AIDS activists were arrested just outside the U.S. Capitol building yesterday while protesting President Obama's failure to honor his campaign promises to spend over $1 billion a year on global AIDS and to fund housing for HIV-positive people in need.

Health and human rights advocates have applauded moves by the U.S. government to repeal a 15-year-old ban on travel to the United States by HIV-positive foreign nationals.

Follow a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their homes and families behind and learn what it means to be new Americans in the 21st century. The seven-part series launches on most PBS stations across the United States this weekend.

One week after U.S. President Barack Obama re-opened the national conversation on immigration, much of the country's ethnic media have banded together to press Congress to make reform a reality this year.

A Native American boy is fighting a Texas school district for the right to keep his long hair. A small rural school district in Fort Bend County Texas wants to force Adriel Arocha to cut his hair in compliance with the terms of the school district's dress

As Obama struggles with the backlash from a Congress determined to keep Guantanamo terrorism suspects out of the US, his administration reportedly is preparing an executive order that gives him authority to hold prisoners indefinitely without trial.

The prevalence of hate crimes in the United States remains high, with attacks on Hispanics and those perceived to be immigrants rising sharply in recent years, says a civil rights organization.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a mining company can pump waste water into an Alaskan lake, in a decision that threatens to destroy aquatic life and sets an alarming precedent for waste disposal, says an environmental group.

The Washington DC subway was urged to replace or upgrade aging trains three years before a crash that has killed nine people, investigators have said.

The long-term detention of suspected terrorists at prisons like Guantanamo Bay is counterproductive to preventing attacks, testified the head of a human rights monitor, urging the U.S. to instead adhere to existing criminal laws & international standards.