Uganda’s government on Tuesday defended its decision to push through tough anti-homosexuality laws, saying it was determined to protect the country’s “morals” even if that meant losing international aid. Veteran President Yoweri Museveni has announced he would sign into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life, ...
They say you can never be too rich or too thin. Surely it goes without saying that you can’t be ...
Britain’s coalition government was bitterly divided over immigration on Thursday after the Conservative minister in charge of the issue accused ...
The last abortion clinic in the vast, impoverished Rio Grande Valley closed Thursday, along with the sole remaining clinic in the 100-mile (160-kilometer) stretch between the big city of Houston and the Louisiana border, posing a tall obstacle to women seeking to end pregnancies ...
A third of women in Europe have suffered a physical or sexual assault and 5 percent have been raped, a major new study revealed Wednesday, uncovering “extensive human rights abuse” throughout the European Union. In addition, just over 1 in 10 women said they ...
Malcolm X and rap music have always fit together like a needle in the groove, connected by struggle, strength and defiance. But three recent episodes involving the use or misuse of Malcolm and other black icons have raised the question: Has rap lost touch ...
The 30 Somali teenagers — both boys and girls — all agreed: Female genital mutilation is harmful and the practice should be abandoned. But what they really meant, they revealed moments later, is that girls should still have their genitalia cut — just not ...
A Christian ministry’s long-stalled plans to build Noah’s Ark in the hills of Kentucky have been revived. Creation Museum founder Ken Ham announced Thursday that a municipal bond offering has raised enough money to begin construction on the Ark Encounter project, estimated to cost ...
A federal judge signed an order Thursday directing officials in Kentucky to immediately recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries, capping a hectic 24 hours in the battle over gay rights that is raging across America. The Kentucky decision was just the ...
When Arizona’s governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed businesses to refuse service to gays on religious grounds, she exposed a fracture within the Republican Party between social conservatives and pro-business moderates. Democrats hope to exploit it ahead of midterm elections in November ...
Troubled by a movement against gays across much of the world, the U.S. is launching a new effort to combat what Secretary of State John Kerry described Wednesday as a threat to human rights. Comparing a harsh Ugandan law to oppressive government crackdowns on ...
Three days after Pastor Jamie Coots died from a rattlesnake bite at church, mourners leaving his funeral went back to handle snakes. Coots, who appeared on the National Geographic Channel’s “Snake Salvation,” pastored the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name church founded by his ...
A federal judge declared a ban on same-sex marriage in deeply conservative Texas unconstitutional Wednesday, prompting celebrations by gay marriage advocates over what could be their biggest victory yet in the U.S. Wednesday’s ruling will allow the second-most-populous state to continue enforcing the ban ...
Arizona’s governor on Wednesday vetoed a Republican bill that set off a national debate over gay rights, religion and discrimination. The bill, backed by Republicans in Arizona’s Legislature, was designed to give added protection from lawsuits to people who assert their religious beliefs in ...
Yanitse Garcia has spent three decades correcting people on the pronunciation and spelling of her first name. So when her firstborn came into the world three years ago, Garcia decided to save her daughter a lifetime of grief by choosing a simple name that ...
