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Gavin Grimm, 17, a transgender student seen at home in Gloucester, Virginia, on Aug. 21, 2016, sued the Gloucester County School Board after it prohibited him from the using the boys' restroom at school.

Transgender teen to press Supreme Court case despite Trump administration guidance

August 21, 2019 at 10:19 p.m.

Attorneys for a transgender teen who sued his school board for barring him from the boys' bathroom said Thursday that they plan to continue to press his case before the...

The small town of Eighty Four, Pa. is located in the state's southwest corner, about 30 miles from Pittsburgh.

Super Bowl ad on immigration draws attention to tiny Pa. town of Eighty Four

June 6, 2018 at 1:01 a.m.

All it took was a few minutes of lush, expensive, emotional advertising during the Super Bowl to pull this little town in the far southwestern corner of Pennsylvania into the...

Demonstrators participate in a protest march on August 9, 2015 on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, marking the one year anniversary of an unarmed black teen, Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by a white police officer, throwing America's troubled race relations into harsh relief.

Police gunfire: Unarmed black men 7 times more likely to die than whites

June 22, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

It begins with a relatively minor incident: A traffic stop. A burglary. A disturbance. Police arrive and tensions escalate. It ends with an unarmed black man shot dead. That pattern...

Same-sex marriage snarling GOP hopefuls

May 14, 2019 at 5:16 a.m.

Republican presidential hopefuls are struggling with how to position themselves on same-sex marriage, an issue that is bedeviling a party hoping to avoid social controversies as the 2016 election approaches....

Melissa Grant, left, and Christopher Purdy are shown in the temporary offices of Carafem, a new clinic in Friendship Heights, Maryland, that offers the abortion pill in a "spa-like" environment. Grant is Carafem's vice president of health services and Purdy is Carafem's president and CEO.

New spa-like abortion clinic is part of a trend to ‘destigmatize’ the procedure

August 18, 2019 at 7:05 p.m.

With its natural wood floors and plush upholstery, Carafem aims to feel more like a spa than a medical clinic. But the slick ads set to go up in Metro...

Was Michael Brown surrendering or advancing to attack Officer Darren Wilson?

August 18, 2019 at 6:20 p.m.

Just before Michael Brown was felled by police bullets, he turned to face the officer, Darren Wilson, who had been in pursuit. Then, at the climax of an incident that...

18 grads get presidential treatment

August 22, 2021 at 3:49 a.m.

President George W. Bush delivered on Sunday the commencement address for a graduating class of 18 students whose high school was leveled by a tornado last year that wiped out...

Black history tourism opens eyes, minds

August 22, 2021 at 1:53 p.m.

Some clutch their stomachs or weep when they step into one of the galleries at a Baltimore museum of African-American history. The so-called lynching room is a stomach-turning display of...

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