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A law that denies benefits to married same-sex spouses raises federalism concerns, say the law’s challengers.

Congressman Barney Frank and his long-time partner Jim Ready were married Saturday evening in Newton, Mass., in a ceremony officiated by Governor Deval Patrick.

The American marriage, it seems, is on the rocks. The common line — true or not — is that half of all marriages in this country end in divorce.

Arranged marriages could help lower the American divorce rate, according to research by the Unification Church.

A "devoted" 79-year-old woman who was shot by police with a Taser gun after stabbing her husband 17 times is spared jail... Judge Michael Heath said: "This is a highly unusual and extremely sad case. They had been happily married for 40 years and were devoted to each other. "Caring for anyone with dementia should not be underestimated. She found herself under a great strain and contracted a depressive illness.

The number of interracial couples in the United States has reached an all-time high, with one in every 10 American opposite-sex married couples saying they're of mixed races, according to the most recent Census data released Wednesday.

Married women prefer their husbands to cook them dinner than have sex, and more than half would choose food over time in bed, an Australian survey has found.

Someone used her birth certificate to arrange bogus marriages to at least three men from other countries.

A Washington woman found out through a Facebook friend suggestion that her husband was also married to another woman.

As the number of interracial marriages in the U.S. continues to rise, so does Americans’ acceptance of them, a new Pew Research Center report finds.