Secretary Pete Hegseth banned race in military academy admissions, emphasizing merit-based selection to enhance officer ...

These are challenging times for libraries. Federal support is dwindling, or disappearing altogether, even as attempts to ban a wide swath of books are growing exponentially.

Coco Gauff ended a 10-year American championship drought at Roland Garros while Carlos Alcaraz charged to an epic title ...

As federal health officials vow to overhaul the U.S. food supply, they’re taking a new look at infant formula.

The Independent’s Pride List is back again, celebrating the LGBT+ community’s biggest pioneers over the past 12 months ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, the adjective was prohibited from news copy in most contexts, which meant walking a fine line to reach ...

Grant Hardin, whose notoriety led to the TV documentary "Devil in the Ozarks," escaped May 25 from prison where he was ...

Trump is using travel bans to keep some people out—and additional means to make sure others don’t want to even visit.

There’s been a sharp rise in anti-LGBTQ policies across the U.S. in recent years with LGBTQ school curriculum censored in 19 ...

While the new version of the travel ban is worded more carefully than the ham-fisted “Muslim ban” of the first Trump ...

On military bases across the globe, books are disappearing from shelves. Posters of historical figures, like Frida Kahlo, are ...

When Jay Asher, author of the best-selling young adult novel Thirteen Reasons Why, was asked by his publisher to do a “50 States Against Bullying Tour,” he was a little surprised because for Jay “I ...