El Paso (United States) (AFP) - Exactly 146 days after leaving home in El Salvador, a petite, soft-spoken woman named Yolanda sat in a Texas courtroom seeking to reunite with her year-old grandson and teenage daughter, separated when they crossed the Mexican border.

TAMPA, Fla. _ A team of eight victims' rights attorneys on Tuesday filed the first of what they promise will be a series of lawsuits against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige, on behalf of defectors who say they suffered a range of exploitation from child abuse,…

LOS ANGELES _ Prosecutors are poring through dozens of digital devices as they build their case against the leader of La Luz del Mundo church, a man known by followers as "the apostle" of Jesus Christ and who has been charged with various counts of sex abuse, including forcible rape…

LOS ANGELES _ The dance floor inside the Music Center flowed with bodies swinging their hips, bronzed arms gliding, feet shuffling across the floor. Turntables whirled with the sounds of cumbia, bachata, corrido and musica nortena.

Men need to be educated that a forced wife is not a wife, she is a slave.

The administration’s hard-line anti-abortion stance is undermining women’s rights and U.S. development aid around the world, critics say.