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The Washington Times is denying a religious discrimination claim by the paper's former opinion editor.
The former opinion editor of The Washington Times has filed a religious discrimination complaint against the paper.
A former editor for the New York Post has sued the newspaper, saying she was fired for labeling as racist a cartoon that critics said likened President Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee.
Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald Sterling has agreed to pay a record $2.73 million to settle allegations by the government that he refused to rent apartments to Hispanics, blacks and to families with children, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
A premier Dublin golf club can continue to bar women from membership, the Irish Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a discrimination case inspired by similar protests against men-only clubs in the United States.
The Lawry's restaurant chain agreed Monday to pay more than $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed it barred men from waiting tables at its high-end steakhouses.
State historical markers outside the headquarters of Lufkin Industries Inc. tell how the company started repairing sawmill equipment at the turn of the 20th century and grew to make many of the pumps dotting the world's oil fields.
- A woman's "paramount destiny and mission," a U.S. Supreme Court justice once wrote, is to fulfill "the noble and benign offices of wife and mother."
Democrats want to counter a recent Supreme Court ruling that makes it harder for older workers to prove they are the victims of age discrimination.
A former pharmacist at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. who claimed she was fired after asking to be paid the same as her male colleagues is entitled to $2 million in damages awarded by a jury, the state's highest court ruled Monday.
Federal prosecutors have announced a settlement with a Los Angeles-based bank that was sued along with two auto dealerships for allegedly charging non-Asian customers higher interest rates on car loans.
Nearly one in three borrowers who applied for a mortgage last year was denied as lenders kept their standards tight as the mortgage crisis accelerated, the government reported Wednesday.
Sears Holdings Corp. has agreed to pay a record $6.2 million to settle allegations that it illegally fired disabled employees.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the State Department are being sued by a diplomat who claims she was discriminated against because of her age.
A southern Utah school district says it plans to appeal a Utah Labor Commission judge's ruling that its officials engaged in racial profiling and prejudice when they rejected a man from India for a substitute teaching position shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A judge for the Utah Labor Commission has ruled that school officials engaged in racial profiling and prejudice when they rejected a man from India for a substitute teaching position shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A Mexican official says discrimination against Mexicans in the United States is growing and is most pronounced in areas where immigration is relatively new.
A Los Angeles taqueria owner has been ordered to pay more than $46,000 for firing a worker because she used her break time to breastfeed her baby.
The Los Angeles City Council has voted unanimously to pay $8.1 million to two firefighters who won separate discrimination and retaliation lawsuits against the fire department in 2007.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has completed another round of questioning about accusations that the financial data and news service he once headed discriminated against women.
The city has discriminated against minorities in its hiring of firefighters, causing blacks and Hispanics to comprise only 10 percent of the fire department's work force even though most city residents are minorities, a judge ruled Wednesday.
The nation's largest free classified advertisement publisher is facing a federal housing discrimination lawsuit.
Before buying Boeing Co.'s commercial airplane operations in Kansas and Oklahoma, Canadian investment conglomerate Onex Corp. discussed in e-mails plans to reduce the age of the work force to cut costs, according to recently released court documents in an age-discrimination lawsuit.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is considering new rules to protect older workers from job discrimination after a spate of recent Supreme Court decisions made it harder to prove age bias in the workplace.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing retail giant Kmart for employment discrimination, alleging that the company fired an employee because he used a cane.
"We're not in church. This is your Tampa City Council and we're legislators."(from the TBT* section) THUMBS UP "We're not in church. This is your Tampa City Council and we're legislators. When I look at my responsibility here, it does have to do with, as one of the speakers said, liberty and justice for all."
NGO's Jewish-Arab index: socioeconomic gaps growingThe social, economic, health and educational gaps between Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens are continuing to grow, mostly as a result of unfair government policies and prejudice from the Jewish population
A fair wage for a fair day's workPay equity is a relatively cheap, reasonably easy-to-apply mechanism to rid the workplace of historic, systemic wage discrimination against women.
