social affairs

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia student who was bloodied by state liquor agents during an arrest that sparked a public uproar sai...

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — The Pentagon's top general said Thursday the U.S. military's reach could extend even further into Iraq if the anti-Islamic State ...

DALLAS (AP) — A white Texas police officer was not targeting minorities when he wrestled a black teenage girl to the ground and brandished his gun out...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — High school students in northwest Washington grieved two classmates who were killed when an SUV jumped a curb and plowed into...

McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — 2 p.m. (CDT) A North Texas police officer was reluctant to respond to a disturbance at a community pool where he wrestled a bla...

MILAN (AP) — Vladimir Putin won lavish praise from Italian Premier Matteo Renzi Wednesday as a crucial player in international anti-terrorism efforts,...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister says that three of her ministers have submitted their resignations in connection with the revived 2014 s...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has created a new tribunal section inside the Vatican to hear cases of bishops accused of covering up for priests who...

McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A white police officer in suburban Dallas has resigned after he was recorded on video pushing a black teenage girl to the groun...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Their cat tails wagging and whiskers twitching, feline fans, some in shirts emblazoned with "Check Meowt," chattered about their "p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A GOP-controlled Senate panel has blocked President Barack Obama's request for $50 million to pay for legal help for unaccompanied i...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is dumping the private company that delivers health care in its jails after a year of scrutiny over high-profile deaths ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A son of migrant farm workers in California, Juan Felipe Herrera will be the next U.S. poet in chief. The Library of Congress announ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — James Billington, the librarian of Congress who has led the world's largest library for nearly three decades and brought it into the...

DUBLIN (AP) — Amnesty International urged Ireland to ease its abortion ban as it unveiled a report Tuesday that said Europe's most restrictive laws on...

ROME (AP) — The nuns at the Marist Sisters religious order are counting their blessings after two sisters were trapped in a hot elevator in Rome for n...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has given a hint about his take on the reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary at the Medjugorje shrine in southern B...

BOSTON (AP) — As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders the future of same-sex marriage, the nine justices could consider the experience in Massachusetts, the...

McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators marched Monday night to the pool where a white police officer pinned a black teenage girl to the grou...