The first large-scale, national study of transgender children, including some as young as 3, is poised to expand thanks to a five-year, $1 million grant awarded Thursday by the National Science Foundation to the professor leading the project.
Voters in Alaskaβs largest city are on track to becoming the first in the U.S. to defeat a so-called bathroom bill in a referendum that asked them to require people using public bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender at birth.
Organizers are encouraging gun rights supporters to bring unloaded rifles to rallies at state capitols across the U.S. this weekend, pushing back against a wave of student-led gun violence protests that some see as a threat to the Second Amendment.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has agreed to deploy 400 National Guard troops at President Donald Trumpβs request, but not all will head to the U.S.-Mexico border and none will enforce federal immigration enforcement.
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan will not run for re-election, people close to the Wisconsin lawmaker said Wednesday.
A conservative commentator who sent a tweet saying he would use βa hot pokerβ to sexually assault an outspoken 17-year-old survivor of the Florida high school shooting has resigned from a St. Louis TV station and been taken off the radio after several advertisers withdrew from his shows.
After privately assuring senators that his company will do better, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is undergoing a two-day congressional inquisition that will be very public β and possibly pivotal for the massive social networking company he created.
Federal agents have raided the office of President Donald Trumpβs personal attorney Michael Cohen, seizing records on topics that include a $130,000 payment made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who says she had sex with Trump.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Monday that 225 members of the stateβs National Guard were heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to support President Donald Trumpβs call for troops to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration.
A raging fire that tore through a 50th-floor apartment at Trump Tower killed a man inside and sent flames and thick, black smoke pouring from windows of the presidentβs namesake skyscraper.
Anyone whoβs been wondering if their private Facebook data might have been swept up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal will soon get their first clues.
Federal law enforcement authorities are in the process of seizing online classified site Backpage.com and its affiliated websites known for listing adult escort services.
Ultimate fighting star Conor McGregor is facing criminal charges in the wake of a backstage melee he allegedly instigated that has forced the removal of three fights from UFCβs biggest card of the year.
The Panthers' quarterback, Cam Newton, was involved in a car crash with a dump truck in Atlanta, according to TMZ.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to send 2,000 and 4,000 National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border to help federal officials fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
The nationβs chief doctor wants more Americans to start carrying the overdose antidote naloxone to help combat the nationβs opioid crisis and save lives.
An employee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was reported missing more than six weeks ago drowned, and there were no signs of foul play, authorities said Thursday.
Asserting the situation had reached βa point of crisis,β President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation directing the deployment of the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration.
With thoughts on the past and eyes to the future, thousands marched and sang civil rights songs Wednesday to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the βapostle of nonviolenceβ silenced by an assassin 50 years ago.
Facebook revealed Wednesday that tens of millions more people might have been exposed in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal than previously thought and said it will restrict the data it allows outsiders to access on its users.
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