Politics

In a Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013 photo, Rob Thomas, left, and Joe Strong join guests in a line dance following their wedding ceremony at the Nicollet County Courthouse in St. Peter, Minn. Their marriage was the first same-sex ceremony to be conducted in Nicollet County, located in south-central Minnesota. Same-sex couples received nearly 1 in 3 marriage licenses issued in Minnesota since they were allowed to wed, The Associated Press found in a statewide survey of the first month's impact of the new gay marriage law. (AP Photo/The Mankato Free Press, John Cross)

In this photo taken Monday Aug. 5, 2013 Associated Press Newsman Steve Peoples is seen in Wolfeboro, N.H.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)

President Barack Obama poses with retiring AP photographer Ron Edmonds, his wife, Grace, and daughter, Ashley, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 30, 2009. (Photo courtesy the White House, Lawrence Jackson)