“The mindset that people have is that it's not real until it gets close to home."

“I never imagined that at 22 years old I’d be laid off, applying for unemployment...Where do I go from here?”

Ervin Staub has always known the difference a bystander could make.

“The feeling of being there — that prompted me to pour out what I’d been holding inside me,” said Dutch demonstrator Doja Henshaw.

The gender-nonconforming writer and performer says palatability and easily digestible narratives have for too long dominated the community’s priorities.

"It doesn't feel like this is normal life at all," one doctor said of Victoria's lockdown measures.

Federal prosecutors say that Dr. Jumana Nagarwala has been performing the illegal cutting practice on girls between 6 and 8 years old for more than a decade.

“Cocaine mom law” that locks up pregnant women might be done in Wisconsin

Nathan Myhrvold, along with French Laundry chef Francisco Migoya and a 22-person staff, spent four years baking over 36,400 loaves to produce the cookbook.

Domestic violence doesn’t automatically trigger a specific level of military punishment.

The Supreme Court is deciding whether detained immigrants and asylum seekers have a right to bail hearings on a regular basis.

The Boy Scouts of America made the decision to take girls, but some worry the plan poses an existential threat to the Girl Scouts.

Trump’s failure to appoint or even nominate candidates has meant that two-thirds of key State Department positions remain unfilled — including the second-in-command at the State Department’s nuclear-weapons wing.

A Brooklyn-based preacher on Friday became the first member of the unofficial Christian council to resign his post.

“What they’re doing is a delicate balance of keeping him alive just long enough that they can be the ones who execute him, and that he doesn’t die of natural causes,” Bernard E. Harcourt, a Columbia Law School professor who has been representing Hamm pro-bono since the early '90s, told VICE News.

Pope Francis — whose broad appeal has made him a hero not just for Catholics but for the secular world as well — remains a well-liked pontiff. But his popularity has started to wane among Catholics, particularly regarding sex abuse.

Every day 20 U.S. veterans kill themselves. It’s a mental-health crisis that the Department of Veteran Affairs has struggled to deal with.

It was, said detractors, so dull it should be renamed Paint Never Dries – and most blamed the gloomy and confusing storyline.

The Department of Homeland Security is expanding the social media data it collects on green-card holders, legal immigrants, and even naturalized citizens in the name of “protecting the homeland.” But many digital and surveillance experts say this type of data collection has no proven security benefits, and even the DHS’ own inspector general has concerns.

When former West Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice Allen Loughry allegedly spent thousands of dollars in state funds on marble for his office’s bathroom, he wanted to make sure it matched the inlay for the $7,500 state map ingrained on his office floor.

The film 'Mirror Mirror' is a fitting tribute to Oscar-winning designer Eiko Ishioka.

The Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art will soon showcase 100 years of cinematic costumes. See a sneak preview of the exhibit, from Charlie Chaplin's ...

#CheckYourPrivilege. It’s not a suggestion so much as a command when it’s thrown around Twitter — often by a well-intentioned person who is trying to maintain the sanctity of the feminist movement — by decrying anyone who dares try to weigh in on, or attempt to understand, the complex politics of the space...

The U.S. government doesn’t break down asylum claims by reason, so it’s impossible to know just how many people ask for asylum due to gang-related or domestic violence. Immigration lawyers and advocates argue that the U.S. has a clear moral and legal obligation to grant refugee status to women.

Purdue Pharma, the company that manufactures the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, laid off its entire sales force Tuesday, effectively ending an era for the drug that at one point was a top-seller and became synonymous with the nation’s opioid crisis...

Should DNA test results give someone access to affirmative action programs?