• Women and minorities shoulder front-line work during pandemic

    Women and minorities shoulder front-line work during pandemic

    May 01, 2020 03:28 PM EST

    The outbreak has made her routine even tougher. She leaves her Baltimore apartment three hours before her shift starts and takes two buses to get to work. In the morning, she gets her 8-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son ready for remote schooling, cooks dinner and gets ...

  • In Louisiana, prisons shift toward rehabilitation

    In Louisiana, prisons shift toward rehabilitation

    Mar 08, 2020 08:46 PM EST

    Joanne Elgart Jennings: There’s also vocational training designed to teach in demand trades and eventually match former prisoners with jobs on the outside. Chris Kendrick: The first thing you do is unplug your tools. Never work with a plugged in power tool. Anybody know what this is? Nobody? A ...

  • Hill dismisses Sondland’s Ukraine work as 'domestic political errand,' not foreign policy

    Hill dismisses Sondland’s Ukraine work as 'domestic political errand,' not foreign policy

    Nov 22, 2019 12:20 AM EST

    ... the president.After five days of hearings, both sides are dug in The hearing Thursday concluded five days of public testimony. The action will now shift to the House Judiciary Committee, which is responsible for drawing up articles of impeachment. In an impassioned closing statement, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff ...

  • How a Trump order could help Social Security and HSAs work together

    How a Trump order could help Social Security and HSAs work together

    Nov 21, 2019 04:10 PM EST

    ... workers also claiming Social Security benefits was modest. Today, however, roughly a third of people in their late 60s are still in the workforce. This shift is attributed to the great recession of 2008, which changed the retirement prospects for millions. The growth of non-physical “knowledge” jobs has also ...

  • Melinda Gates on her foundation's work and the need to 'lift up women' worldwide

    Melinda Gates on her foundation's work and the need to 'lift up women' worldwide

    May 06, 2019 10:25 PM EST

    ... t name President Bush or former President Obama either. So what I look for are the places where I can move issues forward. And I work with people who are like-minded. Luckily, Congress has held up the foreign aid budget because they know it creates a peaceful and prosperous ...

  • Citizenship shift leaves Dominican-Haitians stateless

    Citizenship shift leaves Dominican-Haitians stateless

    Apr 06, 2019 09:34 PM EST

    ... no way to earn a living. In fact, he says many pay bribes to guards to illegally re-enter the Dominican Republic in search of work. Willy Pierre: They do domestic work in the house or in the garden. Many have families here who are counting on them. Ivette Feliciano ...

  • Can new medications shift the battle against drug-resistant TB?

    Can new medications shift the battle against drug-resistant TB?

    Mar 26, 2019 08:53 PM EST

    ... to practice from a point of understanding what it is to be sick,” she said. “Honestly, it makes me a better doctor.” Bekker returned to work as well, reclaiming her place in the surgical theater after a year of painful setbacks. “It was such a privilege,” she beamed as she ...

  • AP fact check: Trump's shift on a concrete border wall

    AP fact check: Trump's shift on a concrete border wall

    Jan 28, 2019 03:12 PM EST

    ... would give up its nuclear weapons and the means to produce more. At the Trump-Kim summit last June in Singapore, the leaders agreed to "work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula." Their joint statement did not define that term or commit the North to any particular action. The ...

  • Shutdown ongoing, State Department sends diplomats back to work with pay

    Shutdown ongoing, State Department sends diplomats back to work with pay

    Jan 17, 2019 07:48 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — The State Department on Thursday instructed all U.S. diplomats in Washington and elsewhere to return to work next week with pay, saying it had found money for their salaries at least temporarily despite the ongoing government shutdown. In a notice to staff posted online and sent to employees ...

  • Health officials work to contain Ebola outbreak in Congo

    Health officials work to contain Ebola outbreak in Congo

    Oct 20, 2018 08:36 PM EST

    ... Congolese and international panel of experts approved the use of the new drugs before they ordinarily would. The W.H.O. Call this a paradigm shift. WILLIAM FISCHER: On one hand, you are incredibly nervous because not many people were given these drugs before and not many people have received ...