Floyd Corkins, who pleaded guilty to shooting a Family Research Council employee last year, was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison. Corkins at the time said that he disagreed with the organization's firm stance against gay marriage
Tom Delay, the former U.S. House Majority Leader, won an appeal in a Texas court to overturn his money laundering conviction citing a lack of sufficient evidence, and has been acquitted him of all charges
President Barack Obama said that he will be open to direct talks between Iran and the United States but only if the Muslim country is serious about getting rid of its nuclear weapons program, the White House said on Thursday.
While deemed as one of the greatest American novels written since World War II, Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" has been banned from school libraries in Randolph County, North Carolina. The novl has long been seen as a seminal work of fiction, which deals with the honest realities of race in America.
