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Controversial comments about transgender people made by “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling have sparked another online discussion about gender identity. Here’s the difference between gender and sex and how both impact a person’s identity.

The Iowa caucuses are just days away, and a new round of financial disclosure reports shows Democrat Joe Biden with low reserves of cash and two self-funding billionaires awash in it. And all the candidates are burning through cash.

Virginia’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment this week represents not only a potential milestone for the ERA’s century-long struggle but also a remarkable evolution for a state that for decades had blocked the legislative effort to empower women.

A Facebook executive was grilled by Senators on Thursday about the impact its apps have on younger users, two weeks after an explosive report indicated the company was aware that Facebook-owned Instagram could have a “toxic” effect on teen girls.

YouTube will remove videos spreading misinformation about any approved vaccine, not only those aimed at preventing Covid-19, the company announced in a blog post Wednesday.

Instagram is pressing pause on plans to develop a version of its service for kids under 13 after facing pressure from lawmakers to back down on the effort and new questions about the impact the photo-sharing service has on teen girls.

As in the federal and state governments, local elected officials are more likely to be white than their constituents. At times, such as with school boards, the differences are particularly stark.

I’m a millennial, and this year I turned 40. That’s right: The avocado toast generation, long portrayed as young and naïve, is entering middle age. And the Myth of the Millennial is very different from the reality that many of us are living.

From his homeland in the South to unexpected places far beyond America’s shores, here are 10 places that shaped Martin Luther King Jr.’s passage through history.

From his homeland in the South to unexpected places far beyond America’s shores, here are 10 places that shaped Martin Luther King Jr.’s passage through history.