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In between court rulings, the state allowed gay marriages, but then said they would not be recognized. On Friday, Attorney General Holder said 300 marriages would be valid at the federal level.

The White House said Obama urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to avoid further provocations.

The former prime minister of Norway will take over as head of the alliance in October from current Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Audie Cornish speaks with Washington resident Diana Bejvl, who presumably has lost her son, Alan, and his fiancee, Delaney Webb, in the Washington area mudslide. Her grandparents are also missing.

Moscow has long used its energy exports to win political concessions from its neighbors. In the last decade, Russia has twice threatened to cut off its natural gas supplies to Ukraine.

The recall covers 971,000 cars worldwide and includes all model years of the Chevy Cobalt, HHR, Pontiac G5, Solstice, Saturn Ion and Sky. It follows a recall of 1.6 million cars last month.

The government denies that it ever tried to recruit Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed during a gunfight with police.

Congress planned to shave $8.6 billion from the food stamps program by closing a loophole, cutting benefits to 850,000 households. But it left states an out to avoid the cuts, and many are taking it.

The narrow ruling applies to defendants who were in the appeals process when Colorado legalized the recreational use of pot.

Earlier this week, we made a joke about hipsters that caused an overwhelming reaction from listeners — especially on Twitter.