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As the EU Parliament prepares to vote this week on a package of new laws on immigration and asylum, many of the proposals remain controversial.

Abortion rights protesters marched through Johnson City on Monday, the latest in a series of demonstrations that have occurred locally since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month,

The continued response to the Conservative Party-led U.K. government's decision to exclude conversion therapy for transgender people from its proposed ban on

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Martin Luther King III was arrested and released Wednesday by U.S. Park Police after protesting for voting rights in front of the White House.

The Taliban struck several journalists to prevent media coverage of a women's rights protest in Kabul on Thursday.

States drive a wave of bills affecting transgender youth Shutterstock At age 14, Indigo Giles realized they preferred to identify as nonbinary—neither female nor male—a realization that led to gender dysphoria, which is the psychological distress felt when someone’s gender identity does not match the sex assigned at birth. Giles obtained gender-affirming medical care in the form of a breast reduction at age 17 with the help of supportive parents. But before undergoing the surgery, Giles e...

Free speech is often used to create division and seed hate. The audience for Enoch Powell on that day was small in number. But through the strength of his rhetoric and the power of the media, his message was shared widely. Today the means of delivering a message extends beyond the soapbox, loudhailer and the friendly right-wing press; social media allows an instantaneous reach to millions. Trump’s twitter was avidly followed by the “make America great again” crowd, who would unfailingly r...