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A Venezuelan Embassy worker at a monthly service for the sick at a Catholic church in Regla, Cuba, shows support for Hugo Chavez, his country's ailing president hospitalized in Havana and unable to attend his inauguration Thursday. (Associated Press)

Chavez will miss his swearing-in, raising questions from opposition

By Fabiola Sanchez - Associated Press

**FILE** This photo shows the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington on Oct. 8, 2010. Seated from left to right are: Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Standing, from left are: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr., and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. (Associated Press)

Supreme Court justices refuse challenge to stem-cell policy

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this March 13, 2012, file photo, Indian scientists work inside a laboratory of the Research and Development Centre of Natco Pharma Ltd. in Hyderabad, India. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)

Indian court to rule on generic drug industry

By Nirmala George - Associated Press

Indian court to rule on generic drug industry

By NIRMALA GEORGE - Associated Press

** FILE ** Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (left) holds up a copy of the Venezuelan Constitution as Vice President Nicolas Maduro looks on during a televised speech at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office, Marcelo Garcia)

Disputes brewing in Venezuela over Chavez’s inauguration

By Christopher Toothaker and Ian James - Associated Press

Injunction lifted on home contractor’s online critic

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

Indian women carrying signs demanding “Justice” and “Respect” march to the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi on Wednesday to demand change in the way crimes against women are treated. The march was part of the reaction to the Dec. 16 gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old university student on a bus. A petition to be considered Thursday asks that legislators charged with crimes against women be suspended. (Associated Press)

Legislators in sexual-assault cases under fire

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Illustration Regulations by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

MAY: Regulators can’t be trusted to self-regulate

By Randolph J. May

Illustration by Donna Grethen

UPTON: States should have Medicaid flexibility

By Rep. Fred Upton

UPI FILE Robert Bork (center) is shown with his wife and former solicitor general Theodore Olson in 2005. **FILE PHOTO**

OLSON: Remembering Robert Bork, a great American

By Theodore B. Olson - The Washington Times

Illustration Judicial Activism by John Camejo for The Washington Times

LUCAS: Homosexual ‘marriage’ judicial activism

By James W. Lucas

The Washington Times

LARKIN: Robert Bork, an original

By Paul Larkin

World Briefs: New efforts launched to engage Iran

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Gun owners and supporters participate in an Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day rally at the Capitol in Springfield in March 2012. (Associated Press)

Court ends Illinois ban on concealed weapons

By Don Babwin - Associated Press

“You can release an innocent person from prison but you can't release them from the grave,” said Randy Steidl, a former death row inmate in Illinois. (Associated Press)

States put brakes on capital punishment

By David Hill - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Feb. 18, 2010 photo shows former House Majority Leader Dick Armey speaking in Washington. Eased out with an $8 million payout provided by an influential GOP fundraiser, Armey says he has left a conservative Tea Party group, FreedomWorks, because of an internal split over the group's future direction. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Inside Politics: Former tea party leader blames GOP for setbacks

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this file photo from Tuesday, June 17, 2008, Curt Garman, left, and Richard Looke hold hands as they look for a quiet spot to hold their wedding at City Hall in San Francisco. The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, to hear the appeal of a ruling that struck down Proposition 8, the state’s measure that banned same sex marriages. The highly anticipated decision by the court means same-sex marriages will not resume in California any time soon. The justices likely will not issue a ruling until spring of next year. A federal appeals court ruled in February that Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. But the court delayed implementing the order until same-sex marriage opponents proponents could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Gay marriage factions pin hopes on Supreme Court win

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

FILE - This Dec. 17, 2010 file photo shows Karen Golinski, right, hugging her wife Amy Cunninghis as they pose for a photograph outside of a federal court building in San Francisco. The fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court. Three weeks after voters in three states backed it, the justices meet Friday to decide whether they should deal sooner rather than later with the idea that the Constitution gives people the right to marry regardless of a couple's sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Supreme Court will hear gay marriage cases

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

**FILE** Gay-marriage supporters outside the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center in Sacramento, Calif., listen during a news conference on the Proposition 8 decision on Feb. 7, 2012. (Associated Press/The Sacramento Bee)

Supreme Court still mulling whether to hear suits about gay marriage

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Oct. 18, 2012, file photo shows Edith Windsor interviewed at the offices of the New York Civil Liberties Union, in New York. The fight over gay marriage is shifting from the ballot box to the Supreme Court. Three weeks after voters in three states backed it, the justices meet Friday to decide whether they should deal sooner rather than later with the idea that the Constitution gives people the right to marry regardless of a couple's sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Gay marriage before Supreme Court? Cases weighed

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press