The Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday it has affirmed its policy of "not granting membership to open or avowed homosexuals."
Thousands of Girl Scouts, former members and supporters swarmed the National Mall on Saturday for the organization's 100-year celebration.
Jennifer Tyrrell on the Boy Scouts of America postponing a decision on her petition to change their anti-gay policy.
The Boy Scouts of America, indicating its ban on openly gay members will remain in effect, said it will consider a resolution asking that local units be allowed to determine their own standards.
A recent Oral Roberts University graduate was the only one of five people en route to a Christian youth conference to survive a plane crash in southeastern Kansas, officials said Saturday.
Jennifer Tyrrell, an Ohio den leader dismissed by her local Boy Scout troop for being a lesbian, said she's disappointed her 7-year-old son is no longer participating in the Scouts.
Jennifer Tyrrell dislikes public speaking so much that when she was in high school, she almost failed marketing because she didn't want to speak in front of the class.
Augusta National won't comment on the issue of allowing female members. Patrick Snell reports.
Divisions between sexes start with pink and blue clothes for babies, move into dance classes and football practice and later into single-sex book clubs and bowling leagues.
Two Girl Scouts sprang into action when a man stole a cash box containing money from their cookie sales in the Houston area.
A group of Girl Scouts is shaken after attempting to fight off a man who robbed their cookie stand.
An Indiana legislator has voiced regret for writing a letter stating the Girl Scouts of America "sexualizes" young girls, even as he stood by his criticisms of what he called a "radicalized organization."
Indiana State Rep. Bob Morris says he doesn't support the Girl Scouts. Affiliates WANE, WTHR and WRTV explain why.
An Indiana lawmaker who opposes celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America says the group "sexualizes" young girls, promotes homosexuality and is a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.
The Girl Scout cookie can't seem to catch a break.
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Psychologist Alduan Tartt talks to CNN's Don Lemon about why a boy should not be encouraged to join the Girl Scouts.
At first, Felisha Archuleta thought her young son's affinity for wearing dresses, primping his hair and playing with Barbies and Bratz dolls indicated he was going through a stage.
All about the Texas governor who'll officially be on the 2012 ballot Saturday
A group of young Yemeni protesters said Saturday they have set up a transitional council to manage the country's affairs, marking the latest attempt to dislodge President Ali Abdullah Saleh from power.
Siblings say therapy to stem their brother's feminine behavior left him feeling "different from everybody else."
The story about Kirk Murphy's suicide began to come to light last year with an anonymous tip: Anti-gay rights activist George Alan Rekers was traveling to Europe with a male escort.
Members of a Boy Scout troop rescued by the Arkansas Army National Guard reunite with loved ones. KATC reports.
A National Guard helicopter made a tight landing Tuesday to rescue Boy Scouts who were missing after a weekend camping and hiking trip in an Arkansas national forest, officials said.
A Boy Scout troop from Lafayette, Louisiana, is missing after camping this weekend in an Arkansas National Forest.
A debate is raging on street corners, television airwaves and social networking websites over a historic referendum in Egypt Saturday -- viewed by many as the country's first democratic initiative after the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak's autocratic regime.
When then-Sen. Barack Obama gave the speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that thrust him into stardom, he made it clear that it was time to shed the red state-blue state nonsense and embrace the concept that "We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
CNN contributors discuss former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee's inaccurate comment about President Obama.
Stunned by the events in Egypt? I'm not. Anyone who has spent any time there in the past few years could see this coming. Egyptian youth have been in a state of paralysis. They can't find jobs, can't afford to get married, and have little hope for real change.
It's that time of year again: Girl Scout cookie season. But some cookie monsters won't be able to get their favorites.
Police early Friday arrested 13 people suspected of trying to rebuild a youth wing of the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA, which was dismantled a year ago with dozens of arrests, the Interior Ministry said.
For an organization that describes itself on its website as being "truly a melting pot," with membership that comes "from all walks of life," the Boy Scouts of America sure is picky.
The father of a 9-year-old Cub Scout said Tuesday he has been forced out of a leadership role with the organization and ordered not to wear its uniform because of his sexual orientation.
A gay father is outraged after being told he can't wear a Boy Scout uniform. HLN's Vinnie Politan reports.
I remember when I was 10 or 11 years old, our Boys and Girls Club director, Billy Thomas, displayed school pennants sent to him by former club members who had gone off to college. I looked up at all those university names and emblems and thought, "If I work hard and graduate from high school, anything is possible."
A federal jury in Philadelphia says the Boy Scouts can stay.
A gay man expelled from the Boy Scouts in 2003 said Monday he misses being a scout but has no regrets.
A federal trial is underway that could settle a dispute between Philadelphia Boy Scouts and the city.
As Boys and Girls Clubs of America ambassador, Lopez's childhood photo is featured in a new campaign
A British woman on death row in Texas, convicted of murdering a young mother, had her latest appeal set aside by the Supreme Court.
Jurors in Portland, Oregon, awarded a former Boy Scout $1.4 million after finding Tuesday that the organization was negligent in allowing a Scout leader who was a sex offender to have contact with him.
Jurors find the Boy Scouts of America negligent in allowing a sex offender Scout leader to have contact with a Scout.
CNN's John Zarrella goes behind the scenes for launch preparation for Space Shuttle Endeavour from Cape Canaveral.
Kathryn Hire: With one woman and five men aboard, the space shuttle Endeavour launched early Monday morning and is heading to the international space station. Endeavour's two-week visit is the first of NASA's five final shuttle missions before the space agency retires its aging space shuttle fleet later this year. It's also the last major construction project on the 11-year-old space station.
A judge has ruled that the famous flute riff in Men at Work's Australian rock anthem "Down Under" plagiarized a popular nursery rhyme about a Kookaburra written in 1932.
The Natural Edges Salon in Dallas, Texas, is a rowdy barbershop where black men gather to loudly talk smack, politics and sports.
"It kept you alive," a tearful Dwight Griffith told his adopted son as the two looked at an infant incubator during a tour of the Russian hospital where he was born.
Alex Griffith raised more than $60,000 to design and build a playground at the Russian hospital where he was born.
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