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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal of lengthy prison sentences described as Kafkaesque because they are based on charges on which a jury found the defendants not guilty.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The clerk in Oklahoma's largest county says his office won't immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the case.

MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled the 1996 Defense Of Marriage Act unconstitutional. The ruling, passed on a 5-4 vote, grants legally married same-sex couples the right to claim federal benefits traditionally only available to opposite-sex married couples...