Politics

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said that a recent confrontation with actress Ellen Page about LGBT rights was an example of "liberal fascism" and a "hatred" for Christians.

An Alabama mother said this week that she was forced to quit as a volunteer cheerleading coach after she complained that the team president and his friend had worn racist T-shirts to practice.

A Florida sheriff said this week that there was "absolutely no evidence" that a suspect was beaten by one of his deputies, but the man's family claimed that his bloody mug shot suggested that officials were lying.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly challenged Republican presidential candidate during an interview on Monday, questioning the viability of Trump's idea of deporting each of the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tried to explain his use of the anti-immigrant term "anchor babies" on Monday by shifting the ethnic group targeted by it, Gawker reported.

Residents in the Detroit suburb of Southfield say they were outraged after finding racist fliers that call voters to "get the blacks out" by supporting white politicians in November.

Rev. Barry Lynn, the executive director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, elicited the ire of evangelical Christian C-SPAN callers on Monday, who accused him of "speaking profanity" against God.

Film director Quentin Tarantino said in a recent interview that he was hopeful that the "Black Lives Matter" movement would expose institutional racism, and that he loved the 'doesn’t-give-a-sh*t attitude' President Barack Obama had adopted this year.

A gunman who shot a Louisiana State Trooper in the head with a shotgun is in custody after a roadside stop went horribly wrong on Sunday.

Republican Ohio state Rep. John Becker told CNN host Alisyn Camerota that sponsors of a bill to force women to carry fetuses with Down syndrome never talked to parents before filing the legislation.

Historian Ken Burns reminded supporters of the Confederacy on Sunday that the Civil War had been primarily about slavery, and not states' rights as many conservatives have claimed.

MSNBC host Janet Mock shamed Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee over the weekend for trying diminish the "Black Lives Matter" movement with "unsophisticated manipulation" of Dr. Martin Luther King's words.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said on Sunday that unmanned drones strikes should only be ordered on the Mexican border to destroy "caves" that are used by those smuggling undocumented immigrants.