As part of an effort to provide a safe learning environment for students who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning their sexual orientation, a new school for them plans to l...

A new look at unbelievers, the Non-Religious Identification Survey, finds that true atheists, chiefly well educated guys and women who call themselves "spiritual" are just as happy as religious folks. Maybe.Go...

The agonizing message to a young Christian couple in love: Sex can wait, but so can marriage."It's unreasonable to say, 'Don't do anything ... and wait until you have degrees and you're in your 30s to get marri...

Eight-year-old Daniela Earnest has made lemonade out of lemons in more ways than one this week. Hoping to raise money for a family trip to Disneyland, the Tulare girl opened a lemonade stand Monday. But because...

Being lonely isn't bad for you, but staying lonely is, a leading expert and author on loneliness told a session Thursday on the opening day of the American Psychological Association annual meeting here.John Cac...

What happened Thursday, in 140 characters: Twitter went down. Facebook went down. People panicked, unused to not oversharing minutiae of life. Twitter back up. Facebook back up. Phew.Online Networks Down ...

If you're in the hunt for yet another site where you can debate religious perspectives, there's a new entry on line, a potential rival to Beliefnet.com but with a more academic slant. Patheos launched this...

A teenage Iraqi girl who claimed her husband's female relatives strapped explosives on her has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for attempting to blow herself up at a checkpoint in northeaster...

D.C. school officials are planning to offer tests for sexually transmitted diseases to all high school students in the coming school year, expanding a pilot program that uncovered a significant number of infect...

The U.S. Defense Department is reviewing the use of Facebook and other social networking sites on its computers with an eye toward setting rules on how to protect against possible security risks. The Marine Cor...