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President Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebellus, faces a raft of lawsuits from Catholics unhappy with his administration's contraception mandate.

The Catholic contraception-mandate mega-lawsuit: A guide

Notre Dame and 42 other Catholic institutions sue the Obama administration, arguing that they're being forced to facilitate behavior they find "intrinsically immoral"

 
Brazilian-born, Singapore-based Eduardo Saverin may have renounced his American citizenship, but he could still pay a "tax exit" fee of up to $150 million.

Why are conservatives defending a billionaire who abandoned America?

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, widely derided for renouncing his U.S. citizenship before the company's lucrative IPO, is finding powerful allies on the Right

 
Edward Morrissey

Edward Morrissey: The Catholic mega-lawsuit is a 2012 nightmare for Obama

Dozens of religious organizations sue the administration over a contraception mandate. Not exactly what the president was hoping for heading into November

 
President Obama with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick at a campaign fundraising event in Boston: Obama's opponent Mitt Romney and the groups backing the GOP candidate have outraised Obama $402 million to $340 million.

Who's winning the 2012 presidential money race?

The assumption was that Obama would have a big fundraising advantage over Romney, but GOP-friendly super PACs are proving prognosticators wrong

 
A middle school student from Texas was recently placed on in-school suspension for shaving the image of his favorite NBA player, Matt Bonner, on his hair.

The 7 dumbest reasons schoolkids get suspended

A middle schooler is suspended for an elaborate haircut, a Florida teen for hugging a friend, New York high schoolers for Tebowing, and more

 
George Zimmerman is led into a courtroom for his bond hearing on April 20 in Sanford, Fla. While Alan Dershowitz wants the murder charge dropped, other analysts think the truth has yet to be uncovered.

Should prosecutors drop the murder charges against George Zimmerman?

Prominent legal scholar Alan Dershowitz says that newly released evidence destroys the prosecution's case against Trayvon Martin's killer

 
Dharun Ravi wipes away tears during his sentencing Monday: While the judge could have made an example of the former Rutgers student, Ravi will instead serve only 30 days in jail.

Tyler Clementi case: Is Dharun Ravi's jail sentence too lenient?

After being convicted of a "bias crime" for spying on his gay roommate Clementi, who committed suicide in 2010, Ravi is sentenced to only 30 days in prison

 
Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital has become the go-to focus of Team Obama's attack ads.

Attacking Mitt Romney's Bain Capital: Fair game?

Obama is relentlessly going after the private equity firm founded by his GOP challenger, and some say the Democrat's punches are hitting below the belt

 
Al Capone may have been the king of Alcatraz, but he never had fresh-brewed coffee or his own recording studio like the inmates at Norway's Halden prison.

The jail where every prisoner gets a flat-screen TV and private shower

In Norway's Halden prison, murderers, rapists, and pedophiles live in relative luxury, and the results are impressive. Would the U.S. ever pamper inmates this way?

 
Robert Shrum

Robert Shrum: Bain is just chapter one in the Book of Romney

Republicans are desperate to declare Obama's attacks on Mitt's business background off-limits. But in the life of Romney, vulture capitalism is an inescapable theme

 
NAACP CEO Ben Jealous during an annual convention last year: "Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law," Jealous said in a weekend statement.

The NAACP's gay-marriage endorsement: Is black homophobia overstated?

The powerful civil rights organization's Ben Jealous joins other influential black voices — including President Obama and Jay-Z — and strongly backs gay rights

 
Hawaii has received so many requests for President Obama's birth certificate that it passed a law in 2010 essentially exempting Obama from the state's public-records rules.

Will Arizona keep President Obama off the 2012 ballot?

Arizona's secretary of state insists that he's not a birther... while simultaneously threatening to bar Obama from the November ballot over birth certificate suspicions

 
Newark Mayor Cory Booker speaks at a conference held by the American Federation for Children on May 4: After criticizing President Obama for attacking Mitt Romney's private equity days, Booker took to Twitter to clarify his statements.

Did Cory Booker sandbag Obama by calling the Bain attacks 'nauseating'?

The Newark mayor went on Meet the Press, purportedly to help President Obama's re-election effort. He may have done more harm than good

 
In the first scene of Mitt Romney's new campaign ad "Day One," he promises to approve the Keystone pipeline to "create thousands of jobs that Obama blocked."

Romney's 'Day One': Does his first ad set him apart from Obama?

With a TV commercial airing in swing states, Mitt Romney declares that he'd begin his presidency by reversing key Obama policies

 
In the year that ended July 2011, minority births reached a historic 50.4 percent, with black babies comprising 15 percent of the newborn population.

The historic growth in non-white births: 4 consequences

As of July, 2011, fewer white babies were being born in the U.S. than minority babies. What does our changing national makeup mean for our future?

 

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