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**FILE** Kelly Bryson, left, and her wife Erika Knott, right, participate in a celebration rally with their children, William, Knott, 7, and Jeremy Knott, 6, right, in Jackson Square in New Orleans, Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Legally married to her longtime partner in Canada in 2007, Bryson is talking about a second wedding, in the United States this time, in light of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down of a law denying federal benefits to married gay couples. Same sex marriage and civil unions remain illegal in Louisiana. The full implications of the DOMA decision were not entirely clear for people living outside the 13 states where gay marriage is recognized. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A team of Baytown, Texas, firefighters provided a little extra support for the grieving family of an Air Force veteran who died of a heart attack last week. (KHOU)
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Support on social media and the Salt Lake City area is swelling for an 20-year-old white man who was shot and killed by police last month. (Facebook)
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FILE - In a March 17, 2006 file photo, members of the Irish-American gay community protest on Fifth Avenue against the exclusion of Irish and Irish-American gays people from marching in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade Friday, in New York. Organizers of the world's largest St. Patrick's Day Parade say they're ending a ban and allowing a gay group to march under its own banner for the first time. The parade committee, in a statement made available to The Associated Press, said on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, that OUT@NBCUniversal, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender support group at the company that broadcasts the parade, would be marching up Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on March 17 under an identifying banner. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File)
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President Obama is pondering more unilateral steps on immigration. He said the moves are justified by a broken system and the need to keep families together in the U.S. (Associated Press)
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In this Jan. 3, 2013 photo, a "Pension Promise" sign is seen as Illinois state union members and supporters rally in support for fair pension reform in the at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield Ill. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced what could be a significant advance on pension reform, saying the powerful House speaker was willing to forgo the dicey issue of teachers retirement costs in order to fix the worst-in-the-nation pension deficit. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis (left) registers for her ballot during a strike authorization vote at a high school in Chicago in 2012. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn pushed through legislation aimed at overhauling the pension fund last year, but organized labor brought a court challenge to stymie that process. (Associated Press)
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remembrances: Worker Victor Bonilla pulls off protective material to reveal large glass panels of inscriptions at the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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defender: Some Republicans — most notably Sen. Jeff Sessions — have long argued an immigration deal leaves American workers worse off. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said that having millions of illegal aliens living in the shadows and haunted by fear of deportation makes them vulnerable to exploitation by employers. "Those undocumented workers are used to drive down wages for every American" and have created "a major drag on our economy." (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, said he thinks an American jihadists fighting with Islamic State militants should be exiled from the country, but some conservatives say the militants should be stripped of their U.S. citizenship for joining the extremist group. (Associated Press)
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Kody Brown and his four wives sued Utah in 2011 after a county prosecutor threatened to charge them under the state's bigamy law. A federal judge in Utah this week issued a final ruling that strikes down parts of the state's anti-polygamy law. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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WASHINGTON, DC - August 28, 2014: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Leon Rodriguez administered the Oath of Allegiance to 30 citizenship candidates from 28 countries as part of a special naturalization ceremony held at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. The ceremony was held at the memorial in commemoration of the 51st anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech. (Eva Russo/Special to The Washington Times)
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WASHINGTON, DC - August 28, 2014: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Leon Rodriguez administered the Oath of Allegiance to 30 citizenship candidates from 28 countries, including Azino Odhomi, of Nigeria, as part of a special naturalization ceremony held at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. The ceremony was held at the memorial in commemoration of the 51st anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech. (Eva Russo/Special to The Washington Times)
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WASHINGTON, DC - August 28, 2014: Jonathan Jarvis, Director of the National Park Service, gives the welcoming remarks before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Leon Rodriguez administered the Oath of Allegiance to 30 citizenship candidates from 28 countries as part of a special naturalization ceremony held at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. The ceremony was held at the memorial in commemoration of the 51st anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech. (Eva Russo/Special to The Washington Times)
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WASHINGTON, DC - August 28, 2014: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Leon Rodriguez administered the Oath of Allegiance to 30 citizenship candidates from 28 countries, including PFC Anthony Diego Pena Medina, of Peru, as part of a special naturalization ceremony held at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. The ceremony was held at the memorial in commemoration of the 51st anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech. (Eva Russo/Special to The Washington Times)
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Elizabeth Warren, center, Special Asst. to the Treasury Secretary on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, speaks during a photo opportunity on the occasion of the anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Bill as Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., left, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., 2nd left, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, 2nd right, and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. right, listen on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 20, 2011.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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National Edition News cover for August 28, 2014 - Bureaucrats gone wild? Elizabeth Warren, center, Special Asst. to the Treasury Secretary on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, speaks during a photo opportunity on the occasion of the anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Bill as Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., left, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., 2nd left, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, 2nd right, and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. right, listen on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 20, 2011.(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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Seeking asylum: Migrants and activists scuffle with police after authorities started to clear out makeshift camps in Calais, France on the English Channel on May 28, 2014. Officials blame a British-French pact for burdening the city with immigrants seeking British asylum. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Angela Martin is questioned by Congressman Patrick T. McHenry, Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, about the alleged discrimination and retaliation she faced at the CFPB. (youtube)
