Category Archives: Social
Amid growing frustration, White House pushes voting rights
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a call to “save American democracy,” the Biden administration on Thursday unveiled new efforts to help protect voting rights amid growing complaints from civil rights activists and other Democrats that the White House has not d...
Settlement reached over free immigration detention hotline
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigrant advocates say they have reached a settlement with the U.S. government so they can keep operating a free hotline that lets detained immigrants report concerns about custody conditions.
Israeli Supreme Court upholds contentious Jewish state law
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a controversial law that defines the country as the nation state of the Jewish people -- rejecting claims by opponents that it discriminates against minorities.
Pakistan opens state-run school for transgender students
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan opened its first government-run school for transgender students on Thursday in the central city of Multan, a provincial education minister said, promising to set up more such schools in the future.
Human rights complaint alleges First Nation adults with disabilities left behind
WINNIPEG — Three human rights complaints have been filed against the federal government alleging systemic discrimination and a failure to provide proper services to First Nations adults with disabilities in Manitoba. The complaints were brought by the ...
Italian Senate endorses lowering voting age from 25 to 18
ROME (AP) — The Italian Senate on Thursday approved lowering the age voters must reach before they are eligible to elect senators from 25 to 18.
Evers signs GOP-written state budget with $2B tax cut
WHITEFISH BAY, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers signed the Republican-written state budget Thursday, enacting a two-year spending plan that includes a $2 billion income tax cut while making 50 largely minor partial vetoes, saying “unfinished business” still...
Ted Turner to give land to nonprofit but keep paying taxes
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Media mogul and billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner is donating an 80,000-acre ranch he owns in western Nebraska to his own nonprofit agriculture ecosystem research institute and says he might do the same with four other
New Democrats want special prosecutor on residential schools, crimes against children
OTTAWA — For years, Inuit have watched a priest they say abused children for decades recline in comfortable retirement in France. Time for that to end, two New Democrat members of Parliament said Thursday. Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq and Charlie Angus,...
Biden with few options to stabilize Haiti in wake of slaying
MIAMI (AP) — The last time Haiti was thrust into turmoil by assassination was 1915, when an angry group of rebels raided the French Embassy and beat to death President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, ushering in weeks of chaos that triggered
