An insurer denied HIV medication to a gay man for allegedly "engaging in high-risk homosexual behavior."

President Donald Trump's misleading statement about his son's meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer could provide a basis for impeachment proceedings, according to one legal scholar.

On Thursday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer indicated the federal government would start cracking down on recreational marijuana. Spicer's statement reflects Department of Justice head Jeff Sessions' stated views on pot—in several Congressional hearings, the former Senator denounced legalization and (wrongly) linked the drug to heroin addiction. Still, yesterday's press conference may have come as an unnerving surprise to legal pot advocates, who'd hoped the industry's profitability would shield it from the federal government in states where it's legal.

Indian-born transgender rights activist Nina Chaubal has been detained by immigration authorities and threatened with imminent deportation. She is currently being held in an Arizona Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility notorious for its mistreatment of LGBT detainees.

CHARLESTON -- Dot S. Scott, the president of the Charleston chapter of the NAACP, said this week that the black community in her city was at a breaking point due to the recent mistrial of a former police officer who was seen on video shooting Walter Scott in the back, and because of the ongoing federal trial of Dylann Roof, who admitted killing nine members of Emanuel AME Church.

Retired Navy officer Jim Wright of the liberal blog Stonekettle Station said this week that he was banned by Facebook for speaking out against supporters of the Nazi Party.

Democratic officials in North Carolina have asked law enforcement to step up protection of campaign workers after Orange County offices for both the Republican and Democratic parties were targeted on the same day.

While the Church of Scientology and the National Rifle Association may not have a lot of overlap in membership, the two secretive organizations have a lot in common.

A Raw Story analysis of thousands of TV weather forecasts in the United States found that only one meteorologist was willing to concede that the record breaking temperatures over the Christmas holiday could be linked to climate change.

A 7-year-old Ohio girl and her father are garnering fans online after he posted footage of her facing down an anti-LGBT street preacher a day after the Supreme Court ruling legalizing marriage equality.

The union representing Baltimore police officers set up an online fundraiser on Friday on behalf of the six officers indicted in connection with Freddie Gray's death, only to have it disappear within an hour.

Buzz60 host Patrick Jones' story on an anti-catcalling campaign in New York City turned into a demonstration of why it was necessary, after an unsettling encounter Jones told The Raw Story is "100 percent real."

Reverend Flip Benham, the father of would-be reality stars David Benham and Jason Benham, and a group Christians confronted several transgender women as they attempted to use the women's restrooms during a debate over a non-discrimination ordinance in North Carolina this week.