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US President Barack Obama has up to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase checking account, the White House said Tuesday as a controversy deepened over the bank's $2 billion dollar losses.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has labeled Mitt Romney's president campaign 'queer' and urged the candidate to 'get used to it'. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has labeled Mitt Romney's president campaign ?queer? and urged the candidate to ?get used to it.? On her The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow said a number of events were forcing Romney to speak out on gay rights. ?I'm pretty sure this has been the gayest week in Mitt Romney's whole life,? Maddow told viewers before running down a list of gay-related news items, including Vice President Joe Biden's remarks on gay marriage on Meet the Press, passage of a gay marriage ban in North Carolina, President Obama coming out in favor of gay nuptials on ABC News, a The Washington Post piece on Romney bullying a gay student in high school, a GQ story on a Romney aide gleefully ending the political career of a Massachusetts state representative by outing her as transgender, and Romney giving the commencement speech at Christian conservative Liberty University

The politics of marriage, school bullies, a pile of cash in George Clooney's garden and a forgotten recession -- that's the flavor of a frenetic week in the drama that is the US presidential election.

US Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office for remarks seen as forcing his boss into an early endorsement of same-sex marriage.

Barack Obama became the first US president to say publicly he was in favor of same-sex marriage, in a high-stakes intervention in a pre-election debate roiling American politics.

President Barack Obama's coming out in favor of gay marriage is being cheered by gay rights groups. ?President Barack Obama's coming out in favor of gay marriage is being cheered by gay rights groups. In an interview with Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts, Obama said it was important for him to speak out on the issue. ?I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married

Catholic League President Bill Donohue has suggested President Barack Obama will next evolve to support polygamy. Catholic League President Bill Donohue has suggested President Barack Obama will next evolve to support polygamy. Reacting to the news that Obama had just become the first sitting president to endorse gay marriage, Donohue said Obama had ?fully broken with his Christian moorings.? ?The President of the United States likes the idea of Tom and Dick marrying,? Donohue said in a statement. ?He did not say whether he supports Tom, Dick and Harry marrying, or whether he is 'evolving' in that direction. Perhaps he has to consult with his mentor on this issue, Mr. Joseph Biden of Delaware.? ?The time has finally come to pass a constitutional amendment affirming marriage as an institution reserved to the only two people who can naturally produce a family, namely a man and a woman,? he added. Other social conservatives also jeered the president's move. Tony Perkins of the Christian c

Barack Obama became the first US president Wednesday to say publicly he was in favor of same-sex marriage, in a high-stakes intervention in a pre-election debate roiling American politics.

Voters in North Carolina have approved a state constitutional amendment forbidding gay marriages, civil unions and domestic partnerships, still divisive social issues in the United States.

A spokesman for President Barack Obama on Tuesday criticized Mitt Romney's record on gay rights as 'regressive'. A spokesman for President Barack Obama on Tuesday criticized Mitt Romney's record on gay rights as ?regressive.? The verbal skirmish comes just days after Vice President Joe Biden said he was ?comfortable? with gay couples marrying, prompting Romney surrogates to criticize Obama's stance on the issue. ?The President has done more to advance gay rights than any other president ? from securing hospital visitation and medical decision-making rights for gay partners, to repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, to advancing equal rights and benefits for gays and lesbians," spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement, POLITICO.com reported. "Governor Romney went from promising to be to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights to working to enshrine discrimination into the Constitution by passing a federal marriage amendment, personally funding efforts to roll back equal rights for gays and lesbi

