Muezzins issuing high-decibel calls to prayer have long been part of Saudi identity, but a crackdown on mosque loudspeakers is among contentious reforms seeking to shake off the Muslim kingdom's austere image. - 'Eliminated rivals' - In another shift,...

"To my knowledge, this was not an attack on the LGBTQ community," said the president of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus.

Days before her body was found, Catherine Serou texted her mom saying, "In a car with a stranger. I hope I'm not being abducted," NPR reported.

“Being a black woman, being a Black trans woman, and then being in the South, that’s more of a fight, every day.” “I was really going through a hard time, all the media, just in my face, then all these anti-trans bills popping up.” “I’m...

From inside the walls of Folsom State Prison, the two inmates, one a convicted murderer, clinked their cups of prison moonshine in a toast to the new district attorney of Los Angeles, George Gascón.