The federal government’s exemption for quoting religious texts in its proposed hate speech law has attracted criticism — it ...

The debate over vaccines is in the spotlight in Massachusetts. It centers on two proposed bills that would remove the religious exemption that some parents and guardians turn to so their children ...

The University of Colorado (CU) is now on the hook to pay out $10.3 million in a settlement over discriminating against religious students and staff during its 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate process.

The Second Circuit must come to terms with the conflicts between sound and indeed indisputable public health advice and the ...

Could New York schools again have to accept religious exemptions for student vaccinations? The state limited mandatory school vaccine exemptions back in 2019, after a measles outbreak had sickened 312 ...

Measles cases have spread across the country this year, with the state of New York now facing its worst outbreak in decades. Since last fall, more than 150 measles cases have been recorded in Rockland ...

Anthony Albanese has used the Old Testament of the Bible to justify carving out religious texts in his bill solely focused on stopping hate on the basis of race and ethnicity.

The judge in a vaccine exemptions case that resumes this week asked lawyers to complete some homework about a central question that is also existential: How would you differentiate between religious ...

The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo Courtesy/U.S. General Services Administration) CHARLESTON — The ...

Religious exemptions have risen over decades in Massachusetts. Medical exemptions that bypass immunization have fallen in the state. None of the major religions have mandates against vaccination, ...