A group of Democratic senators says the data could help LGBTQ people better access social services and civil rights protections. Some privacy experts worry the data could be used against people.
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Fifty years ago, Charlie Brown lost his beach ball. It was found and returned to him by a boy named Franklin. The simple encounter of two boys on a beach was how cartoonist Charles Schulz introduced the first black character in his widely read comic strip, "Peanuts."
The federal budget year ends Sept. 30, and lawmakers in both the House and Senate have a short window of working days to approve a spending bill before government funding expires.
Cleveland-based Judge Dan Polster, who is overseeing more than 800 of the lawsuits in federal court, ruled Thursday that the data cannot be made public, saying that doing so would reveal trade secrets and "eviscerate" the terms under which the information was shared.
Like many employers, Belden couldn't find enough workers for its Indiana factory. So it started a first-of-its-kind program which pays for drug treatment to job applicants failing drug tests.
The discussion around Minneapolis' comprehensive plan proposal has been especially heated, as the city tries to accommodate a growing population while confronting a zoning code that's historically hurt racial minorities.
During her hourlong interview on Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel show Thursday, repeated her assertion that she did not know Valerie Jarrett was black when she likened Jarrett to a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and a "Planet of the Apes" actor.
The Minneapolis Office of Police Conduct Review says it found eight cases in the past two years where officers were involved in deciding whether paramedics should sedate citizens.
A federal judge in New York said the commerce secretary's decision to add the controversial question to the 2020 census may have been "motivated at least in part by discriminatory animus."
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