In our country, the LGBT community has a track record of unleashing some of the most pivotal and historic luminaries of all-time; bringing a rather neo-cosmopolitan flair to the times and introducing agendas that have influenced foreign diplomats to grandiose artists and everywhere in-between across the globe.

Steven Slater, a JetBlue flight attendant blew his top on an incoming flight at Kennedy Airport on Monday, dropped the F-bomb over the intercom and bolted down an emergency slide.

So Google and Verizon went public today with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it.

A bulletproof vest saved the life of a city cop shot by one of his NYPD colleagues Sunday in a wild Harlem shootout that left two men riddled with police bullets. Luis Soto, 22, died after being shot six times. The fatal bullet tore through his lungs, heart and kidney The police said Soto was […]

California Congresswoman Maxine Waters has taken a virtually unprecedented step. She is challenging the House Ethics Committee to fully release the entire report on her alleged ethics violation.

While we’ve been obsessing over LeBron James’s decision and Brett Favre’s indecision, a real story – one of staggering importance – has pretty much been ignored. It’s a story of the NFL finally facing the truth about the frightening nature of head injuries, a story that could one faraway day lead football down the same […]

It was bad enough when Kimberly Hay’s family, riding the Metro to the Kennedy Center on Friday night to watch “Mary Poppins,” saw three youths assault a terrified young rider reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” by aiming an aerosol can at his face and spraying.

For the second week in a row, a carnival has decided to have a mock Obama figure used as target practice. Last week, a Hellertown, Pennsylvania carnival had an Obama caricature on a wall and people shooting at it.

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Federal scientists said last week that nearly three-quarters of the oil from the BP oil debacle has been removed by various artificial or natural means, but that the spill’s effect on wildlife will long continue. Filmmaker Spike Lee says that the U.S. government report is a “lie.”

President Obama, making the case that “education is an economic issue,” called on Monday for the United States to produce an additional eight million college graduates by 2020 — enough for the nation to reclaim its title as the country with the highest percentage of college graduates.