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Photo: Zach Rudisin via Wikimedia Commons Amid growing calls for gun control measures in the wake of 17 deaths in a Florida high school shooting, President Donald Trump Tuesday said his administration is working to ban...

A group of students staged a protest outside the White House on Monday in the wake of deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that has spurred calls for stricter checks for gun buyers. The shooting at...

Photo: Varmin/Wikimedia Commons Governor Ralph Northam has welcomed the Republican-controlled House approval of a plan to extend Medicaid coverage for the low-income people in Virginia – reflecting compromise in a new political climate in Richmond in...

Photo: Chief Yeoman Alphonso Braggs, US-Navy/Wikimedia Commons With several days of cloudy skies, snowfall and rains this winter may have given the impression that traditionally cool winters after all are not a thing of the past....

Virginia State Capitol Photo: Anderskev/Wikimedia Commons Governor Ralph Northam’s office has announced a schedule for 2018 Virginia Governor’s Fellows Program that offers a select group of “outstanding and highly motivated individuals” the opportunity to experience firsthand...

A court in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore has handed death sentence to a man, Imran Ali Naqashbandi, who was found guilty of raping and murdering Zainab, a seven-year old girl, whose gruesome death last month outraged...

Photo: Screenshot/NBC News Thousands of people from Parkland community gathered for an emotional vigil after the city lost 17 students and teachers to one of the deadliest shootings in the United States. The perpetrator Nicholas Cruz, 19,...

Photo: Haim Schwarczenberg, https://schwarczenberg.com /Wikimedia Commons World human rights organizations are reacting to the Israeli military trial of Ahed Tamimi, 17-year-old Palestinian girl, with condemnation of disregard for her rights and called for her immediate release....

UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras The United States is paying tribute to the memory of Pakistani human rights champion Asma Jahangir, calling her untimely death of the global icon as a “great loss to the world.” “We join...

UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres paid tribute to Pakistani human rights champion, who passed away in Lahore on Sunday, calling her a “human rights giant” In addition to her lifelong struggles for rights of...