• Judge blocks Trump push to cut public school funding over diversity programs

    Judge blocks Trump push to cut public school funding over diversity programs

    Apr 24, 2025 09:39 PM EDT

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked Trump administration directives that threatened to cut federal funding for public schools with diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the Republican ...

  • Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88

    Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88

    Apr 21, 2025 08:54 AM EDT

    ... the pope had intervened on behalf of prosecutors. While earning praise for trying to turn the Vatican’s finances around, Francis angered U.S. conservatives for his frequent excoriation of the global financial market that favors the rich over the poor. Economic justice was an important themes of his papacy ...

  • Vatican notes 'exchange of opinions' with Vance over migrants and prisoners

    Vatican notes 'exchange of opinions' with Vance over migrants and prisoners

    Apr 19, 2025 05:14 PM EDT

    ... administration’s plans to deport migrants en masse. Francis has made caring for migrants a hallmark of his papacy and his progressive views on social justice issues have often put him at odds with members of the more conservative U.S. Catholic Church. Francis also changed church teaching to say ...

  • World leaders react to former President Jimmy Carter's death

    World leaders react to former President Jimmy Carter's death

    Dec 29, 2024 11:15 PM EDT

    Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is remembering Carter as a man steeped “in devotion to public service and peace.” The California Democrat said in a statement Sunday that Carter was committed to “honoring the spark of divinity within every person,” something she said manifested in “teaching Sunday school in his ...

  • The barriers women still face in the legal profession decades after O'Connor's appointment

    The barriers women still face in the legal profession decades after O'Connor's appointment

    Dec 18, 2023 11:35 PM EDT

    ... successful women partners, because we need the role models for these women who are coming up through the ranks that there is indeed a future for them in this profession. John Yang: Talk about role models, to what extent was Justice O'Connor a role model when she became the ...

  • State Rep. Justin Pearson reinstated to Tennessee House after expulsion

    State Rep. Justin Pearson reinstated to Tennessee House after expulsion

    Apr 13, 2023 05:28 PM EDT

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The second of two Black Democrats who were kicked out of the Republican-led Tennessee House followed his colleague back to work at the Capitol on Thursday, a week after their expulsion for participating in a gun control protest propelled them into the national spotlight. State Rep ...

  • House Republicans pass 'parents' rights' bill in fight over schools

    House Republicans pass 'parents' rights' bill in fight over schools

    Mar 24, 2023 03:50 PM EDT

    ... we’re seeing where the right wing of the Republican Party is really trying to marginalize LGBTQ people,” said David Stacy, the government affairs director for Human Rights Campaign. House Freedom Caucus members unsuccessfully tried to add provisions that called for abolishing Department of Education programs in schools and endorsed ...

  • Suspect in Idaho college student killings will not fight extradition

    Suspect in Idaho college student killings will not fight extradition

    Jan 02, 2023 06:02 PM EDT

    ... fight extradition at a hearing Tuesday in Pennsylvania, where he was captured at his parents' home. Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old doctoral student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, was taken into custody early Friday by state police in eastern ...

  • Suspect in Idaho university killings plans to waive extradition hearing

    Suspect in Idaho university killings plans to waive extradition hearing

    Dec 31, 2022 07:51 PM EDT

    ... can be quickly brought to Idaho to face murder charges, his defense attorney said Saturday. Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, was taken into custody early Friday morning by the Pennsylvania State ...

  • 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

    In 2018, the government passed a set of laws, dubbed the “ghetto package,” which included social policies and criminal justice measures aimed at breaking up immigrant enclaves and assimilating them into mainstream Danish culture. These measures have ranged from increased surveillance to double punishments for crimes committed in certain neighborhoods ...