• House nears reauthorization of U.S. spy program amid GOP pushback

    House nears reauthorization of U.S. spy program amid GOP pushback

    Apr 12, 2024 02:43 PM EDT

    ... querying the intelligence repository for information about Americans or others in the U.S., including about a member of Congress and participants in the racial justice protests of 2020 and the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Those violations have led to demands for the FBI to ...

  • A Brief But Spectacular take on how music empowers communities

    A Brief But Spectacular take on how music empowers communities

    Dec 28, 2023 11:15 PM EDT

    ... On Philly is an organization that provides transformative music training experiences to children in the area of Philadelphia. POP's mission mirrors El Sistema advocacy for social justice. It felt like it was an extension of my work in Venezuela. Over 90 percent of the students identify as a student ...

  • As conservative adults target schools, LGBTQ+ kids and students of color feel less safe

    As conservative adults target schools, LGBTQ+ kids and students of color feel less safe

    Jun 07, 2023 10:24 PM EDT

    ... to pick it up, “because you’re a slave.” She was stunned — no one had ever said anything like that to her before. As protests for racial justice broke out in 2020, white students at her Tennessee high school kneeled in the hallways and chanted, “Black lives matter!” in mocking ...

  • WATCH: Biden gives remarks after EPA proposes greenhouse gas emission rules for power plants

    WATCH: Biden gives remarks after EPA proposes greenhouse gas emission rules for power plants

    May 11, 2023 06:34 PM EDT

    ... executive director the Carbon Capture Coalition, said the proposed rules “elevate the role of carbon capture by naming it as one of the available technologies for reaching emissions standards.'' Even with aggressive growth of renewables over the next decade, fossil fuels, especially natural gas, “will be in the domestic energy ...

  • Workers call for labor rights, economic justice at May Day rallies across the globe

    Workers call for labor rights, economic justice at May Day rallies across the globe

    May 01, 2023 01:34 PM EDT

    Union members marched from Calais in the north to Toulouse in the south, joined by environmental activists and other groups fighting for economic justice, or just expressing anger at Macron and what is seen as his out-of-touch, pro-business leadership. Activists opposed to the 2024 Paris Olympics and ...

  • What does the Comstock Act, a law from the 1870s, have to do with abortion pills?

    What does the Comstock Act, a law from the 1870s, have to do with abortion pills?

    Apr 08, 2023 09:51 PM EDT

    ... next? The Supreme Court has never weighed in on Comstock and — assuming the justices take up the case— the ruling could have far-reaching consequences for American women, abortion providers and their opponents. Kacsmaryk's order is limited to mifepristone, but the same approach could potentially be used for other ...

  • Why Mexico has made little progress on femicide

    Why Mexico has made little progress on femicide

    Dec 27, 2022 05:16 PM EDT

    ECATEPEC, Mexico (AP) — On a November afternoon, Mónica Citlalli Díaz left home in a sprawling suburb of Mexico’s capital and headed to the school where she’d been teaching English for years. It seemed an ordinary day, but on this one, she never arrived at work. Her absence was ...

  • California plan to combat climate change pleases few

    California plan to combat climate change pleases few

    Jun 24, 2022 09:33 PM EDT

    ... is among the most ambitious in the nation and in the world, but few who offered public comment were happy with the state's plan for reaching that milestone. https://youtu.be/hfzXz7q5hTI Environmental groups, academics, and people who live in heavily polluted neighborhoods said the plan doesn't do ...

  • ‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues U.S. military academies

    ‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues U.S. military academies

    Dec 03, 2021 04:07 PM EDT

    “We view white supremacy as like, you know, somebody’s got the cross in the truck and they’re rolling to your crib to go burn it,” said Bibby, who co-founded the Black Veterans Project, which advocates for racial justice in the armed services. But the cuts are ...

  • Sikh Americans push for greater visibility, awareness against years of hate crimes, misunderstanding

    Sikh Americans push for greater visibility, awareness against years of hate crimes, misunderstanding

    Oct 11, 2021 12:56 PM EDT

    ... and discrimination. Because some Sikh Americans are easily identified by their beards and turbans, they have a long history of being targeted by others looking for a scapegoat, reaching as far back as the 1907 riots in Bellingham, Washington, in which a mob of 600 white men attacked and drove ...