Two years ago, the District of Columbia struggled to get a grip on its burgeoning HIV/AIDS cases which had reached pandemic proportions among the heterosexual population, giving the city notoriety as the leading AIDS infected jurisdiction in the nation.
When Twitter accounts "Purdue Asians" and "Kim Jong Il" (with the handles @OrientalSwag and @Purdue_Asian, respectively) started tweeting things like "I sreep for entire crass & stir get better grades than you! :D" Asian American students at Purdue found another reason to sign a petition being circulated for the establishment of an Asian/Asian American cultural center on campus.
MOAPA, Nev. (AP) -- Beyond the ancestral hunting fields and the rows of small, sparse homes, the cemetery at the Moapa River Indian Reservation sprawls across a barren hill with the tombstones of tribal members who died young.
(CNN) -- "Today is a big day for hip hop." When music impresario Russell Simmons penned those words and posted them Wednesday, he was not referring to a new album dropping or the debut of an exciting artist. He was talking about a male artist's admission that his first love was a man.
(CNN) -- Three days before Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died in a hazing incident last November, the campus police chief had suggested the suspension of the band because of hazings, a document released by the school shows.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be getting an estimated $40 million communications upgrade, signaling it will continue its mission of holding top suspected terrorists and as a major humanitarian aid base in the region.
(CNN) -- The campaigns for Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama played ping pong with political jibes Tuesday over a news report detailing Romney's overseas investments and bank accounts.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Facing budget constraints, state officials are moving ahead with a plan to shut down two prisons, including one with a well-established addictive treatment program, despite a growing inmate population.
(CNN) -- In the wake of last week's Supreme Court decision upholding the individual mandate in President Barack Obama's health care law, the debate on the campaign trail turned not to extending health care to nearly 50 million uninsured Americans, but to the language of the ruling.
(CNN) -- The judge overseeing the Trayvon Martin case in Florida set bond for George Zimmerman at $1 million on Thursday.