The Senate approved legislation outlawing workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, demonstrating the nation’s quickly evolving attitude toward gay rights nearly two decades after Congress rejected same-sex marriage.
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A mother is asking a Texas school district for a policy change after her 12-year-old son’s breakfast was thrown in the trash because his account was 30 cents short.
Vice President Joe Biden called the wrong Marty Walsh to congratulate him on winning the Boston mayoral race. Luckily Biden has a sense of humor.
The family of a 3-year-old killed in a northern Missouri house fire is outraged after police used a stun gun on the boy’s stepfather as he tried to run back in and save the child.
The FBI this week added to its list of most wanted cybercriminals a former San Diego college student who developed a program called “Loverspy” or “Email PI,” which would install malicious software that could capture emails and instant messages, even spy on someone using the victim’s own webcam.
Scientists studying the terrifying meteor that exploded without warning over a Russian city last winter say the threat of space rocks smashing into Earth is bigger than they thought.
Heart-clogging trans fats have been slowly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant menus in the last decade. Now, the Food and Drug Administration will require the food industry to gradually phase out all trans fats.
Ending weeks of speculation, Internet giant Google said it is exploring using two large barges — one in San Francisco Bay, another off Portland, Maine — as interactive learning centers.
Paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled a new dinosaur discovered four years ago in southern Utah that proves giant tyrant dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex were around 10 million years earlier than previously believed.
A Colorado family woke up one morning this week to find a group of elk mingling around their trampoline, with one actually enjoying itself on the tramp.
Americans who passed part, but not all, of the GED test are rushing to finish the high school equivalency exam before a new version rolls out in January and their previous scores are wiped out. About 1 million people could be affected.
Two U.K. women are facing intense criticism after dressing up as the burning World Trade Center twin towers for Halloween, bagging a nearly $250 prize in a club’s costume contest.
Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy used his carbon-Kevlar four-engine ‘jetwing” to fly near Mount Fuji, Japan, on Tuesday.
Michelle Knight was held for a decade in Ariel Castro’s Cleveland home; chained and raped by her captor, who struck her with a barbell to force a miscarriage when she became pregnant and snapped her dog’s neck after it tried to protect her, Knight said in a taped interview on the “Dr. Phil” show.
A teacher said Tuesday that he crawled to escape a gunman at Los Angeles International Airport and used a sweatshirt as a tourniquet after his leg was shattered during last week’s deadly shooting.