who defended in court the Defense of Marriage Act only to see it , have now decided not to try to defend a similar law that denies veterans’ benefits to married, same-sex couples.