Politics

A North Carolina woman was charged with assault with a deadly weapon over the weekend after gospel music allegedly drove her to hit her stepfather in the head with an axe.

E.W. Jackson, a fringe Christian minister who the Republican Party nominated for lieutenant governor of Virginia in 2013, declared during an event for Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday that liberals and LGBT people were full of "hatred."

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stood firmly against a campaign finance bill aimed at stemming the tide of so-called dark money currently flowing into U.S. elections.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Tuesday said that billionaires controlled American politics because of the lack of campaign finance laws.

A family's video detailing their 6-year-old trans son's declaration of his male gender has gone viral and sparked fierce debate about the nature of gender and identity in our society and the changing beliefs around those topics.

A cotton gin in Memphis, Tennessee is facing a federal discrimination complaint after one of its supervisors was caught on a cell phone recording making racist remarks to black employees.

On Tuesday morning's Fox & Friends, conservative pundit and former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama. Media Matters reported that Napolitano objected to the exchange of prisoners from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a prisoner of war held by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The hosts of Fox & Friends on Tuesday lashed out at the White House for allowing the family of returning prisoner of war, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, to speak alongside President Barack Obama because the father looked "like a member of the Taliban" due to a beard he had been growing in support of his son.

French economist Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, appeared on Monday night's edition of "The Colbert Report." Piketty told Colbert that inequality is bad for society as a whole and that one of the goals of civilization should be for people to have a better chance at happiness and fulfillment.

A conservative activist, who has been billed as a homeschooling expert by tea party groups, warned over the weekend that sex-ed courses were a plot to increase the number of Democratic voters by destroying marriages.

A church in California has decided to reject the Southern Baptist Convention's official position on homosexuality after a pastor told members that his son was gay.