Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida told ABC's "This Week" that he has enough experience, and is ready, to be president in 2016. He also took aim at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a likely Democratic candidate for president.
Some of the Nigerian girls who managed to escape after armed men from the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped them last month shared their stories, while the governor of the state where the incident took place says more than 200 girls still..
More than a dozen same-sex marriage licenses were issued for the first time in a Bible Belt state Saturday after a state judge declared Arkansas' voter-approved ban on gay wedding to be unconstitutional.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has objected to the decision of Harvard University to allow a Satanic group from New York to hold a "Black Mass," an event scheduled for Monday evening that is being portrayed as "educational."
Bishop T.D. Jakes, the founding pastor of the 30,000-member The Potter's House in Dallas, Texas, shared in an interview with a mainstream media what he hated most about megachurches. It's the cult of personality surrounding their pastors.
In the presidential weekly address on Mother's Day weekend, the first lady, Michelle Obama, said she and her husband are "outraged and heartbroken" over the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls in "whom Barack and I see our own daughters."
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has responded to an abortion activist's recent filming of her own abortion and portrayal of it as "a positive abortion story," saying she could only think of the words "I Aborted My Baby, So Hear Me Roar" to describe he..
Weeks after Google pulled pro-life ads from its "abortion clinics" search results, Yahoo has also followed suit after being petitioned by the pro-choice groups NARAL Pro-Choice America and UltraViolet.
A council election candidate has resigned from Britain's ruling Conservative Party with immediate effect, apologizing for posting anti-Islamic and anti-gay comments on Twitter.
A former officer from the New York Police Department has been arrested on hate crime charges for allegedly spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on cars and buildings in a Brooklyn neighborhood with a large Jewish presence.
Oprah Winfrey was among the more than 200 guests at the same-sex marriage of TV couple Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, the first gay couple to marry inside the New York Public Library.
Hundreds of people had to flee Sunday after a deadly wildfire burning across 4,000 acres killed a 56-year-old man and destroyed several homes in Oklahoma, according to officials, who said the fire is 75 percent contained but still threatens at least ..
The U.K.-based Sunday Assembly, or the "atheist Church," which has congregations also in the United States, is holding its first "general assembly" to establish a church-like management system and discuss governing principles and "doctrines."
A man suspected of fatally shooting two people, including a 13-year-old girl, at an Arkansas home as well as a worker at a nearby business, was found dead inside a car Saturday. Four others were also shot, two of whom are said to be critically wounde..
President Barack Obama, who was joined by journalists, politicians and Hollywood stars at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday, poked fun at himself and his signature healthcare law. But he didn't spare media, Republicans nor Cong..
A federal court heard oral arguments Friday and is expected to decide on the fate of Indiana's ban on same-sex marriage next week, about a month after it granted an emergency request to require the state to recognize the out-of-state marriage of a le..
Four secular organizations, including the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and the Secular Coalition for America, have formed a coalition, Openly Secular, to "eliminate discrimination and increase acceptance" by encouraging atheists ..
A massive landslide triggered by heavy rains in northeastern Afghanistan buried a village Friday, killing at least 2,100 people and displacing thousands of others. U.S. President Barack Obama has offered help even as further landslide is feared at th..
A poll released Monday shows that almost half of Colorado residents have tried marijuana, which includes 15 percent of those who used it after its recreational use became legal Jan. 1. And more than 50 percent say legalized pot is good for the state,..
Amid public debate sparked by Prime Minister David Cameron's recent statement that Britain is a Christian nation – a view supported by more than half the country's public – former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, tells a newspaper that Brita..