It's your right as an American to give people the finger, even if the recipient of your flipped bird is a police officer, a federal appeals court in Cincinnati ruled this week.

The “come here” gesture, after all, is how you might call to a pet. As Goss explains, “beckoning someone to ‘come here’ with your index finger implies that you regard that person as an ...

Middle Finger Protected By First Amendment, Court Says A Michigan woman was engaging in constitutionally protected free speech when she made a crude hand gesture, a federal court ruled.

Designating an object with the movement of a finger is at the heart of human communication, yet precisely why we point isn’t clearly understood. A new paper indicates that it may be related to ...