The nation’s largest gay advocacy group launched a faith-based campaign in Mississippi this week.

DENVER—Republican Congressman Cory Gardner became the first challenger to unseat an incumbent U.S. senator from Colorado since 1978 on Tuesday, defeating Sen. Mark Udall.  

“Tonight we shook up the Senate,” said a smiling Gardner as he took the stage at the Colorado GOP election night party in Denver on Tuesday night. He told the ecstatic crowd that Republicans in Colorado had gotten used to waiting until the next election. “Well I’ve got news for you. That next election—it finally happened.”

Teen dating violence is on the rise, according to a nationwide study published last week. Experts say the latest numbers reveal a startling culture of relational abuse, especially emotional abuse, with much of it happening online. 

Catholic bishops changed course on their softening tone on gays and divorcees Saturday in a final report released by the Synod on the Family, a two-week gathering of Catholic leaders called by Pope Francis to discuss matters of marriage and family.

A new mobile app designed to reduce nonconsensual sex among college students lasted nine days on iTunes before Apple removed it last week for “objectionable content.”

The app, called Good2Go, was created to provide a mobile platform for students to initiate and gain consent before casual sex. Its developers claimed it would reduce sexual abuse and assault on campus.

But some critics argue that sex with someone you barely know, the kind of sex this app encourages, is a root cause of sexual assault on today’s college campuses.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo.—In Colorado, with its mix of Wild West libertarians, family-value conservatives, urban-hipster liberals, and mountain-dwelling environmentalists, early October polls showed Cory Gardner, an underdog Republican candidate, taking the lead over incumbent Democrat Mark Udall. 

A woman who had a womb transplant last year has given birth to a healthy baby boy, the world’s first following such radical fertility measures, according to an announcement by Swedish doctors last week.

Scientists and fertility experts are lauding the development as a way to give women without a uterus the opportunity to have their own children, but critics are concerned the procedure goes too far in treating infertility.