Sponsors of California's voter-approved gay marriage ban accused Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday of advancing a far-fetched legal theory to justify overturning it.
The state's high court ruled Monday that three Southern California parishes that left The Episcopal Church cannot retain ownership of their church buildings and property.
A stream of European leaders converged in Israel Monday to push for a truce in the violence-plagued Gaza Strip while U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, from America, continued making phone calls to numerous foreign leaders in pursuit of a cease-fire agreement.
A fire fueled by donated clothes ripped through a homeless shelter in this small Northeast Texas town early Monday, killing five residents as some tried dousing the blaze with pans of water.