PROTESTS OVER RUSSIAN ANTI-GAY LAW FOCUS ON SOCHI
By DAVID CRARY FILE – In this Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013 file photo, demonstrators stage a theatrical play where gays are grabbed by others wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir…
Human rights and civil liberties
HOLDER OFFERS ASSURANCES ON SURVEILLANCE
By PETE YOST Attorney General Eric Holder pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing oversight hearing on the Justice…
OBAMA: SEX ASSAULT AN AFFRONT TO DECENCY, HUMANITY
By NEDRA PICKLER FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Justice Department in Washington. President Barack Obama is launching an initiative to…
RIGHTS GROUP CALLS FOR ‘REAL PRESSURE’ ON SYRIA
By FRANK JORDANS Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during the annual press conference of the non governmental organization in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. The…
MLK DISCUSSES KENNEDY IN REDISCOVERED 1960 TAPE
By LUCAS L. JOHNSON II FILE – In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, President Kennedy stands with a group of leaders of the March on Washington at the White…
3 GAY REPUBLICANS TRYING TO MAKE ELECTION HISTORY
By STEVE PEOPLES In this Jan. 13, 2014 photo, New Hampshire Republican Congressional candidate Dan Innis, right, poses with his partner Doug Palardy, in Portsmouth, N.H. The GOP’s formal platform,…
OBAMA BACKS LIMITS ON NSA PHONE COLLECTIONS
By JULIE PACE FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the…
S SUDAN: ‘HORRIFYING HUMAN RIGHTS DISASTER’
FILE – In this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 file photo, a man unloads food assistance supplied by the International Red Cross which arrived in the morning by truck to help…