WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces arrest for violating the terms of his bail after entering the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he is seeking political asylum to avoid possible extradition to Sweden. But he may really be trying to escape the long arm of the United States, not the Swedish government.
Arab racism against black people is deeply-rooted and stretches back centuries.
Rodney King?s death has brought back to light the fragile state of race relations in Los Angeles two decades ago. But lesser known are King?s own struggles and demons after that fateful night in 1991 that left him the unlikely symbol of racial inequality and tension in America.
Daily Caller reporter Neil Munro interrupted President Obama during his speech on the country?s immigration policy on June 15. Now the journalist has clarified what was important enough to interrupt the Commander in Chief?s address.
The Georgia Department of Transportation denied an application by the Ku Klux Klan to participate in the state's Adopt A Highway program, but the roadside volunteer cleanup program may have to come to an end to permanently block the hate group.
Muslims, who form a 4 percent minority in Myanmar as a whole, are concentrated in Rakhine and are part of a community called the Rohingya.
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Florida to stop its drive to remove what it says are ineligible voters from their rolls, and Florida is suing Homeland Security.
Opponents say the ballot initiative, up for a vote on Tuesday, could potentially exempt religious people and groups from discrimination laws in the name of their faith.
Charges of anti-Semitism have been leveled against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is his re-election campaign over state media content that brands opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski as a Zionist.
Florida Governor Rick Scott vowed on Wednesday to continue a disputed effort to purge ineligible voters from the rolls, defying a federal order to halt the process.
The bill will likely die on the Senate floor without Republican support.
Florida state officials will continue their quest to purge purportedly ineligible people from voter-registration rolls, a representative of Secretary of State Ken Detzner said Saturday.
Zimmerman, who is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin, had his bail revoked after prosecutors accused him of conspiring with his wife to lie about $200,000 they collected from a website toward his legal defense.
In a double blow to Florida's controversial push to prevent election fraud, a federal judge blocked the state's new voting law and the Justice Department ordered the state to halt a purge of noncitizens from its voter rolls.
The Prenatal Nondiscrimination' bill would have imposed criminal penalties on doctors accused of performing abortions solely due to the fetus's gender.
John F. Kennedy, the 35th U.S. President, would have been 95 on Tuesday. Born in Brookline, Mass., he was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, after less than three years as president.
Brett Kimberlin, also known as the Speedway Bomber, is the infamous male who set an Indiana town ablaze with a series of coordinated bombings in 1978. The man behind the madness was also convicted of thirty three additional crimes, including illegal use of a Department of Defense insignia, and the Presidential Seal, both of which were used to procure the hard-to-come-by explosives used in the bombings.
As the 1965 Voting Rights Act comes under fire from Republican lawmakers and conservative justices on the Supreme Court, Holder explains why it's still needed to fight inequality at the polls.
Mitt Romney made his first prominent foray into education policy on Wednesday, calling the state of American schools a 'crisis' and decrying teachers unions that he said are stymieing reform.
Debrahlee Lorenzana, who was fired as a banker from Citibank in 2010 for being too sexy, spoke out about the similarities of her case with Lauren Odes', the woman fired from New York lingerie store Native Intimates for being too busty. Lorenzana revealed that she ended up fighting the suit, filed for similar discriminatory reasons, alone after lawyer Gloria Allred dropped her when the cameras stopped flashing.
Jenna Talackova, the first transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe pageant, fell short in gaining the Miss Canada title on Saturday, but was placed in the top 12 of 62 contestants in Toronto. Sahar Biniaz was crowned the title. View the slideshow to see photos of Jenna Talackova at the 2012 Miss Universe Canada competition.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly made some changes to the controversial stop-and-frisk policy that disproportionally affects young black and Latino men.