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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday about keeping secret the names of people who signed a petition to repeal Washington state’s gay rights law, suggesting citizens cannot always hide behind anonymity if they want to be heard. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The appointment of Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Richard Walker to the bench was held up for two years during the late 1980s in part because he had angered gay rights activists. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is making it easier for Haitian orphans being adopted by Americans to enter the United States. (more)

BLANTYRE, MALAWI (AP) — Malawi’s government said Monday that it is unmoved by international criticism of the trial of a gay couple charged with unnatural acts and gross indecency, felonies for which they could be imprisoned for up to 14 years. (more)

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch adoption agencies and the government have sent a chartered plane to Haiti to airlift out around 100 children who were in the process of being adopted by parents here before an earthquake shattered the country last week. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court decided Friday it would get involved for the second time this week in a case in which opponents of gay rights fear they will be harassed if their views are made public. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Columbia University social scientist says California’s voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriages contributed to the social stigma that makes gay men and lesbians more susceptible to depression, suicide and substance abuse. (more)

U.S. families are pleading for emergency visas and other help that will allow them to bring home the orphans they planned to adopt from earthquake-stricken Haiti. (more)

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge in Ohio has ordered two years’ probation for an immigration lawyer who illegally married to gain permanent U.S. residence. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gay couples will likely be able to apply March 2 for marriage licenses in the nation’s capital. (more)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Steve Wynn, the billionaire chief executive of casino operator Wynn Resorts Ltd., is officially divorced for the second time from his wife, Elaine. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has indefinitely blocked cameras from covering the high-profile federal court trial on the constitutionality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Supreme Court indefinitely blocks cameras from covering California gay marriage trial. (more)

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — An attorney for a Colorado woman says Texas authorities don’t believe she had any “criminal involvement” in telephone calls that may have triggered a raid on a Texas polygamist group. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawyers in a case seeking to overturn California’s gay marriage ban are presenting statements by a proponent of the measure saying gay rights activists would try to legalize sex with children if same-sex marriages were legal. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While the issue of same-sex marriage is widely expected to work its way to the U.S. Supreme Court over the next few years, another thorny legal question raised in the case has already landed before the high court: cameras in federal courtrooms. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Yale professor testifying in a case challenging California’s same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday that the 2008 campaign to pass Proposition 8 played on stereotypes historically used to portray “homosexuals as perverts who prey on young children, out to entice straight people into sick behavior.” (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — About 100 people are demonstrating outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco as the trial for California’s gay marriage ban begins. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Supreme Court blocks broadcast of trial on California’s ban of gay marriage (more)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage gets under way in San Francisco on Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses. (more)