political issues

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a rural Oregon community college Thursday, killing at least nine people before dying in a shootout with ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Just after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized nationwide same-sex marriage, tens of thousands of people gathered in front of S...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala's newest celebrity is a tall, stoic, 60-year-old jurist with thinning hair and a gray beard, who can't walk the street...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's Supreme Court on Friday said that federal police have asked for its permission to question former President Luiz Inacio Lula...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — One socially conservative Michigan lawmaker was expelled from office and another resigned early Friday after they rocked the Leg...

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will ret...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials will be routinely required to get a search warrant before using secretive and intrusive cellphone-...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The latest on the resignation of Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina (all times local): ___ 9:45 a.m. Guatemalan Attorney Gen...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina resigned in the face of a corruption scandal that has brought his government to the brink...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security forces dragged a number of activists out of the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut, where they were staging an ho...

TOKYO (AP) — Former "Flipper" trainer Ric O'Barry was released by police late Tuesday after being arrested for not carrying his passport while in Japa...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Senegalese activist and a rights group on Friday called for the release of seven men arrested in July and sentenced to six mon...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the "Bloody Sunday" civil rights march in ...

Questions about the racial identity of a well-known activist in the "Black Lives Matter" movement have stirred controversy and drawn a blistering resp...

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — The latest on a Kentucky county clerk's office that has defied a federal judge's order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex cou...

BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy rebel shelling and government airstrikes around the Syrian capital on Wednesday killed at least 36 people and wounded scores more ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian authorities on Monday released an award-winning human rights activist after more than three years in jail in a rare goodwill gest...

BOSTON (AP) — Muslim groups and civil rights activists across the nation are calling for greater transparency in a program by President Barack Obama's...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities kicked off a promised crackdown on Jewish extremists following last week's deadly arson attack on a Palestinian f...

BERLIN (AP) — German Justice Minister Heiko Maas says he will request the dismissal and retirement of chief federal prosecutor Harald Range. Maas said...