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‘Free our children now’ — On the U.S.-Mexico border, activists protest separation of immigrant families

By Vivekae Kim

As families around the country celebrated Father’s Day, immigration activists in Texas on Sunday held a march and vigil to draw attention to recent separations of immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

‘They didn’t let racism win’ — The story of an interracial couple on opposite sides of WWII

By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green

During World War II, Elinor Powell, an African American nurse, joined the racially segregated army in Jim Crow-era Arizona. The discrimination she faced compounded after she fell in love with Frederick Albert, a German prisoner of war to whom she…

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Erosion of immigrant protections began with Trump inaugural

By Amy Taxin, Associated Press

The Trump administration's move to separate immigrant parents from their children on the U.S.-Mexico border has grabbed attention around the world, drawn scorn from human-rights organizations and overtaken the immigration debate in Congress.

DC’s public schools go from success story to cautionary tale

By Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press

Washington's school system has gone from a point of pride to perhaps the largest public embarrassment of Mayor Muriel Bowser's tenure.

How recycling more steel and aluminum could slash imports without a trade war

By Daniel Cooper, The Conversation

The U.S. could slash imports of these metals not by imposing duties but by boosting the reuse and recycling of old metal products.

1 dead, 20 injured in New Jersey arts festival shooting

By Mike Catalini, Associated Press

An all-night arts and music festival turned deadly Sunday morning when gunfire erupted in a crowd, sending people stampeding and leaving one suspect dead and 20 people injured, authorities said.

Will San Francisco’s ban on flavored tobacco spark a national trend?

By Lesley McClurg, KQED Science

Despite a multimillion dollar campaign by tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds, San Francisco will soon implement the most comprehensive restrictions on e-cigarettes in the country. The move is already sparking other cities to follow.

Puerto Ricans don’t trust official information on Hurricane Maria

By Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, The Conversation

A survey shows that most Puerto Ricans didn't highly rate the official information coming out of the island.

New directive takes aim at immigrants fleeing gang violence

By Elliot Spagat, Anita Snow, Associated Press

A new directive from Attorney General Jeff Sessions declares that gang and domestic violence will generally cease to be grounds for asylum.

‘I feel less safe, living here.’ North Korean defectors react to the Trump-Kim summit

By Molly Enking

North Korean defectors say the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un was a wasted opportunity to address egregious human rights abuses in their home country.