• How Texas' plan to arrest migrants for illegal entry would work

    How Texas' plan to arrest migrants for illegal entry would work

    Mar 20, 2024 06:27 PM EDT

    ... the border?Arrests for illegal crossings along the southern border fell by half in January from record highs in December. Border Patrol officials attributed the shift to seasonal declines and heightened enforcement by the U.S. and its allies. The federal government has not yet released numbers for February. Texas ...

  • How child migrants are put to work in unsafe and illegal conditions

    How child migrants are put to work in unsafe and illegal conditions

    Jan 01, 2024 11:40 PM EDT

    ... well-known brands. What did those audits reveal about the use of illegal child labor? Hannah Dreier, The New York Times: So, at all of these production facilities, there were children working usually the night shift with fake I.D.s doing jobs that are totally off-limits for minors.

  • COP28 talks shift into high gear when words and definitions matter

    COP28 talks shift into high gear when words and definitions matter

    Dec 07, 2023 02:09 PM EDT

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The mood is about to shift, the hours grow longer and the already high sense of urgency somehow amp up even more as the United Nations climate summit heads into its final week. Every sentence, every word — especially those about the future elimination of planet ...

  • The history and future consequences of the Supreme Court’s conservative shift

    The history and future consequences of the Supreme Court’s conservative shift

    Apr 08, 2023 09:30 PM EDT

    ... Justice Elena Kagan, for example, she of the three remaining could more align herself with a center to broker a deal. So she would often work with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Stephen Breyer, who has since retired to try to bring about a compromise. But she essentially doesn ...

  • Darren Walker proposes shift in focus of giving in new book 'From Generosity to Justice'

    Darren Walker proposes shift in focus of giving in new book 'From Generosity to Justice'

    Mar 22, 2023 10:25 PM EDT

    ... is contributing to our political and civil unrest, and the sense that too many Americans feel left out, rural America, where there is not enough work going on in philanthropy, parts of our country that truly have been left behind, and where the people there feel angry. And they have ...

  • As LGBTQ book challenges rise, some Louisiana librarians are scared to go to work

    As LGBTQ book challenges rise, some Louisiana librarians are scared to go to work

    Feb 27, 2023 06:31 PM EDT

    ... and also that it's being backed by political figures.” Manuel sees the efforts to censor literature as part of a bigger, more dangerous social shift. “This is how it starts: You label someone the bad guy and add a scapegoat for all of your problems,” they said. The St ...

  • New project spotlights work of modern Indigenous American artists

    New project spotlights work of modern Indigenous American artists

    Jan 06, 2023 11:20 PM EDT

    ... and wide, including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Tucson Museum of art, the Whitney in New York. For Hopkins, 45, it represents a shift from when she was first starting out. Candice Hopkins: There were so many good Native artists working in contemporary art, but they still weren ...

  • In Denmark, who should do the work of school integration?

    In Denmark, who should do the work of school integration?

    Dec 27, 2022 09:06 PM EDT

    ... unconstitutional, America’s schools are increasingly separated by race, ethnicity and income. In Denmark, a national education policy change in 2007 hastened HTG’s demographic shift. That year, Denmark switched to a self-governing model for upper secondary schools, which meant school budgets became dependent on the number of students ...

  • European nations shift focus on weathering a potential energy shortage next year

    European nations shift focus on weathering a potential energy shortage next year

    Dec 12, 2022 08:54 PM EDT

    ... EU's framework for investing in clean technology. “We have come quite a long way, but we know that we are not done with our work until families and businesses in the European Union have access to energy that is affordable, that is secure, and that is clean," she said ...

  • In historic shift, Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia's first leftist president

    In historic shift, Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia's first leftist president

    Aug 07, 2022 09:33 PM EDT

    ... S.-led antinarcotics policies, such as the forced eradication of illegal coca crops, as a “big failure.” But he has said he would like to work with Washington “as equals,” building schemes to combat climate change or bring infrastructure to rural areas where many farmers say coca leaves are the ...