Italian parliament delivered a victory for the rights of same-sex couples on Wednesday, voting to approve a bill…
Native American tribes in Oklahoma will grow milkweed and other plants on their land to help monarch butterflies…
A Filipina transgender woman, Geraldine Roman, made history today for being the first out trans politician to be…
White Americans can expect to live longer than their black counterparts–that's been the case since the beginning of…
A New York state task force has ordered several nail salons in New York to pay workers a total of almost $2 million…
London is set to elect Sadiq Khan to be its first Muslim mayor today, a significant victory in the context of…
President Obama was in Flint, Mich., yesterday for the first time since declaring a federal emergency over the…
A team of scientists in England have found that even in many of the most polluted cities in the world, cycling or…
President Obama visited Flint, Mich., today for the first time since declaring a federal emergency in the town where…
A ten-year-old Finnish boy won $10,000 from Facebook after finding a coding flaw in Instagram that allowed him to…
In April, the Keystone Pipeline was shut down after an oil leak was discovered in South Dakota. The pipeline…
Following the demise of a Mississippi law that was the last in the country to ban gay and lesbian couples from…
America could learn something from an Italian court's decision that could help people who are homeless and starving…
Last Monday, Abul Kalam Azad woke up to nightmarish news. From his apartment in Montreal, he read it online first:…
After years of criticism from animal rights groups, the Ringling Bros. Circus is retiring the elephant show that's…
John Wayne, the actor best known for being Hollywood's quintessential movie cowboy, was also pretty racist. This…
Robert Bates, a 74-year-old volunteer reserve sheriff's deputy in Oklahoma, fatally shot Eric Harris, a 44-year-old…
A Baltimore police officer shot a 13-year-old boy Wednesday afternoon after seeing him with a replica gun, local…
Last night, Baltimore ended the mayoral campaign of civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson, after a brief and widely…