The governing board of Arkansas’s capital city on Tuesday adopted an ordinance forbidding discrimination against gays and transgender people in municipal hiring, setting the stage for a legal confrontation with the state government which has...

The real question is not whether Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin or other GOP presidential hopefuls would attend a same-sex wedding, columnist Dan Savage said on Tuesday — it’s how anybody believes they would be invited to one at all....

Conservative billionaire Charles Koch is considering giving money to several candidates for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination before settling on a single recipient, USA Today reported on Tuesday. Koch told the newspaper he was thinking...

Updated | Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, who in 2012 pleaded guilty in Clay County circuit court to a misdemeanor charge of failure to report suspected...

An elementary school teacher in Halfway, Oregon filed a federal lawsuit against local school district officials saying she was traumatized by a surprise drill simulating a school shooting, the Portland Oregonian reported. The suit stated that...

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Baltimore on Tuesday to protest the death of a 27-year-old black man who died after being arrested by local police. The U.S. Justice Department is looking into the case of Freddie Gray, who arrested on April...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s chief will step down within weeks, the Obama administration said on Tuesday, as a congressional panel planned to examine whether DEA agents divulged secrets at sex parties that Colombian drug...

A Pulitzer prize honoring his work as a journalist came a bit too late for Rob Kuznia, who had to quit the profession because it didn’t pay enough. Kuznia, 39, was honored Monday for his reporting with the Daily Breeze, a 63,000...

The former assistant police chief in Parma, Missouri denied allegations on Tuesday that racism and sexism played a part in his leaving the department following the election of a black woman, Tyus Byrd, (pictured above) as mayor....

A group of Native American tribes and environmentalists in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula lost their fight to save roughly 10,000 acres of public land to a Canadian mining company. The Michigan Department of National Resources (DNR) recently...

With a week until the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a crucial case involving same-sex marriage, the activist group the Human Rights Campaign is pushing to paint Internet social circles red. The group announced on Tuesday that it wants to...

DC Police May Investigate Pols Holding AR-15 Two Republican congressmen who posed for a photo with an AR-15 assault rifle may soon find themselves under investigation after District of Columbia police Tuesday were given “materials,” including...

Five years after shooting a seven-year-old girl to death while on duty, Joseph Weekley has rejoined the Detroit police. While filming with an A&E crew in 2010, Officer Joseph Weekley led a SWAT team of officers into a Detroit residence in...

Tennessee state Rep. Sheila Butt (R) on Tuesday moved to table an amendment that would have exempted victims of rape and incest from new restrictions on access to abortion because she said that their claims were “not verifiable.”...

A freshman Republican congressman was caught on video threatening to knock out a conservative protester during a demonstration outside his office last week. A video featured Monday at SantaClarita.com showed Rep. Steve Knight (R-CA) threatening...