Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) has refused through a spokesperson to endorse one town's first-ever integrated high school prom, saying that he would rather not take sides on the issue. According to Atlanta's WMAZ Channel 13, politicians from both parties have stated their support for black and white students from Wilcox, Georgia, but Deal declined to join them.

Rep. Steve Stockman believes that giving guns to fetuses could completely change the abortion debate.

A Montana lawmaker who voted this week to keep homosexual acts classified as a felony explained to Raw Story on Thursday that he doesn't really believe sex is only meant for procreation, despite his comments during open debate.

Just days after a student at the Houston-based Lone Star College went on a stabbing spree that left 14 people injured, Texas resident and Detroit-born rocker Ted Nugent is featured in a promotional contest for a group called "Knife Rights," billed by the president of the National Rifle Association as the nation's "second line of defense" against legislative proposals to restrict firearms access.

A report by three experts on school violence and criminal justice casts doubt on the National Rifle Association's proposal to stop gun violence.

An Applebee’s restaurant in Rice Lake, Wisconsin has agreed to keep on a gay server who resigned after he was threatened with a firing over “bad publicity” from an incident in which the server was beaten with a two-by-four piece of lumber by the husband of another employee. According to LGBT newspaper The Wisconsin Gazette, Apple American Group CEO Greg Flynn intervened on behalf of the employee, overruling the management of the Rice Lake franchise.

The headlines – like "Homeland Security Buys Enough Ammo for a Seven-Year War Against the American People" – seemed to confirm some conservatives' worst fears about the Obama administration's attitude towards the second amendment of the US constitution: that the push for background checks and against assault weapons was really just an elaborate scheme to disarm Americans and install some sort of dictatorship.

A deal between labor unions and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce would allow undocumented immigrants the chance to apply for legal resident status as part of a new work visa program, CBS News reported on Saturday.

Temporary and migrant workers face greater dangers and are injured more often in the workplace than regular and permanent workers. According to Sarah Paoletti, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Transnational Law Center, these types of workers face multiple systemic problems which make them more vulnerable to workplace accidents and that also leave them less likely to report unsafe conditions and accidents to authorities and less likely to seek medical help for their injuries.

The aerospace lobby has launched a new crowd-funded advertisement campaign to raise awareness about NASA's space exploration programs.

New research suggests that post-traumatic stress disorder is linked to social morality, a finding that helps elucidate the relationship between politics and veterans' mental health.