Boy Scouts of America rebrands as Scouting America after 114 years, emphasizing inclusivity amid bankruptcy and abuse claims. The name change was announced at a Florida meeting.
Diego Rodriguez almost did not make it to where he is today, but he is now in charge of over 2,000 employees in the FBI's largest field office in New York City. He leads investigations from terrorism to public corruption in the greatest city in the world and eight counties in the state of New York.
The Boy Scouts of America ended its ban on gay adult leaders in a 45-12 vote on Monday. Although the new policy tried to form a compromise between religious sponsors, who supported the gay ban, and LGBT groups and corporate sponsors, who called for an end to gay discrimination, neither side seemed happy with the outcome.
Republican 2016 presidential hopeful Scott Walker, who opened his candidacy speech with an anecdote about his time in Boy Scouts, has been going back and trying to clarify his position on gays being allowed to serve as employees and troop leaders in the organization.
On Friday, new Boy Scouts of America president Robert Gates said he would have allowed openly gay adults to take leadership roles within the organization last year.
Ann Curry, a former co-anchor of NBC's "The Today Show," is thanking a troop of Boy Scouts that rescued her after she fell and broke her ankle during a hiking trip last month.
Despite Garrett Bryant's attempts to hide his sexuality in order to maintain his youth staff position at the Boys Scouts of America, the 19-year-old Arizona college student was fired after a Facebook friend accidentally outed him.
The Walt Disney Company announced Friday that it will halt charity funding toward the Boy Scouts of America in 2015 because of the national organization's membership policy that bans leaders from being openly gay, CNN reported.
