social issues

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Hasbro hit back Friday in a lawsuit over who owns the rights to The Game of Life, flatly denying claims by a toy inventor's wi...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Recordings secretly made by an anti-abortion group at meetings of abortion providers do not show criminal activity and could put ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni peace talks in Switzerland were halted on Friday after the country's Shiite rebel delegation suspended all meetings with th...

CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for a white Chicago policeman charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teenager said Friday he will seek a chan...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The mother of a Sikh middle school student accused of threatening to detonate a bomb at his Texas school is asking police to d...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union warned Thailand on Friday that it should "promptly" address the human rights and slavery issues that have dogged it...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Mother Teresa, the tiny, stooped nun who cared for the poorest of the poor in the slums of India and beyond, will be declared a sa...

The Associated Press-GfK poll on immigration was conducted by GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communications Dec. 3-7. It is based on online intervie...

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — A Syrian scientist whose harrowing, tragic story spurred supporting words from President Barack Obama and a successful fundraisi...

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Dozens of Macedonian prostitutes and human rights activists have held a peaceful march in downtown Skopje to protest violence...

CHICAGO (AP) — Janet Lindsey Ferguson has carried a poster bearing a photograph of her teenage son, Rickey Childs, ever since he was shot and killed b...

LONDON (AP) — Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously against tycoon and U.S. presidential contender Donald Trump in his battle to stop...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 39-year-old woman and a teenage boy are suspected in the deaths of two children whose bodies were found inside a storage unit i...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Rights groups are lobbying rapper Nicki Minaj to cancel her upcoming concert in Angola, a southern African country often criticize...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the trial of a Baltimore police officer who is charged with manslaughter in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old bl...

BEIRUT (AP) — The latest news on developments in the Syrian conflict. All times local: 6:45 p.m. Human Rights Watch says Russia and other nations tryi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When it comes to assessing threats, schools in New York City and Los Angeles likely have more experience than most other districts ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Clashes were underway Wednesday along several front lines in Yemen, claiming at least 42 lives and undermining a day-old cease-fir...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Prison survivors said corpses were sometimes left to rot in jail until there were enough bodies to be taken away. Several women ...

LEER, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's civil war took away everything that had been precious to Mary Nyak Chot. "All my children were killed. The youn...