In the last several months, the U.S. has had some of its most meaningful discussions on the issue of gay rights. It started before the 2012 elections, when President Barack Obama became the first sitting...

I winced when I saw the comments the mother of the Tsarneav brothers made last week about the Boston Marathon bombings — how it was all fake and her sons were being framed because they’re Muslim....

I have 14 days. 336 hours. 20,160 minutes. 1,209,600 seconds until my adventure in Washington, D.C. comes to an end. My soon-to-be-used storage boxes lie in front of my door staring at me as I come and...

Many students, when they have 10 pages to write, find themselves on Tumblr, Facebook or Reddit. The last on that list is known for its r/aww thread providing the world with thousands of adorable animals...

Carla Hale was a physical education teacher at Bishop Watterson High School, a Catholic school in Ohio, for 19 years. She stayed in the closet about her sexuality and kept her lesbian partner a secret...

If you haven’t heard already, Boston University is in the throes of Student Goverment elections. We here at the good ol’ Free Press wondered what each college would make its campaign slogan.   COM:...

There’s a theorem that has yet to fail me in life. Or rather, it has yet to fail me since I realized its existence all those semesters ago when I was just a young, impressionable freshman living in the...

The day I first put on my varsity cheerleading uniform was the best day of my life. The too-short skirt made me look more Kardashian than ever, if that’s possible. There was also the red, white and blue...

So remember when you could buy things online from Delaware and not pay a sales tax? Well, that luxury may be coming to an end. The Marketplace Fairness Act, backed by Amazon.com, won by a landslide when...

Though you might have missed it, there are going to be significant developments to the fast food giants Taco Bell and McDonald’s. Both corporations announced changes they are undertaking in order to...

There is a candidate in the Vicksburg, Miss. mayoral race with a backstory most people would never discuss. On Wednesday, Linda Fondren revealed her history as a “working girl” in a television interview...

In the midst of a nine-day manhunt for ex-police officer Christopher Dorner in Los Angeles, LA Police Department officers fired more than 100 shots at Emma Hernandez, 71, and her daughter, Margie Carranza,...