social issues

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread ...

CAIRO (AP) — A leading investigative journalist and human rights advocate is facing accusations from Egypt's military prosecutor, his colleague said S...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii has long been known as a tropical paradise, but in recent years another image has intruded into the state's carefully crafted o...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities rescued several hundred migrants from the Aegean Sea off eastern Greek islands in relatively calm waters on Saturday...

BERLIN (AP) — The latest news as tens of thousands of people fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe. All times local. 8:45 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As states deal with a nationwide shortage of execution drugs, California proposed Friday to allow corrections officials to c...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon church officials have issued a rule change that says members in same-sex marriages can be kicked out and their children m...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — There was no outward warning that a quiet 18-year-old would burst into a university classroom and slash fellow students over a di...

NEW YORK (AP) — The executive director of the largest police union in the country is threatening a "surprise" for Quentin Tarantino after the director...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The evacuation of a squalid Roma camp this week has forced Sweden to come to terms with a troubling new reality: For the first time i...

MADRID (AP) — Thousands of people from all over Spain converged on Madrid on Saturday to march against domestic violence. Members of 380 regional and ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the past two years, Nathan Kitchen has revealed to his five children that he's gay, gone through a divorce with his wife and ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest as tens of thousands of people flood into Europe in search of a new life. All times local. 6:30 p.m. Slovenia's presi...

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — A construction worker who ran into a California university classroom to break up what he thought was a fight was hailed as a her...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The interiors of two mosques at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site will be exempt from monitoring by security cameras, Jordan's king...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Efforts to unionize graduate students at private universities are gaining momentum as the National Labor Relations Board shows...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The longtime head of an organization considered the lobbying arm of the civil rights movement announced Wednesday that he will step ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The execution of a Missouri man was in limbo Wednesday following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to halt the lethal injection short...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian rammed his vehicle into an Israeli police officer in the West Bank on Wednesday, seriously injuring him before he was s...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Michigan lawmakers who were forced from office over an extramarital affair and a convoluted cover-up scheme are running Tues...