Jason Pierce

WASHINGTON (BP)--Internet gambling poses new dangers to American families and the economy, lawmakers say, and new legislation aims to prohibit such transactions and punish those who take part in or facilitate the transactions.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Though the Trafficking Victims Protection Act has been law for over a year now, the newly formed State Department office in charge of implementing the act has been nonchalant at best in making progress, say members of the House International Relations Committee.

WASHINGTON (BP)--A Virginia-based population research organization claims that Americans are funding coerced abortions and sterilizations in China without even knowing it, CNSNews.com reported Oct. 18.

WASHINGTON (BP)--Former political rivals Sen. Rick Santorum, R.-Pa., and former Sen. Harris Wofford, D.-Pa., who lost his U.S. Senate seat to Santorum in 1994, teamed up June 19 to announce plans for a coalition to hash out concerns raised by the Bush administration's faith-based and community initiatives proposal.

WASHINGTON (BP)--"Pornography is often considered a victimless crime; however, that is not true," said Wendy Wright, communications director for Concerned Women for America.

WASHINGTON (BP)--West Virginia parents will have an easier time home schooling their children if a bill, which passed overwhelmingly in the state House of Representatives March 5, becomes law, according to a report on CNSNews.com.

WASHINGTON (BP)--In a nation where 71 percent of public school students admit to cheating in class, 93 percent acknowledge lying to their parents and 16 percent say they've shown up to class drunk, there is mounting pressure for the federal government to pay for character education programs.

WASHINGTON (BP)–Most public school students in Virginia had their first experience Sept. 6 with a new law requiring a minute of silence at the beginning of each school day. Officials in several of the state’s school districts reported no major problems, despite the ongoing controversy over the law’s constitutionality. In Virginia’s most heavily populated county […]

WASHINGTON (BP)--A number of major corporations and charitable organizations are pulling their funding from the Boy Scouts of America, criticizing the organization for its ban on homosexuality.