Metrosexuals banned to curb violenceA PARTY promoter has banned "metrosexuals" from a popular club night in a bid to stamp out violence.
Egypt gripped by 'veil martyr' trialForeign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki welcomed the verdict, saying it "served justice" and was "a warning to those motivated by hate".
Judge: State discriminating between Jews, Arabs "Nazareth Juvenile Court acquits teen accused of attempting to sabotage police car during Operation Cast Lead, criticizing State's 'systematic selective enforcement' "
When girls wear tuxes and boys wear heelsThe Western world has been divided into male/female for many years. This division is slowly dissolving, and not surprisingly it is our young people who are pushing this crusade.
Student expelled after row over short dress - Yahoo! NewsBrazilian student expelled from university over thigh high mini dress....
Expunging Christ: The Crucifix and the NationThe principle of the European Union's court to override Italy's constitution and laws is a disturbing sign for us here in the USA. There is a powerful lesson in precedent concerning what a nation is and how the Bible treats the nation's place in our lives.
Greens challenge Rudd on gay marriagePrime Minister Kevin Rudd has been asked to allow Labor MPs a free parliamentary vote on gay marriage.
U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant society Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.
Niles couple banned from Wal-Mart after dispute over BIC lightersThe two Bic multipurpose lighters and a package of smaller lighters Joe Paolucci bought at the Niles Wal-Mart on Aug. 16 cost $15.84.
Why don't feminists think porn empowers women?"What is feminist about discriminating a [sic] photo shoot just because it involves female (partial) nudity that happens to give men pleasure?" So glad you asked!
Living in a Sizeist Society: Woman Attacked on Evening CommuteBritish businesswoman Martha Coupe was sitting in an almost-empty train car on the way back from work. Suddenly, someone screamed "You big fat pig" before physically attacking Coupe, leaving her with forty bruises and one eye swollen shut.
Woman Wins Age Discrimination Case Against Country ClubBOSTON -- A woman who was laid off as a sales manager at a Cape Cod country club because she was over 50 years old has been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and compensation, the state said.
Wiccan Employee Files Sexual Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against GoogleAmerican Express was one of these Corporate discriminators as well against several Wiccans. None of those tech workers in Phoenix sued, although they did engage the EEOC. We were given the the authenticated documentation to prove this so it's fact and not fiction!
Religions unite against far right's call to ban minaretsSwitzerland's biggest Jewish groups have described a far-right push to ban the construction of minarets as a ''threat'' to religious harmony and the integration of Muslims.
Assimilation Overkill Begets BigotryRoughly a quarter of a century ago, when the manager hired me to a much coveted job in the lowest echelons of management in a reputable corporation, I believed it was on the merits of my resume and real time presentation.
Transsexual wins apology over passportA TRANSSEXUAL has won a written apology from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the distress she experienced as a result of having to travel on a passport that identified her as a man.
MALAWI: Hilda Malikebu, "Disability is not inability" 
U.S. resists anti-defamation resolutionThe Obama administration on Monday came out strongly against efforts by Islamic nations to bar the defamation of religions, saying the moves would restrict free speech.
Why Health Care Reform Is More Important Than EverYou're away for work on a business trip. You go out to a bar and two men offer to buy you a drink. The next thing you know you wake up on the side of the road with cuts and bruises on your body indicating that you were raped. The men who bought you drinks had drugged you.
Haredi teargases woman for using 'men only' sidewalkThe alleged attack occured about two weeks ago, during the Sukkot holiday, as the woman was walking on a "men only" sidewalk, and refused Kraus' demand that she move to the women's side.
Kurdish Teens Jailed Under Turkish Anti-Terror Law Pose Reconciliation ChallengeEarlier this year, 16-year-old Hasan Dündar was walking home on an Adana street, not far from where there had been a clash between security forces and stone-throwing Kurdish youths protesting government policies.
p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 12px;">Larry Whitten, a 63year-old Texan, has required that Hispanic employees at his Taos, New Mexico hotel to change their names to English sounding ones and not to …
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