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Byline: Hunter Schwarz WASHINGTON - Opponents of same-sex marriage have commonly invoked the 'slippery slope' argument for why it shouldn't be legalized. Once you let gay people marry, the argument [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz The government of Austin, Texas, came under fire this week after it was revealed that its city manager's office held a two-hour training meeting in March to [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz WASHINGTON - Rand Paul launched 2016 presidential campaign and online campaign store Tuesday, and it is without a doubt, unlike any online presidential campaign store in the [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz WASHINGTON - When Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., steps down from the Senate in early 2017, Mormonism will lose its highest-ranking elected official - and the most high-profile [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz WASHINGTON - Sen. Ted Cruz said something this weekend you will basically never hear a politician say: Unlimited campaign contributions are good. At a Republican event in [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz When it comes to marijuana, the majority of young Republicans are far close to the Democratic view than they are to older members of their own party. [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz Americans must be vigilant in light of a terror threat calling for attacks at malls such as the Mall of America in Minnesota, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown will become the first openly bisexual governor in U.S. history when Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber resigns Wednesday. An open LGBT governor [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz With the rise of license plate tracking technology used by police, lawmakers in several states are proposing bills to curtail how long data can be stored. In [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz Attorneys general from 26 states filed a federal lawsuit against San Francisco on Thursday over an ordinance requiring locked storage for handguns, arguing it threatens the Second [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz Police Commissioner Bill Bratton called frustration in New York and across the country surrounding policing the 'tip of the iceberg' during an appearance on Sunday on NBC's [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz A Ferguson Police Department public relations officer has been put on administrative leave over his response to the destruction of a memorial to Michael Brown, the teenager [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz WASHINGTON - Hunger and homelessness are on the rise in cities across the country, and Congress isn't helping, the U.S. Conference of Mayors said in a report [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz WASHINGTON - Congress reauthorized legislation this week that will require states to report the number of people killed during an arrest or while in police custody. 'You [...]

Byline: Reid Wilson, Hunter Schwarz, Niraj Chokshi and Abby Ohlheiser WASHINGTON - Couples in states affected by Monday's Supreme Court decision to allow same-sex marriages in several states had to [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed a bill Thursday prohibiting forced sterilization in prisons. A report last year said that female inmates at facilities were being coercively [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz WASHINGTON - Lawmakers weighed in on U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq, with Democrats supporting President Obama's agenda of limited involvement while Republicans said more [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz Mesa, Ariz., is the most conservative big city in the country, according to a study of representation in municipal governments that included the 51 U.S. cities with [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz Twitter turns 9 years old this weekend. The social network has grown into something used by every U.S. governor, senator, and most House members, and it's a [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie defended his state's mandatory 21-day quarantine for all returning medical workers who treated Ebola in West African countries, saying he believes it [...]

Byline: Hunter Schwarz Arkansas voters will decide in November whether to standardize their state's alcohol laws, currently a patchwork of wet and dry counties, after the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Amendment [...]