Shawn Jasper, the speaker of N.H. House of Representative, warned his colleagues on Wednesday to be civil following a social media spat over a public nudity bill.
South Africa's political party, the ANC, says it will seek to strengthen anti-racism laws in the country after a rasist comment on Facebook sparked public outcry by describing black people as "monkeys".
The advertising agency behind the controversial Stoner Sloth ad broke their silence following a slew of mockery from social media sites at their anti-marijuana campaign.
China may prohibit media reporting on terrorism attacks. The country has passed an anti-terror law that restricts the media from delivering news regarding terror incidents.
U.S. authorities in Pakistan could have sought - but did not - a full background security investigation of San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik before granting her a visa to enter the United States in 2014, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush's attempt to revive a campaign hit in recent weeks by falling opinion poll numbers and drooping fundraising did little to improve sentiment toward him on social media, signaling even more hardship for the struggling candidate.
A video of a white male police officer at a South Carolina high school flipping and slamming a black girl to the ground in a classroom arrest sparked outrage on social media on Monday.
The Minnesota dentist whose killing of Zimbabwean lion Cecil sparked global outcry from animal lovers has maintained that the hunt was legal and says he plans to work on Tuesday, U.S. media reported.
U.S. law enforcement agencies are a long way from being able to effectively track threats of the kind a gunman posted on Instagram before his execution-style murder of two New York City policemen last weekend.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared conflicted on Monday over whether to uphold the conviction of a Pennsylvania man found guilty of making threatening statements to his estranged wife, law enforcement officers and others on social media.
40-year-old Jofi Joseph, a senior White House official who had been part of the National Security Council nuclear non-proliferation team, was fired last week after it was revealed he was the man who posted derogatory comments on a Twitter account under a fake name for more than two years
violence broke at the event Vans U.S Open of Surfing commenced. This event is an amalgam of surfing, BMX biking events and skateboarding in Huntington Beach. The mayhem occurred as a fistfight broke out, leading to chaos involving the destruction of city vehicles, newspaper racks street signs and portable toilets near and on Main Street in the Southern California area of Huntington Beach.
Two seventh-grade girls in New Jersey girls have been suspended from classes, and may face criminal charges for allegedly threatening to kill about a dozen of their classmates in a YouTube video.
Britain's first youth crime commissioner stepped down from her post on Tuesday, less than a week after her appointment was announced. Her inappropriate Twitter postings were seen as the primary reasons for her resignation,
