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A Philadelphia mom is facing charges after she abandoned her son in the woods just to be with her boyfriend in Maryland.

A New Jersey theology teacher who was suspended last month after posting comments about homosexuality on Facebook was recently reinstated by the administrators of the Catholic school where she worked.

A 64-year-old Japanese man, who served as junior high school principal, was arrested Wednesday by authorities in Japan for filming sex acts with minors and producing child porn.

The Vatican is accused of rejecting France's gay ambassador to the Holy See.

The Obama administration is supporting the ban on conversion therapy for minors, saying that it shares the "concern about its potentially devastating effects on the lives of transgender as well as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer youth."

A 20-year-old man from Topeka, Kansas who was recruited by the U.S. Army in February last year was charged Friday with plotting to explode a bomb at a military base and provide help to the Islamic State (ISIS).

The son of Formula One champion Michael Schumacher completed his test run on Wednesday in Germany's Formula Four.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Tuesday a bill that bans dismemberment abortion, which was hailed by anti-abortion advocates.

The federal judge in Texas has denied the U.S. government's motion to lift the temporary injunction he issued last Febuary on the implementation of immigration reform programs.

The brother of slain black man Walter Scott, 50, who was shot several times in the back and killed by white traffic police officer Michael Slager, 33, in North Charleston, South Carolina, last Saturday, deplored the way his sibling died.

Potential Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush described it as a "mistake" when he listed "Hispanic" as his race in the Florida voter registration application in the Miami-Dade County in 2009.