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).

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is calling out "repressed conservatives" like Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Rush Limbaugh by name for waging a "war against sex."

"I'm fasting and praying to God that this company will be benevolent enough to see that the company is its workers," cocktail waitress Dawn Vaseur said, pushing back tears. Vaseur, one of thirteen Station Casinos workers on a week-long hunger strike, is literally starving to protest the working conditions and the union-busting campaign taking place just outside the Las Vegas Strip.

Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron (pictured, left), a leading intellectual force in the drug policy reform movement, sees the black market for illegal drugs purely as a creation of American economic policy -- and by definition, the black market corrupts.

As executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Ethan Nadelmann (pictured, left) told Raw Story recently that from his perspective, a truly global movement against the drug war has only just begun. In spite of its relative newness, he said that "dramatic" victories are already being won over policies increasingly coming to be seen as "a violation of basic human rights."