Rosy Spraker was only a half-mile from the finish line of her seventh Boston Marathon when the bombs went off. She and thousands of other athletes joined victims of the blast to run and walk the last mile of the race.

Robbie Rogers is joining the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer in another step by openly gay athletes in professional sports.

Friends and family remember those who gave all to serve their nation.

For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation.

Gay rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in Moscow but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at a demonstration which went ahead despite a court order.