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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he is still wrestling with whether gay couples should have the right to marry, now that a new law will allow them to serve openly in combat. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Less than four years after a storybook wedding in Paris, Eva Longoria filed court papers Wednesday to divorce French basketball star Tony Parker, citing irreconcilable differences. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christina Aguilera filed for divorce from her husband of five years on Thursday, two days after announcing the couple had separated. (more)

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s newest laws are meant to make Internet dating safer, further protect victims and witnesses in domestic abuse cases, and require landlords in New York City to come clean about bedbugs when leasing apartments. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman says in a magazine interview that he is gay. (more)

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — For the first time all summer, Tiger Woods showed up at a PGA Tour event knowing that his day would not include phone calls from a lawyer or divorce documents to approve. (more)

Divorced. Single dad. Golf game still to be determined. (more)

In October 2008, racing against California’s gay marriage ban, Chloe and Frankie Frankeny wed legally in San Francisco with one chore already done: Chloe had taken her wife’s name two years before. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal judge who struck down California’s gay-marriage ban said Thursday that same-sex weddings can resume next week unless an appeals court intervenes before then. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who twice vetoed legislation that would have legalized same-sex marriage, has surprised gay rights supporters by urging a federal judge to allow gay couples to resume marrying in the state without further delay. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker has always been characterized as a conservative with libertarian leanings. But after he struck down California’s voter-approved gay marriage ban this week, he was accused by some of being something else entirely: a gay activist. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a law allowing same-sex marriages in Mexico City is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by federal prosecutors who argued it violated the charter’s guarantees to protect the family. (more)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah Supreme Court decision that overturns polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs’ 2007 criminal conviction won’t automatically make him a free man. Even if Utah doesn’t retry him, Texas and federal prosecutors are waiting to move forward with their own cases. (more)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina legalized same-sex marriage Thursday, becoming the first country in Latin America to declare that gays and lesbians have all the legal rights, responsibilities and protections that marriage brings to heterosexual couples. (more)

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Iceland’s prime minister made history last week when she wed her girlfriend, becoming the world’s first head of government to enter a gay marriage. (more)

Forgot to de-friend your wife on Facebook while posting vacation shots of your mistress? Her divorce lawyer will be thrilled. (more)

TORONTO (AP) — As Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip waved to the crowd after a 2005 visit, a tall, fit officer stood next to them. He saluted the royal couple, and flew them home to Britain. (more)

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s conservative president says he has decided to ratify a law allowing gay marriage in the predominantly Catholic country. (more)

MEXICO CITY — Killings of gays and lesbians have risen in Mexico despite a government tolerance campaign and a law legalizing same-sex marriage in the capital, according to a report released Thursday by a coalition of civic groups. (more)

PARIS  — The burqa, or face-covering veil, is getting all the attention in the debate over Muslim immigrants in France. But another controversial tradition among some immigrants is less noticed and far more widespread: Polygamy. (more)