Obama's reelection campaign has express disappointment that voters in North Carolina approved Amendment One, which bans gay marriage. President Barack Obama's reelection campaign has express disappointment that voters in North Carolina approved Amendment One, which bans gay and lesbian couples from marriage, civil unions and possibly domestic partnerships. Obama's North Carolina spokesman Cameron French said in a statement released Tuesday that the president is ?disappointed? by the outcome. ?The President has long opposed divisive and discriminatory efforts to deny rights and benefits to same sex couples,? French said. ?He believes the North Carolina measure singles out and discriminates against committed gay and lesbian couples, which is why he did not support it. President Obama has long believed that gay and lesbian couples deserve the same rights and legal protections as straight couples and is disappointed in the passage of this amendment.? After Vice President Joe Biden said on

President Barack Obama is prepping for an interview with ABC which might include questions on his stance on gay marriage. President Barack Obama is prepping for an interview with ABC which might include questions on his stance on gay marriage. The New York Times reported that Obama will sit down with Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts for a wide-ranging interview at 1:30PM on Wednesday. The paper noted that the interview was hastily arranged and speculated that the issue might be broached. White House officials have been fielding a rash of question on the president's stance since Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday said he was ?comfortable? with gay and lesbian couples marrying. Biden's remarks were followed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Monday saying he favors marriage equality. Obama's secretary of housing, Shaun Donovan, has previously stated that passage of a gay marriage law in New York made him ?proud? to be a New Yorker. Press Secretary Jay Carney has also field

The Obama administration has helped change global opinion on Iran, US Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday, pledging that Washington would use "whatever means" to keep Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

The positions of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on gay marriage are being spotlighted after Vice President Joe Biden's remarks. The positions of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on gay marriage are being spotlighted after Vice President Joe Biden's Sunday remarks on the subject. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Biden told host David Gregory that he is ?absolutely comfortable? with gay couples marrying, then added that ?The president sets the policy.? The remarks suggest that Biden was endorsing marriage equality since President Barack Obama does not, though the president does support civil unions for gay couples and is opposed to marriage bans. But in a statement released shortly after Biden's interview aired, an aide rolled back his apparent endorsement, saying the vice president's views are still ?evolving.? In an interview with CNN anchor Piers Morgan, Obama adviser David Axelrod insisted that Obama and Biden share the same views on the issue and it is Romney who dif

US Republican Senator John McCain had some advice for his party's presumptive nominee to take on President Barack Obama: choose someone you trust for vice president.

Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday frustrated gay marriage supporters as he explained away remarks that appeared to suggest he backed the institution. Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday frustrated gay marriage supporters as he explained away remarks that appeared to suggest he backed the institution. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Biden told host David Gregory that he is ?absolutely comfortable? with gay couples marrying, then added that ?The president sets the policy.? The remarks suggest that Biden was endorsing marriage equality since President Barack Obama does not, though the president does support civil unions for gay couples and is opposed to marriage bans. Biden also gave credit to the hit NBC sitcom Will & Grace for influencing society's increasing acceptance of gay rights. But in a statement released shortly after Biden's interview aired, an aide rolled back his apparent endorsement, saying the vice president's views are still ?evolving.? ?The Vice President was saying wh

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Monday publicly endorsed gay marriage. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Monday publicly endorsed gay marriage. Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Duncan was asked by Mark Halperin, ?Do you believe that same sex men and women should be able to get legally married in the United States?? After a brief pause, Duncan answered: ?Yes. I do.? (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page. Visit our video library for more videos.) Duncan is the Obama administration's second cabinet official to support marriage equality. In an interview last year with gay weekly Metro Weekly, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said that passage of a gay marriage law in New York made him proud to be a New Yorker. Duncan's remarks come a day after Vice President Joe Biden said he was ?comfortable? with gay couples marrying. Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry, responded in a statement. ?Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's an

Vice President Joe Biden, who is preparing to embark on the 2012 re-election campaign trail, suggested Sunday he might be interested in running in 2016 -- paired on a ticket with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The United States will grant Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng a visa as soon as he applies for one, and expects Beijing to stand by its promises, Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday.

US Vice President Joe Biden, who has said in the past that he opposed gay marriage, softened that stance Sunday saying in an interview he is now "absolutely comfortable" with same-sex marriage.