The 2016 Congressional "Pig Book" is out and you the taxpayer are spending more than $5 billion in earmarks.
U.S. health officials say there is conclusive evidence that the Zika virus causes birth defects.
Ten months after a landmark Supreme Court ruling, the debate over gay rights and religious freedom is turning America into a battleground. And with 34 states considering religious freedom legislation, the battle is getting fierce...
Government repression and extremist violence are responsible for the decline of human rights standards around the world, according to the U.S. State Department's annual human rights report.
The massive influx of refugees from Muslim countries into Europe is fueling an old problem there: anti-Semitism. That's driving Jewish communities in France, Belgium and elsewhere to consider their options.
Peshmerga forces fighting the Islamic State in Iraq are receiving training from U.S. advisors, but that's not putting food on the table. The lack of pay is leading some to desert.
A Florida middle school Spanish teacher has been suspended after handing out a questionnaire that polled students' personal information, including their sexual orientation, gender identity and religion.
A 60-year-old Christian woman in Indonesia's Aceh province was whipped nearly 30 times with a rattan cane in front of a large crowd for selling alcohol.
A California pastor and his wife say they witnessed a modern day miracle after praying for a boy with no pulse and no signs of life and seeing him open his eyes and begin breathing.
Up to 70 percent of parolees from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation end up back to prison within three years. But one ministry has set out to reverse that problem with remarkable success.