An amendment to the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that bans the indefinite detention of American citizens and lawful permanent residents appears to be an improvement over last year's bill, but according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) it could also do some harm.

The owner of Oakland's Harborside Health Center, widely regarded as the nation's largest medical marijuana dispensary, won a major court victory on Friday when a state judge ruled that a landlord cannot evict the business for activities explicitly protected under state law.

The U.S. Navy's specially-trained marine animals will soon be out of a job, replaced by a fleet of underwater drones within the next 10 years -- and that's given The Humane Society of the United States reason to smile.

While some Republican senators have introduced legislation they say signals the party's move toward immigration reform, some immigrant advocacy groups have criticized those efforts.

A class action lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and an alliance of immigration advocacy groups on Thursday will seek to force the state of Arizona to offer drivers licenses to young undocumented immigrants taking part in a federal deferred deportation program.

Researchers can predict if college freshman intend to become sexually active based solely on content they post to Facebook.

In the wake of a vicious attack on a lesbian woman in Alabama, writer and activist Dan Savage reminded LGBT people, "The Second Amendment applies to queers, too."

Unless you've worked in retail, you've probably never heard of it. If you have worked in retail, then you know that sometimes, if you will, shit gets real. For some unfathomable reason, people poop in retail clothing stores, particularly in fitting rooms and inside the circular clothing racks called "rounders," but other times they'll just do it in a corner or, perversely, on the floor right next to the toilet.

On November 14, 2012, the National Women's Law Center honored Anita Hill, Sandra Fluke and "Doonesbury" comic Garry Trudeau and invited them to talk about being at the center of a media hullabaloo, feminism and what happens when one talks about feminist issues in a public space.

A Senate Judiciary Committee aide is denying in strong terms that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) supports legislation that would give federal agencies broad power to read Americans emails without a warrant.

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals narrowly ruled on Thursday that Michigan's ban on affirmative action, passed by a ballot initiative in 2006, is unconstitutional.

The White House on Wednesday receieved (PDF link) from two attorneys with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), demanding that President Barack Obama release the text of what they called a "secret" new cyber security law that appears to enable "military deployment within the United States."

President Barack Obama signed a secret policy directive in mid-October that establishes guidelines for using the military to "vet any operations outside government and defense networks," according to a report published Wednesday in The Washington Post.