Social Issues

For millions of Americans who get their health insurance through their job, autumn brings not only falling leaves and cooler breezes, but also difficult choices. That's because it's the time when many employe...

Marisol Valles, who studies criminology in Mexico's violent city of Ciudad Juarez, took charge of the police force in the neighbouring municipality of Praxedis G. Guerrero near El Paso, Texas, just days before...

Move over Christine O'Donnell and Sarah Palin - here comes Jimmy McMillan. McMillan is running for Governor of New York on "The Rent is Too Damn High Party" ticket.And, he means business. McMillan schooled his ...

 "cult-like" church group  of 13 Salvadorans -- including eight children --led by Reyna Chicas is missing in southern California after leaving behind notes indicating plans to commit mass suicide, authorities...

Even more Americans don't have regular access to healthy food than previously believed. Based on studies from 2008, new research from the Journal of the American Dietetic Association shows that 15 percent of...

A South Carolina Senator is making headlines after being pictured dressed as a confederate soldier and posing with two Black men dressed as slaves.A Republican women's conference took place last weekend in Char...

Were you offended by Will.i.am’s Blackface performance during Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards Pre-Show? According to the Black Eyed Peas frontman, you shouldn’t be. The Black Eyed Peas star prov...

Terry Jones, the controversial pastor, said on Saturday that neither he nor his church would follow through on plans to burn copies of the Koran. In an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show, Mr. Jones sai...

Donald Trump is offering to buy out one of the major investors in the real estate partnership that controls the site near ground zero where a Muslim group wants to build a 13-story Islamic center and mosque. ...

Prisoners in the San Francisco County Jail have received some news so good that will have them jumping on top of each other-no pause intended.According to published reports, officials in the San Francisco Count...