NEW YORK - The Sikh community is protesting an attack on a 12-year-old girl who had her long hair cut off by a fellow student. The June 9 incident at Public School 219 in Flushing is the third ...

The Marine Corps and the Navy are facing lawsuits over prohibitions on service members wearing beards or long hair required by their religion. Navy and Marine Corps regulations require troops to ...

The United States military faces growing backlash after introducing new grooming rules that effectively ban beards and long hair. Sikh groups have condemned the directive, saying it forces Sikhs, ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that members of the Sikh faith can maintain their beards and serve in the Marine Corps, capping a two-year legal battle. The lawsuit was brought by Sikh Marine Corps ...

CHANDIGARH, India -- Text messaging with one hand and holding a cup of milky tea in the other, spiky-haired Amandeep Singh Saini, 27, recalled the year-long battle he waged against his traditional ...

A federal court has ruled that a Sikh college student must be allowed to join his school’s Army ROTC with his long hair, beard and turban intact. In her decision, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S.

California Department of Corrections staff members are now required to shave their facial hair, regardless of any religious or medical reasons they may have for keeping it. It’s a policy change that ...