Category Archives: Social
Author Joy Williams honored by Library of Congress
NEW YORK (AP) — The Library of Congress awarded a lifetime achievement prize to Joy Williams, a fiction writer known for her spare prose and dark and incisive worldview.
Migrant hunger strike puts pressure on Belgian government
BRUSSELS (AP) — A hunger strike by hundreds of migrants living in Belgium without legal permission is putting increasing pressure on a government coalition weighing the wellbeing of those involved against the need to stick to immigration and asylum rul...
As COVID recedes in prisons, will any lessons learned stick?
Derrick Johnson had a makeshift mask. He had the spray bottle of bleach and extra soap that corrections officers provided. But he still spent every day crammed in a unit with 63 other men in a Florida prison, crowding into
As COVID recedes in prisons, will any lessons learned stick?
Derrick Johnson had a makeshift mask. He had the spray bottle of bleach and extra soap that corrections officers provided. But he still spent every day crammed in a unit with 63 other men in a Florida prison, crowding into
Protesters mark Philippine president’s last year in power
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Left-wing activists and relatives of people killed in Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drug campaign marked the start of his last year in office Wednesday with a noisy protest and a “countdown toward achieving just...
Joining Trump at border, GOP congressman eyes path to power
WASHINGTON (AP) — At the invitation of Donald Trump, Indiana Rep. Jim Banks recently led a small group of House Republicans out to the former president’s New Jersey golf club, where they dined on beef tenderloin, posed for photos and
Joining Trump at border, GOP congressman eyes path to power
WASHINGTON (AP) — At the invitation of Donald Trump, Indiana Rep. Jim Banks recently led a small group of House Republicans to the former president’s New Jersey golf club, where they dined on beef tenderloin, posed for photos and briefed
German unemployment drops as COVID infections decline
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's unemployment rate declined to 5.7% in June as Europe's biggest economy benefits from a sharp decline in coronavirus infections, official data showed Wednesday.
Trapped in Ethiopia’s Tigray, people ‘falling like leaves’
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The plea arrived from a remote area that had so far produced only rumors and residents fleeing for their lives. Help us, the letter said, stamped and signed by a local official. At least 125 people
Residential school survivors pushed for decades to demolish building in northern B.C.
Survivors of a residential school in northern British Columbia have given the community strength and courage to keep pushing in a decades-long fight to demolish the building, says the deputy chief of the Daylu Dena Council. "(Today) and every day is
