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USWNT boldly embraces off-the-field activist role
Setting itself apart from other great American sports teams, the U.S. women's soccer team is embracing a front-line role in social justice causes even as it savors a fourth world...
Would overturning abortion rights turn back clock to 1973?
What would happen if Roe v. Wade, the ruling establishing abortion rights nationwide, were overturned? Although far from a certainty, even with increased conservative clout on the Supreme Court, a...
Boy Scouts could be hit with more sex abuse claims
The lawyers' ads on the internet aggressively seeking clients to file sexual abuse lawsuits give a taste of what lies ahead this year for the Boy Scouts of America: potentially...
American Medical Association, Planned Parenthood challenge Trump family-planning rule
The American Medical Association and Planned Parenthood filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration rule changing criteria for family-planning grant money in ways sought by anti-abortion...
Trump administration sets up abortion obstacles, barring clinic referrals
The Trump administration on Friday set up new obstacles for women seeking abortions, barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from making abortion referrals. The new policy is certain to be challenged...
Elections, films help effort to ban gay conversion therapy, including in Colorado
Activists urging more states to ban gay conversion therapy for minors are expecting major gains in 2019, thanks to midterm election results and the buzz generated by two well-reviewed films.
LGBT midterm triumphs: 2 governorships, at least 9 seats in Congress
On the East Coast, West Coast and in heartland states between them, LGBT candidates scored a raft of notable midterm election victories.
Anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise even before Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Swastikas scrawled into Jewish students鈥� notebooks. Headstones toppled and desecrated by vandals at Jewish cemeteries. Jews falsely blamed for challenges facing the nation.
LGBT leaders furious over reported federal plan targeting transgender people
LGBT leaders across the U.S. reacted with fury Monday to a report that the Trump administration is considering adoption of a new definition of gender that would effectively deny federal...
Trump remaking federal policy on women鈥檚 reproductive health
Step by methodical step, the Trump administration is remaking government policy on reproductive health — moving to limit access to birth control and abortion and bolstering abstinence-only sex education.