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As expected, Newark Mayor Cory Booker yesterday glided to an easy win in the Democratic primary special election to replace the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Booker told his supporters Tuesday night after he was declared the winner, “If you want someone in Washington who plays by the same old rules, find someone else. I’m going to the Senate the same …

Last night an estimated 400,000 New Yorkers tuned in as the top five Democratic mayoral candidates debated in prime time. The full debate is here, but the press is focusing in on the exchange between Anthony Weiner and Christine Quinn after the moderator invited the candidates to state their opinions on Weiner’s worthiness to be in the race at all. …

American runner Nick Symmonds yesterday won the silver medal in the 800-meter race at the World Track & Field Championships in Moscow. Speaking to the press afterwards, dedicated his win to his gay friends at home in the United States. “As much as I can speak out about it, I believe that all humans deserve equality as however God made …

He just keeps plugging away.

We heard about this last week and now it’s official. The Pentagon plans to extend to legally married same-sex couples the same privileges and programs that are provided to legally married heterosexual couples, including benefits tied to health care and housing, the official said. In addition, the official said that service members who are stationed in one of the 37 …

For the second time, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has rejected a proposed ballot measure that would repeal that state’s ban on same-sex marriage. McDaniel decided Monday that Arkansans for Equality’s proposed measure to repeal Amendment 83 was problematic over the ballot initiative’s language. Aaron Sadler, spokesman for the Office of Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, provided The Christian Post with …

The New York Times has the story: In a jolt to the Democratic campaign for mayor, a new poll suggests that Bill de Blasio, the most liberal of the leading candidates, has vaulted into first place among likely voters. The new Quinnipiac University survey of 579 likely Democratic voters in the Sept. 10 primary found Mr. de Blasio, who has …

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