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In an election year that some pundits have predicted will be focused on jobs and the economy, social issues like same-sex marriage have stolen the spotlight a surprising number of times. But experts say don't expect those hot-button topics to be the ultimate markers of the 2012 cycle.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday led Justice Department tributes to former presidential adviser and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, who died at 90.

President Barack Obama's announcement that he now supports same-sex marriage came sooner than planned as a result of comments made by Vice President Joe Biden, he said in an interview broadcast Thursday.

North Carolina's newly approved constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage has sparked an effort to convince the Democratic Party to move its upcoming national convention somewhere else.

William Bennett says buried within Obama's campaign storybook ad is the ideological vision of modern liberalism

President Obama has obliterated the doubts of millions of his gay supporters, says Charles Kaiser, with a truly tranformational move to support equal marriage rights.

Richard Lugar's landslide loss in Tuesday's Indiana Republican primary isn't just a 36-year veteran getting tossed out of office before he wanted to go.

Has President Obama's stance on gay marriage changed over the years? Watch him speak on the issue in this timeline.

President Obama declares that gay marriage 'should be legal.'

President Barack Obama, who previously said his views on the issue were "evolving," said Wednesday he supports same-sex marriage.

Tim Stanley says North Carolina vote may be the latest demonstration that Americans aren't quite ready for same-sex marriage. Like the ERA and civil rights movement, it could take decades

Margaret Hoover says the tide is shifting in favor of allowing gay marriage despite Tuesday's North Carolina vote.

With longtime Republican Sen. Dick Lugar going down in defeat, Democrats were quick to paint the conservative candidate who beat him in Indiana's primary as "too extreme."

A gaffe is when a politician is caught telling the truth, the old saying goes. So it was in March when a hot microphone picked up President Obama telling his Russian counterpart that he will have "more flexibility" if he wins re-election in November.

Sen. John McCain explains why he took aim at hoops great Charles Barkley for criticizing Mitt Romney on TV.

Advocates begin their battles Wednesday to overturn a North Carolina amendment that defines marriage as solely between a man and a woman, one of about 30 states with such a ban in its constitution

CNN's Piers Morgan talks to Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, about gay marriage.

As soon as 36-year Senate veteran Richard Lugar finished his concession speech Tuesday, he walked off the stage, out the back door and into his car. But he left behind something unusual and -- in the annals of politics -- somewhat extraordinary.

The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee expressed dismay that someone leaked information about a double agent who infiltrated al Qaeda and helped foil a plot to blow up a U.S.-bound plane.

A constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in North Carolina, even though state law already forbids such unions, appeared headed for passage following a Tuesday referendum.