An activist posting on the online petition platform Change.org has obtained more than 2,000 signatures on a letter to President Obama to give "wrongfully accused" Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a fair trial
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson found a friend in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Tuesday, as the pair urged the president to posthumously pardon heavyweight champion Jack Johnson of what Reid called "a racially motivated criminal conviction."
A petition calling on Victoria’s Secret to drop Bright Young Things, a marketing campaign it says “targets teens and tweens with the same type of sexy and sexualized products sold in their adult line,” has gathered over 11,000 signatures at Change.org, a popular web platform for social activism.
When PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came from a high school student who had made it her mission to get rid of the ingredient.
On Monday, the Boy Scouts of America announced they will be considering lifting their long-standing ban on homosexual members and leaders. The announcement comes as a surprise, given the Boy Scouts' reaffirmation of their stance against homosexual membership just last summer.
Mosquito control officials in the Florida Keys are waiting for the federal government to sign off on an experiment that would release hundreds of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce the risk of dengue fever in the tourist town of Key West.
Ex-cons and their supporters say they are tired of formerly incarcerated residents being discriminated against, so they are using any means necessary to change their circumstances.
Jeanne Maddox-Columna says she is not about to let some greedy retailers step on her "Waltons moment" this Thanksgiving.
The seven-year streak of lost races by Teddy Roosevelt, the bobble-headed racing president known for his permanent smile and ability to lose in creative fashion, ended Wednesday afternoon at Nationals Park in the final game of the regular season. The streak was 538 games old.
