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PORTSMOUTH, Va (Reuters) - Virginia groups opposed to discriminating against would-be adoptive and foster parents based on factors including sexuality and religion said on Thursday they may sue after a state board's decision.

New regulations -- approved 5-1 at a Virginia Board of Social Services meeting on Wednesday -- to take effect on May 1 will allow state-licensed adoption agencies to consider ...

Steve Jobs never sought a relationship with his biological father, a Reno casino manager and former Las Vegas resident. Nevertheless, the pair shared at least one handshake before they knew they were related.

In his biography of the late Apple CEO, author Walter Isaacson writes that the pair met briefly when Jobs' biological father, Abdulfattah John Jandali, ran a restaurant ...

Only 60 babies were adopted in Britain last year despite an increasing number of children being taken into care, official figures show.

While thousands of children are being looked after in care homes or foster families, the number being adopted continues to decline, in a trend described by campaigners as "deeply worrying".

The Department for Education figures show 3,050 ...

CNN anchor Don Lemon says he's likely to adopt a child, but only if the kid comes with a nanny.

Lemon came out gay during a May interview with The New York Times, becoming the third high-profile openly ...

RENO - Somehow it has escaped almost everyone's notice for decades that the father of the man who transformed Apple Inc. from a tech has-been to one of the world's most valuable companies has been quietly living in Nevada.

The resignation of Steve Jobs last week prompted a round of media retrospectives on his storied career. It also snatched ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The trial of an Anchorage mother accused of abusing her adopted Russian-born son got underway on Wednesday as jurors watched a videotape of her pouring hot sauce into the boy's mouth.

The footage, shot last October for an episode of "Dr. Phil" that touched off a furor in the United States and Russia, also shows Jessica ...

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Five couples claim an international adoption agency that promised each a baby from Guatemala scammed them in a "bait and switch" scheme and are suing under a federal law more often used against mobsters and drug dealers.

The lawsuit against Main Street Adoption Services, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was filed under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization ...

Rod Stewart has become a father for the eighth time at the age of 66, to a baby boy named Aiden.

Stewart's wife, Penny Lancaster, gave birth on Wednesday to Aiden, who weighed 7 pounds and 12 ounces, according to a statement on the singer's website.

"Mother and baby are healthy and blissfully happy," the statement said.

Stewart ...

LOS ANGELES - If only every daytime talk show host had a long-lost half sister.

Oprah Winfrey scored her best ratings in nearly six years with Monday's show during which Winfrey revealed that she had a half-sister she never knew.

The installment of Winfrey's daytime talker averaged a 9.6 household rating (according to metered market weighted averages). That ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman who raised a child who went missing from a Harlem hospital 23 years ago as her own has confessed to the 1987 kidnapping of the baby, court documents revealed on Monday.

According to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. federal court in Manhattan, Ann Pettway admitted to taking the victim from a Harlem hospital ...