Op-Ed Columnist: How Donald Trump Opened the Door to Roy Moore

In 2002, the Alabama Supreme Court issued a ruling in a child custody battle between a lesbian mother and an allegedly abusive father. The parents had originally lived in Los Angeles, and when they divorced in 1992, the mother received primary physical custody.

Mayor Emanuel Congratulates Over 31,000 Youth On Successfully…

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today congratulated more than 31,000 youth for successfully completing the One Summer Chicago job program. The 12 week program provided youth ages 14-24 with job training, mentoring opportunities, continuing education programming and more.

Return to the Keys after Hurricane Irma comes with a warning

As residents in the Middle and Lower Keys were told they could return home from their Hurricane Irma evacuation almost two weeks ago, city and county leaders warned of the camping-like conditions that include no potable water and in some areas a lack of power. "We understand that people are anxious to return to their homes and to begin damage assessment," said City Manager Jim Scholl.

How free school lunches are a free lunch for Democrats

Having found a federal program that provides funding, America's largest public school system is offering free lunches for students regardless of family income. In New York City's public schools, 75 percent of students enrolled already qualify for free lunches -- which is one of the highest rates of participation in the whole country.

Barack Obama Responds to Donald Trump’s Decision to End DACA

Now, , who introduced the program during his time as president, is responding to what many are calling an unconscionably cruel decision. The former president, who has spoken out against President Donald Trump's policies on a few occasions, released a statement regarding the news on Facebook.

Do Conversations About Race Belong in the Classroom?

In 1997, Beverly Daniel Tatum, one of the country's foremost authorities on the psychology of racism, answered a recurring question that surfaced in her work with teachers, administrators, and parent groups: Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? The result was a critically acclaimed book of the same name that gave readers-numbering in the hundreds of thousands-a starting point to demystify conversations about race, better understand the concept of racial identity, and communicate across racial and ethnic divides. sitting together.

The Latest: Trump decision on immigrant kids coming Tuesday

Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, right, speaks in support of allowing residency for some of the young people who immigrated illegally to the United States with their parents in Modesto, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. At left is Tomas Evangelista, who crossed the border from Mexico as a child and qualified under an Obama-era executive order that Denham would like to extend through an act of Congress.

Nelson calls on HHS to oversee state’s handling of 13,000 kids removed from CMS

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson today called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services "to exercise its oversight and enforcement authority" to protect more than 13,000 Florida children with special needs who were improperly removed from the state's specialized care program, known as Children's Medical Services. Nelson's request comes on the heels of recent reports that despite a Florida judge's ruling two years ago that required the state to stop using a new screening tool that declared thousands of kids ineligible for the state's specialized care program, the state of Florida has still not yet notified all of the families who were improperly removed from the program to provide them an opportunity to reenroll.

U.S. not getting kids to eat veggies, critique of claim says

The Department of Agriculture has invested seven years and several million dollars in a popular program that claims it gets students to eat significantly more fruits and vegetables. But as a recent critique of the research behind the program reveals, "significantly more" often means an amount as small as a single bite of an apple.

4 more religious sect members arrested in New Mexico

Four members of a New Mexico paramilitary religious sect rocked by child sexual abuse allegations were arrested while trying to flee the state in two vans full of children, authorities said Thursday. Cibola County Sheriff Tony Mace confirmed to The Associated Press that the four members of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps were arrested late Wednesday as deputies tried to execute a court order to pick up the children for interviews from the group's isolated compound in western New Mexico.

Renacci says ‘liberal’ Husted running a “dishonest campaign”

The U.S. House member from Wadsworth posted a video on Twitter that claimed Husted has a "liberal record" while portraying the two-term secretary of state as dishonest and "not as conservative as he pretends to be." Renacci's campaign said the video was in response to a Tweet by a pro-Husted super-PAC, Ohio Conservatives for a Change, that questioned the congressman's support for drug education for children in Ohio schools.