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Thiel, a billionaire investor, has caused friction in Silicon Valley, which has largely backed Hillary Clinton. But others who disagree with Thiel's views stand by his right to express them.

Such workshops are being closed across the U.S., more than 15 years after the Supreme Court said separate work settings constitute discrimination. But advocates say clients have nowhere else to go.

Whether or not she cares, princess-to-be Meghan Markle has become a symbol of biracial people's coming-of-age, and maybe of the country's collective adulthood on race, writes Karen Grigsby Bates.

David Greene talks to Lee Busby, who has thrown his hat in the ring for the open U.S. Senate seat in Alabama as a write-in candidate. The election is less than two weeks away.

The top Senate Democrat will introduce a bill to decriminalize pot at the federal level. It is one of the furthest-reaching legislative efforts by any congressional leader affecting marijuana policy.

Speaker Paul Ryan's quiet firing of the House chaplain, the Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, has erupted into a partisan fight on Capitol Hill.

She had to decide: Stick with math — ugh — and keep open career options in the sciences or go for the liberal arts. Looking back, she wishes she didn't have to make that choice.

State and federal officials say they found DNA evidence that ties two missing prison inmates to a remote area of northern New York about 30 miles west of Dannemora, N.Y.

Book programs for freshmen — and sometimes a whole campus or community — are meant to spark discussion and unity. This year's picks at eight U.S. schools range from chilling nonfiction to poetry.

The state passed a tough gun law in 2013, but the people "have repealed it on their own. They're just ignoring the law," says the head of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association.