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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the Department of State is soliciting comments from citizens, advocacy groups and other non-governmental organizations on the human rights record of the United States. Read More

Releasing this year's annual State Department report on human rights around the world on Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters the Obama administration was 'committed to holding everyone to the same standard, including ourselves.' Read More

Academy-Award winning actor Tom Hanks told CNSNews.com on Thursday that ignorance and racism are going away in America, but 'it's just taking an awfully long time' for racism to be replaced by acceptance Read More

The government must do something beyond the pending health care bill to reduce the 'appalling' U.S. death rate for women having babies, Amnesty International says. Read More

The U.S. Census Bureau has changed its interpretation of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to allow it to tabulate same-sex couples who self-identify their union as a marriage, even though DOMA prohibits legal recognition of same-sex unions as marriages. Read More

A proposed law would empower the federal government to collect the payroll information of private companies and analyze it in an effort to prevent gender-based pay discrimination, which has been illegal since 1963. Read More

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has repeatedly declined to confirm or deny Sestak's allegation. Read More

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) told CNSNews.com that he did not ask anybody to clear the field of rival candidates in Pennsylvania's Democratic U.S. Senate primary and that nobody told him that they would do so. Read More

House Democrats were meeting again Friday to discuss the still-evolving plan. Leaders are trying to soothe lawmakers worried about the price they might pay in November's congressional elections for supporting it. Read More

The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid remained hospitalized Friday with serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan in which she and their daughter were riding on a suburban Virginia interstate. Read More

The Christian group Village of Hope said Moroccan authorities had produced no evidence to support the proselytizing allegations, and they offered no way of appealing the decision. Read More

The U.S. recently modified its policy of isolating the junta in the hope that increased engagement would encourage change. However, the Obama administration has said it will not lift sanctions on Myanmar unless its sees concrete progress toward democratic reform. Read More

Winning here, and holding the ground in the months to come, would be a first step for the Afghan exit strategy President Barack Obama hopes to start implementing next year. Read More

Republican senators said that House members who vote for the Senate-passed health care bill would "own it," and that nothing would be changed through reconciliation, including prohibiting federal (taxpayer) funds from being used to pay for abortions. Read More

Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas is holding a gala next month to raise money for its new abortion clinic, which will be specially equipped for performing late-term abortions. Read More

A former aide to John Edwards avoided jail again Friday in a dispute over a tape that allegedly shows the past presidential candidate and his lover in a sexual encounter. Read More

A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled. Read More

Under White House pressure to act swiftly, House and Senate Democratic leaders reached for agreement Friday on President Barack Obama's health care bill, sweetened suddenly by fresh billions for student aid and a sense that breakthroughs are at hand. Read More

We see them on the streets and in the mirror: middle-aged men wearing jeans and baseball caps. Grown men, dressing and – all too often – acting like boys. Read More

The NBA has signed off on Michael Jordan's bid to buy the Charlotte Bobcats, and commissioner David Stern expects the league's board of governors to approve the $275 million purchase by the end of next week. Read More

Newly released documents show an ambulance crew that responded to golfer Tiger Woods' car crash wouldn't let his wife ride with him to the hospital because they thought it was a case of domestic violence. Read More

In 2008, just four years after leaving NBC News, Jane Pauley gave the maximum allowed donation to Barack Obama and campaigned for him, proclaiming “I want to see the cool, steady hand of Barack Obama on that Bible on Inauguration Day” and predicted O... Read More

On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, during a discussion of Mitt Romney's recent altercation with rapper Sky Blu on an airplane, host Maher suggested that Romney might have been motivated by racism in confronting the rapper as the he brought... Read More

On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, during a discussion of Mitt Romney's recent altercation with rapper Sky Blu on an airplane, host Maher suggested that Romney might have been motivated by racism in confronting the rapper as the he brought... Read More

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Friday moderated a group of mostly liberal voices to sympathize with Democratic Congressman Patrick Kennedy and, at times, former Representative Eric Massa. Speaking of the politician who spent the week... Read More

Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines accuses the Times of "a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration" that's "without precedent in our modern political history" and accuses the network of having "overturned standards of f... Read More

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, on Friday's Today show, remarked how similar the Eric Massa case was to the Mark Foley sex scandal in 2006, and back then Scarborough went with Matt Lauer's premise that Hastert should be "Thrown under the bus." However when ... Read More

Liberal comedian Jon Stewart featured a rare conservative voice on Tuesday's Daily Show, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen. As he often does during the occasions he talks to right-leaning guests, Stewart turned combative, attacking Thiessen for ... Read More

Four months after "ClimateGate" exposed top climate scientists trying to manipulate data and suppress dissent, USA Today has brought forth a front-page feature article that seems aimed at rehabilitating one of those exposed by the scandal, Penn State... Read More

In an interview with Matt Damon near the end of Thursday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith helped promote the actor's latest film, 'Green Zone,' which attacks the Bush administration over the Iraq war: "What was it like to make a movie like this?... Read More

Good Morning America's Jake Tapper on Thursday forced a completely unrelated rant by Representative Patrick Kennedy into a story entirely on health care. The Rhode Island Democrat's March 10 speech railed against the war in Afghanistan. Yet, Tapper t... Read More

The media were fascinated by a woman discussing her chemical abortion -- as it happened -- on Twitter and YouTube. But it wasn't worthy of debate, just praise. Read More

It's quite shocking to see a high-profile American faith take so much abuse from Hollywood and New York and other bohemian centers of America. Read More

Network anchors reporters cried foul when Sen. Jim Bunning temporarily held up a spending bill extending unemployment benefits. Bunning should have told the reporters to go bother their own network bosses if they wanted to badger a layoff villain. Read More

Once Simon Cowell leaves the Fox hit, who can replace him? Rumors have Fox scraping the bottom of the barrel for aging shock jock Howard Stern and vile online gossip Perez Hilton. Read More