Attorney General Loretta Lynch announces that the Justice Department is filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against North Carolina and Gov. Pat McCrory for the state's bathroom law.

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Forecasters say Irene's sustained hurricane-force winds have slammed into the North Carolina coast. Irene is expected to continue churning its way up the U.S. East Coast through some of the most densely populated areas of the United States.(Aug. 27).

The Confederate battle flag was removed from South Carolina's state capitol the morning of July 10, 2015, after Nikki Haley signed a bill passed by the state's legislature authorizing its removal. The flag will now be displayed at a nearby museum.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) took to the House floor on Friday and delivered a rip-roaring presentation against the “bigots” in North Carolina and their anti-LGBT bathroom bill HB 2. The speech was also historic and groundbreaking, according to the office of the U.S. House Communications Director, which

A Major 5.8 earthquake rattles the north east coast of the United States on Tuesday August 23, 2011 around 1:15 PM ET. The earthquake was felt in Washington DC and New York City as well as throughout the rest of the coastal states from South Carolina to Massachusets. The Pentagon was evacuated as ...

In the near future, the North Pole could truly be relegated to the realm of history. Since scientists started measuring winter sea ice, we’ve lost half a million square miles of it—and for every additional ton of carbon dioxide in the air, about 32 square feet of summer sea ice disappears. Robin

In this video, FlackCheck.org reviews some of the false and misleading claims about climate change that we have written about for FactCheck.org’s SciCheck feature. The topics covered include: “global cooling,” glacier growth in Alaska, the impact of human activity on climate change, the connection b

An effort to restore mangroves is underway in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula with a group of women working to restore a vital ecosystem under threat from development and climate change.

There is overwhelming evidence that humans are experiencing the effects of climate change, says a new report. Unless serious action is taken, this is likely to get worse, with growing risks of floods, food shortages, and threats to human health, warns the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on C...