This year 1.2 million girls and boys were victims of child trafficking. That means they were taken from their families. Sold into slavery. Forced to work 7 days a week with dangerous equipment. They endured beatings, malnutrition, and other forms of abuse

Without government benefits, many feel pressure to pull up stakes

Most Americans wouldn't give up their iPod, microwave oven, air conditioning, cell phone or computer, even if they thought it harmed the environment. 38 percent chose convenience, 35 percent chose comfort and 26 percent said the environment came first.

GREENVILLE, Alabama (CNN) -- Willie Thornton is on a rescue mission. One morning in March he set out to save Desmond Dunklin, a 19-year-old who should have graduated last year from Greenville High School in Greenville, Alabama.

Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person's social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism,

Of the approximately 500,000 American youth in foster care, Native American kids are faring among the worst, according to youth advocacy and policy experts.

OMAHA, Neb. - The state of Nebraska dedicated May 15 as Standing Bear Day amid a week of memorials. Commemorations celebrated the 130th anniversary of the Ponca chief's landmark court case, which declared American Indians were legally human...

TEMECULA, Calif. - A new Native-owned green energy company is promising to move tribal nations toward economic sovereignty by helping them develop their own renewable energy resources and getting off the grid. Donoma Energy was founded late last year,...

Thousands of demonstrators have rallied across Australia to demand greater government action to protect the environment.

The older I get, the luckier I feel not to have been busted for breaking a sex law. It's not that I have been doing anything particularly scandalous. Public sex sure isn't my thing, and I'm not in the habit of spamming my friends and colleagues with....