An African-American Congresswoman from New York was forced to call the police on Thursday after she says an edited video posted on Glenn Beck's website incited threats of violence against her.

Anti-abortion groups -- who have long-considered medical, or pill abortions, to be one of the biggest threats to their movement's demonization of abortion and the women who seek them -- quietly opened a new front in state legislatures recently to de facto restrict or eliminate access to the less expensive, less risky pill abortion. And after achieving their aims in Ohio, they took the fight to Minnesota, where the Senate Thursday passed a bill to make obtaining such abortions so burdensome that advocates expect women will opt out.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) and the now-dead Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are two very different beasts aimed at solving two distinctly separate problems, yet CISPA has been characterized in the media as a sequel to SOPA, in an effort to link a new and relatively obscure controversy to one that's much better known.

It's not unusual for presidential candidates to spend heavily on direct mail -- as of January, all of the presidential campaigns has spent $18.6 million on such services. But in the waning weeks of his campaign -- even as insiders well calling on him to drop out -- former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) spent almost $1.9 of his supporters' money trying to generate new supporters with direct mail, according to FEC documents filed last week.

A 68-year-old, blind South Dakota man says after a two week stay in a Rapid City hospital, he returned home with unusual wounds on his abdomen which his caretakers soon discovered appear to spell out the letters “KKK.”

A smartphone application set to debut next week looks to bring real-time complaint reporting to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints.

As the U.S. Supreme Court finally takes up a lawsuit over Arizona's restrictive immigration law, there are some leading immigration reform activists who are calling Mitt Romney's stated position of supporting policies that encourage "self-deportation" nothing more than "fantasy."

San Francisco Police arrested 24 protesters apart of a group attempting to shutdown a Wells Fargo shareholder meeting Tuesday afternoon, according to The Bay Citizen.

In a recent response to a White House petition, President Barack Obama's drug czar warned of danger in the domestic production of industrial hemp, drawing a stunned reaction from the petition's author, who told Raw Story on Wednesday that it was "like getting hit in the head with a hammer."

The author of a controversial anti-immigration bill in Arizona said on Tuesday that young children could simply get state-issued identification to prove they are in the U.S. legally.

A study published this week by the Pew Hispanic Center found that over the last five years, immigration from Mexico to the United States has dropped to its lowest level in decades, hitting the key "net zero" benchmark just recently, where more Mexicans are moving out of the U.S. than there are coming in.

Earlier today, the Planned Parenthood blog "Reproductive Health Reality Check" posted an editorial stating that the organization has been subject to several suspicious visits at clinics across the country.

A former executive at BitTorrent, Inc. known for inventing a highly successful credit card fraud detection technology has joined 50 other Internet professionals, educators, engineers, policy makers and entrepreneurs in beseeching Congress to abandon a bill that would merge corporate networks with the National Security Agency (NSA).