ABC on Tuesday canceled Roseanne , the popular reboot of the 1990s sitcom, after the show's biggest star, Roseanne Barr, posted a racist "joke" on Twitter in reference to former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett, who is black...

During an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers on immigration, President Trump wondered aloud, " Why do we want all these people from s***hole countries coming here ?" sources told CNN. Trump was talking about immigrants from Haiti and Africa...

The National Rifle Association issued a statement today that the organization believes certain modifying devices that allow a semi-automatic gun to function as a fully automatic weapon, like the “bump stock” used by the Las Vegas shooter,...

President-elect Donald Trump made a $10,000 donation to institutions in a West Bank settlement in 2003 , a report claims. Yaakov “Katzele” Katz, one of the founders of the settlement of Beit El, told an Israeli radio station that Trump made...

In one of the largest days of protest in U.S. history, millions took to the streets yesterday, one day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. The largest protest was the Women’s March on Washington , where more than 500,000 packed the streets....

Protesters across the nation hit the streets yesterday to protest Donald Trump’s presidential victory. Thousands gathered in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, and Portland, chanting slogans like, “No Trump! No KKK! No racist USA...

Pope Francis told reporters the Catholic Church owes an apology to the LGBT community and any other groups that have been marginalized. Asked by journalists on a plane from Armenia earlier this week if he agreed with an adviser who said the gay community...

A New York Times investigation found that 158 families have donated $176 million to the presidential election so far, much of it to Republicans, by giving more than $250,000 each. They, along with about 200 other families who donated more than $100,000...

Planned Parenthood is keeping its funding—for now—after the Senate blocked a Republican-backed bill to defund the organization. The move to halt federal funds came after a series of undercover videos that shows Planned Parenthood leaders discussing...

The identity of the hunter who killed Cecil the Lion, the beloved star of one of Zimbabwe’s national park system, has been revealed. Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, is believed to have lured the 13-year-old lion out of Hwange National Park...

Actor Jim Carrey took to Twitter to condemn a California law that requires mandatory vaccinations for nearly every schoolchild in the state. “ California Gov says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in manditory vaccines. This...

President Barack Obama shut down a heckler yesterday during an event celebrating LGBT Pride Month at the White House. Transgender activist Jennicet Gutiérrez interrupted Obama and began shouting about ending the deportation of LGBT immigrants before...

Wal-Mart is set to stop selling all merchandise bearing the Confederate flag throughout its stores, according to a CNN report Monday. “We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer. We have taken steps to remove all items promoting...

NAACP Spokane President Rachel Dolezal began her public ordeal by fighting back against critics calling her out for lying about being black. "I don't give two shits about what you guys think," Dolezal said in an interview last Friday with...

Oregon lawmakers passed a bill yesterday that requires criminal background checks for private gun sales , sending it to Gov. Kate Brown’s desk for her signature. The bill passed the Oregon House in a 32-28 vote after nearly five hours of debate...

A new study released earlier this week found there has been a big drop since 2007 in the number of Americans who identify as Christian , according to the Pew Research Center. Though seven in 10 Americans still describe themselves as Christian, more people...

Protesters angry over the death of Freddie Gray, an unarmed black man who died of a mysterious spinal injury he suffered while in police custody, promised to “shut down” Baltimore with their biggest march yet over the weekend. “We are...

An Associated Press report from earlier this week revealed the harrowingly abusive labor practices in the international seafood industry , tracking slave-caught fish on the Indonesian island of Benjina to major American grocery stores such Kroger, Safeway...

Tomorrow, many parents of the 20 children killed in the December 2012 school shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, will announce their decision to sue Bushmaster, the manufacturer of the gun Adam Lanza used . The parents are working with Michael Koskoff...

In the aftermath of Ferguson, tensions are high between protesters and politicians. This week, Missouri State Representative Keith English took to Facebook to suggest that those marching to Jefferson City to protest racial profiling should instead march...

Since the early 1980s, men who have sex with men are banned from giving blood in the U.S. due to concerns back then over transmission of HIV. Now, a U.S. advisory panel at the FDA is reportedly poised to recommend for the first time that the ban be partially...

ESPN commentator and Grantland founder Bill Simmons was suspended by the network for three weeks on Wednesday for a rant against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. On a podcast on Grantland, which ESPN owns, Simmons lit into the executive, declaring, “I...

On Friday, Texas Governor Perry was indicted on two felony counts of coercion and official oppression by a public servant (punishable by up to 99 years in prison). The charges stem from Perry’s veto of $7.5 million in state funding for the Public...

ABC Family has decided not to move forward with the pilot for Alice in Arabia after an outcry from Muslim groups. The show came under fire on Friday after BuzzFeed obtained a script, which outlined the story of an American teenage girl who is kidnapped...

A federal judge struck down California’s death penalty Wednesday on the grounds that it violates the Constitution because sentences are not carried out in a reasonable, timely, or organized manner. “ Arbitrary factors, rather than legitimate...