Iowa Republican lawmakers are seeking to remove an exemption in Iowa's obscenity law that protects libraries and educational ...

The Iowa Library Association said the bill ... nearly 3,400 books had been removed from Iowa schools because of the law, including classics such as "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Color Purple ...

Protesters filled the Iowa Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights ...

The state Senate was first to approve the bill ... rights code 2 men were publicly caned for having sex with each other in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh Iowa’s current civil rights law protects ...

The presidential dressing down of Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky in the White House has sparked an international ...

The Georgia legislature is considering a new bill aimed at preventing ... would disproportionately target books by LGBTQ authors and authors of color. Christoper Bruce, policy director for the ...

"Unfortunately, these common-sense protections were at risk because, before I signed this bill, the Civil Rights Code blurred the ... based on race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, national ...

Senate Bill 13 would create school library advisory ... who say it would make it easier for school districts to target and remove books about people of color and involving LGBTQ+ characters.

SB 13 is authored by Sen. Angela Paxton. The bill would shift decision-making power over school library materials from librarians to school boards, requiring board approval for all new books and ...

The bill, S.69 — known as the “Kids Code” by proponents — will land on the Senate floor for a vote once the Legislature reconvenes after the week-long Town Meeting break. The legislation ...

Bill Murray and Bob Woodward reportedly exchanged “tense” words over the Watergate reporter’s book on John Belushi when they came face-to-face at the Kennedy Center over the weekend.

Rhode Island has seen an increase in attempts to ban books from school libraries ... This year's effort to push the bill over the finish line began Thursday with an old-fashioned State House ...