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Illinois state Sen. Linda Holmes on Thursday trumpeted the passage of HB 2675 -- a bill to mandate that state public schools offering sex education include information on contraception and STDs -- claiming that the current emphasis on an abstinence-only curriculum doesn't comport with reality.

The soulful and now short-haired singer Michael Bolton joined HuffPost Live for a wide-ranging conversation on music , sex , and even politics.

At a congressional hearing Thursday on an abortion bill that would ban the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Rep.

Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Jess H. Dickinson, left, listens as Justice Ann H. Lamar asks questions of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Feb.

The head of a pro-life group in Michigan made a controversial comparison on Wednesday, arguing that women in the state should be forced to pay extra for health insurance that covers abortions, even in cases of rape or incest.

An all-male panel of House lawmakers considered a bill on Thursday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy across the United States, without exceptions for rape, incest or health of the mother.

The AFI DOCS documentary film festival , having announced earlier this year that it would expand its venues in Washington, released its slate of films on Wednesday, and they further solidify the event's ties to the nation's capital, with an array of contemporary political and issue-oriented movies.

Kirsten Anderson served as communications director for the Iowa state Senate GOP caucus until Friday, when she was fired just hours after raising concerns about a pattern of sexual harassment in the workplace, she claimed in an interview with Iowa's WHO TV .

Last week, the Obama White House finally was exposed to Americans on both the left and right as the abusive and arrogant administration that it is.

Rick Scott has yet to file for a second term for governor, but he's already drawn a primary opponent -- Elizabeth Cuevas Neunder, founder and CEO of the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commence of Florida, and a longtime Republican activist and candidate from Sarasota.

DGA VIDEO GOES AFTER CUCCINELLI ON WOMEN'S ISSUES: The week Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will be officially nominated as his party's candidate for governor, national Democrats are out with a game show-themed video painting him as "farther to the right" than failed 2012 candidates Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock and Rick Santorum on social issues.

An influential Iowa conservative predicts Sen. Ted Cruz would catapult to the top of the field of potential GOP nominees if he runs for president in 2016.

The liberal group looked at the guests on 13 cable news shows during the month of April.

Donald Trump thinks it's a no-brainer that so many American servicewomen are raped by their fellow soldiers.

Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine : Changes in the way we think about the world are not "news" in the classic sense - they occur gradually, without discrete events to signal them.

Donald Trump thinks it's a no-brainer that so many American servicewomen are raped by their fellow soldiers.

In 1913, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution calling upon all federal officials, from the president on down, to wear a white carnation the following day in observance of Mother's Day.

The man who was the original voice of Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" television specials has been sentenced to a year in jail for stalking a former girlfriend and threatening her plastic surgeon.

U.S. Senator Rand Paul opposes a national law banning same-sex couples and federal penalties for drug offenders.

U.S. Senator Patrick Toomey speaks to reporters outside the Senate Chamber in Washington April 11, 2013.