President Obama condemned the ongoing military sexual assault crisis in his commencement address at the United States Naval Academy. Read More

The rate has fallen by half since the early 90s, and racial gaps are shrinking. Yet, American teens give birth at five to 10 times the rate of their peers in Scandinavia and Western Europe. Read More

Charles Ramsey was enjoying a burger when he stopped to help the Cleveland kidnapping victims escape. Now he'll never have a problem getting another burger. Read More

First lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also made the Forbes list, which is comprised of 100 women from around the world. Read More

In his first major national security speech of his second term, the president is expected to announce a new course against terror which will include changing his administration's use of drones to kill suspected terrorists. Read More

More than 1,300 activists and politicians signed a call to close the Guantanamo internment camp in an ad featured in Thursday's New York Times on the morning of the president's national security speech. Read More

Leaders have been saying there's "no silver bullet" to solve the issue of sexual assault in the military for years. Maybe it's time to stop the echo. Read More

The president's rationale for force-feeding Gitmo hunger strikers is hard to square with his promise to "restore America's standing in the world." Read More

"MHP" guest Valarie Kaur and a health professional argue that the spotlight on Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy should open up our scope to other women's illnesses deserving attention. Read More

The search for tornado survivors went on, even as the dead began to be identified. The Oklahoma medical examiner confirmed 24 fatalities, and hundreds more injured. Read More

Contributions will assist with buying supplies, materials, diesel for emergency vehicles, and food for responders helping victims of the tornado that razed Moore, Okla., Monday. Read More

Governor Peter Shumlin signed a law allowing physicians to a lethal dose of medication to prescribe dying, mentally competent patients who want to end their lives. Read More

The nomination of E.W. Jackson during Saturday’s Virginia GOP convention is about to make an already lively off-year contest in the Old Dominion even more interesting. Read More

f a bus driver is subject to random drug testing --and after all, he’s got your kids’ lives in his hands –- well, shouldn’t a doctor e subjected to random drug testing, too? Read More

“Women actually have told me they’d limit the intake of fluid in the late afternoon, early evening, so they don’t have to use the latrine late at night in the middle of the night, because they’re worried about sexual assault,” North Carolina’s Sen. Kay Hagan said on Monday's Morning Joe. Read More

"We need to look at whether the chain of command can deal with the multitude of issues that arise in sexual assaults," said Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore Sunday. Read More

Angelina Jolie's op-ed in the New York Times, in which she talked about her double mastectomy, raised awareness about breast cancer and the gene, BRCA1, that puts women at high risk of developing the disease. Read More

The class of 2013 gets recognized in #nerdland, as do fast food strikers -- and Angelina Jolie's big decision highlights a discussion about the politics of breast cancer on Sunday's "MHP." Read More

Try taking the Food Stamp challenge, Congress—that means eating on a budget of about one dollar per person, per meal. Then maybe you'll have different feelings about cutting billions of dollars in funding to programs that feed the hungry. Read More