Category Archives: Social
Democrats face new hurdles in legal fight over redistricting
The fight over redrawing political maps is just ramping up in state legislatures and nonpartisan commissions around the country. But both Republicans and Democrats already are planning for major showdowns in the courts.
Iowa woman sentenced to 25 years in hate attacks on 2 kids
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on federal hate
UN says humanitarian conditions ‘hellish’ in Ethiopia’s war
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations secretary-general said Thursday that humanitarian conditions in Ethiopia are “hellish” as the nine-month Tigray conflict spreads in Africa’s second most populous country.
Erdogan says Turkey is not Europe’s ‘refugee warehouse’
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Faced with a potential new migration wave from Afghanistan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on European nations Thursday to shoulder the responsibility for Afghans fleeing the Taliban and warned that his country won’...
COVID-19: Quebec minister slams anti-vaccine passport protesters wearing yellow star
MONTREAL — Quebec's minister for the fight against racism is denouncing protesters who he said wore yellow stars at a protest earlier this week against the government's vaccine passport system. People protested Tuesday outside a Montreal-area gym where...
How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence
CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail.
Two Indigenous place names restored on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast
SECHELT, B.C. — The British Columbia government says two English place names on the Sunshine Coast are changing to reflect the language and culture of local Indigenous Peoples. The Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation and the Forests Mi...
Record delta wave hits kids, raises fear as US schools open
The day before he was supposed to start fourth grade, Francisco Rosales was admitted to a Dallas hospital with COVID-19, struggling to breathe, with dangerously low oxygen levels and an uncertain outcome.
Officers seize 70 traps in N.S. after First Nation expands self-regulated fishery
SAULNIERVILLE, N.S. — The federal Fisheries Department says its officers have seized 70 lobster traps in an area of southwestern Nova Scotia where fishers from the Sipekne’katik First Nation have been operating a self-regulated fishery. The news comes ...
Booming Colo. town asks, ‘Where will water come from?’
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — "Go West, young man,'' Horace Greeley famously urged. The problem for the northern Colorado town that bears
