Politics

A New Mexico father was in Albuquerque court this week because he gave his 11-year-old daughter a loaded firearm for protection while he went to get a tattoo.

Four years after awkwardly skirting questions about the Civil Rights Act, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was suddenly happy to honor its 50th anniversary.

A high school drama department in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania has been forced to scrap plans for their Spring 2015 production of the Monty Python musical "Spamalot."

CNN host Ashleigh Banfield on Wednesday highlighted the "hypocrisy" of Hobby Lobby for investing in companies that made the same birth control products that it refused to provide to female employees.

An Indiana pastor said that his church was vandalized this week when someone change a roadside sign to include a racial slur.

Newark police are searching for clues after officers said that a 17-year-old cheerleader was shot execution style on the street just two weeks after graduation.

Lisa Sendrow, the survivor of sexual assault who George Will recently claimed was using her rape to get a "coveted status," said on Wednesday that his "grotesque" Washington Post column could trigger traumatic reactions in other survivors.

A Washington state white supremacist who was arrested for shooting a Vancouver police officer seven times may have been paying back a debt to the Aryan Brotherhood.

Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian ripped Republicans on Tuesday for their overreaction to Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti's online joke about a "f*ck-in" protest at Hobby Lobby stores.

Paul Broun, a Republican U.S. congressman from Georgia, on Tuesday said that his state's so-called "guns everywhere" law that allows firearms to be carried in bars, school classrooms and many government buildings would prevent shootings.