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Feb. 17, 2012: A student walks past the entrance of Brigham Young University in Provo. (Reuters) An LGBTQ advocacy group has sent a letter to the commissioner of the Big 12 urging the conference to remove BYU from consideration for membership because it says the school has discriminatory policies. Athlete Ally, a nonprofit group that works with sports leagues and organizations on educational and awareness programs, wrote in a...

Feb. 17, 2012: A student walks past the entrance of Brigham Young University in Provo. (Reuters) An LGBTQ advocacy group has sent a letter to the commissioner of the Big 12 urging the conference to remove BYU from consideration for membership because it says the school has discriminatory policies. Athlete Ally, a nonprofit group that works with sports leagues and organizations on educational and awareness programs, wrote in a...

Feb. 17, 2012: A student walks past the entrance of Brigham Young University in Provo. (Reuters) An LGBTQ advocacy group has sent a letter to the commissioner of the Big 12 urging the conference to remove BYU from consideration for membership because it says the school has discriminatory policies. Athlete Ally, a nonprofit group that works with sports leagues and organizations on educational and awareness programs, wrote in a...

Nov. 27, 2015: Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, left, and his chief of staff Josh Alpert visit the Hazelnut Groove homeless camp in North Portland, Ore. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP, File) PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Mayor Charlie Hales on Tuesday aounced the end of pilot program that allowed homeless people to sleep on the streets undisturbed by law enforcement, saying it created confusion because some believed it legalized public camping, but defended his overall approach. The so-called "Safe Sleeping Guidelines" policy will end immediately, but several other pilot programs that also were rolled out in February in the famously liberal City of Roses will continue or even expand, the ma...

Nov. 27, 2015: Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, left, and his chief of staff Josh Alpert visit the Hazelnut Groove homeless camp in North Portland, Ore. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP, File) PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Mayor Charlie Hales on Tuesday aounced the end of pilot program that allowed homeless people to sleep on the streets undisturbed by law enforcement, saying it created confusion because some believed it legalized public camping, but defended his overall approach. The so-called "Safe Sleeping Guidelines" policy will end immediately, but several other pilot programs that also were rolled out in February in the famously liberal City of Roses will continue or even expand, the ma...

In this Thursday, May 12, 2016 file photo, signage is seen outside a restroom at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, N.C. (AP) A transgender student filed a lawsuit against a Wisconsin school district Tuesday, alleging that the district won’t let him use the boys’ restrooms and repeatedly uses his female birth name, violating federal anti-discrimination laws and the U.S. Constitution. The Transgender Law Center and the civil rights law firm Relman, Dane and Colfax PLLC filed the federal lawsuit in Milwaukee against the Kenosha school district. The filing states Ashton Whitaker, a 16-year-old student at Tremper High School, was designated a girl on his birth certificate but began identifying as a...

While Republicans prepare to welcome Mike Pence as their vice presidential nominee Wednesday night in Cleveland, Hillary Clinton is facing a ruing-mate dilemma as Democrats get ready for their national convention next week. For Clinton, her list of potential vice presidential picks once included a deep bench of feisty candidates all willing to take up the cause. But recent controversies involving several top contenders may be forcing the presumptive Democratic nominee’s hand in eyeing “safer” alteatives – namely Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine and USDA head Tom Vilsack. The hits came at a rapid clip this week for others on the short-list. One candidate thought to be an early favorite was U.S. ...

File photo - The new Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Nov. 13, 2015. (REUTERS/Stephen Lam) An age-discrimination lawsuit filed by two people who interviewed unsuccessfully for jobs at Google could expand to encompass other individuals if a motion filed this week is successful. The motion for conditional certification of collective action status was filed in a San Jose federal court Wednesday. Computerworld reports that the motion, which is similar to a class action, aims to include “all individuals who interviewed in-person for any software engineer, site reliability engineer, or systems engineer position with Google in the United States in the time...