Politics

The Massachusetts House approved a bill on Wednesday that expanded anti-discrimination statues to cover trans residents' access to public facilities including restrooms, WBUR-FM reported.

Researchers at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History marked their discovery of a new way to identify praying mantis species by naming a new species after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Washington Post reported.

A US Army veteran slammed Republican presidential Donald Trump on Tuesday amid questions about Trump's donations to veterans groups.

A Christian state lawmaker from Utah said in an interview with NPR that his faith has not been compromised by protecting LGBT rights -- in fact, it has been strengthened.

It appears the North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr is trying to back away from the political debacle that has been that state's H.B. 2, the so-called "bathroom bill."

A fact check provided by CNN's Carol Costello on Wednesday refuted claims that the Clinton Foundation kept 80 percent of its donations, which Trump surrogate Gina Louden had insisted was true because she got the figure from a Google search.

Young Turks host Ana Kasparian took a moment on Tuesday to mock Donald Trump fans who defend his campaign rhetoric as a response to "political correctness."

Attorney David Wohl appeared to exasperate Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Tuesday while defending Donald Trump's recent attempts to discredit a judge by falsely referring to him as Mexican.

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested this week that evolution was a hoax because a gorilla that was recently killed at the Cincinnati Zoo never "became one of us."

A Chicago-area location of famously LGBT-friendly restaurant chain Hamburger Mary's responded on Tuesday to an act of antigay vandalism that took place over the weekend.

Former Telemundo president and Apprentice star Nely Galan scolded the hosts of Fox & Friends on Tuesday for using the term "illegal" to slur undocumented immigrants.

At a contentious press conference on Tuesday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump blasted the media for making him "look bad" by insisting that he account for $6 million, which he had claimed to raise for veterans charities.

The hosts of Fox & Friends wondered if the parents of the boy who fell into a Gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo over the weekend should be charged, pointing to the "lengthy criminal record" of the father who was not there at the time.