The recent U.S. TikTok ban got the whole world talking and certainly got us thinking. Not many would've thought that an application as popular and ingrained in our lives as TikTok could just be taken ...

Republican Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina is proposing a bill to ban trans people from all federal buildings across the country that detractors say will "not protect or promote anyone's ...

Infant mortality and births increased in the majority of states that had abortion bans in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, according to two new studies.

PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

A free speech advocacy group warned that book censorship in public schools across the United States has become "rampant and common," with book bans increasing significantly over the last few years.

Authors say that the effort to ban books about race is "censorship." At the American Library Association, annual reports are collected to monitor efforts by parents and political groups to ban books ...

When the Instagram account of free-expression institution PEN America dropped successive posts last week about cat and dog related books that have recently been challenged for inappropriate content in ...

President Donald Trump ordered a travel ban on June 4, barring residents of 12 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East, from entering the United States as a risk to national security. The ban ...

The findings showed the highest mortality occurred among infants who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth defects. By Pam Belluck Infant mortality increased along with births in ...