Third-party developers on Google Play, the app market for Android devices, receive the personal details of anyone who buys their apps, potentially violating the terms of a 2011 privacy settlement.

The wife and son of a deported undocumented immigrant exhorted President Barack Obama to cut down on his administration's deportation policy in a video released by an alliance between the Latino advocacy group Cuéntame and other organizations.

A piece of legislation being introduced on Thursday seeks to force the nation's largest polluters to pay a fee for their carbon and methane emissions, proposing the revenue be used to send a monthly rebate check to American families for costs stemming from the fight against climate change.

An alliance of activists and lobbyists on behalf of undocumented immigrants said on Tuesday that they would monitor Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) participation in the bipartisan push for immigration reform.

A new study has shown that objectification can make college-aged women more accepting of the status quo and less likely to engage in social activism, potentially contributing to gender inequality.

A study published Friday in the scientific journal Tobacco Control unearthed documents that reveal the tobacco industry's desire to fund a new "tea party" to advance their anti-regulation objectives years before the tea party, as it is known today, got its start. The same documents show that the two organizations most identified with the modern tea party, Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and FreedomWorks (FW), themselves got their start with a healthy dose of money from the same industry.

As immigration reform continues to command attention from both lawmakers and President Barack Obama, one undocumented activist will likely hear Obama revisit the issue in person on Tuesday, having been invited to attend the State of the Union address.

A marijuana legalization bill being introduced to the Pennsylvania Senate on Monday might have a shot at passage if lawmakers were able to vote via "secret ballot," Pennsylvania Sen. Daylin Leach (D) told Raw Story.

The makers of a new news-delivery app told The Raw Story on Wednesday that their project is not designed to get rid of the typical news anchor, but to enhance the news-reading experience.

Leaders of the immigration advocacy group United We Dream (UWD) told The Raw Story on Wednesday they would continue to exert pressure on President Barack Obama and lawmakers to create a clear route to U.S. citizenship for the country's undocumented immigrants.

A House judiciary hearing into immigration reform was briefly interrupted when a group of young immigrants began chanting, "Undocumented and unafraid" at a California lawmaker who opposed the DREAM Act.

A first-of-its-kind study to be published in the February issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has dealt a devastating blow to the notion that men and women are fundamentally different when it comes to how they think and act.