Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey says President Joe Biden is able to run a strong race and serve a second term in the Oval Office
July 01, 2024
France soccer player Jules Koundé says he is “disappointed to see the direction our country is taking."
July 01, 2024
The Supreme Court is allowing a president to become a “king above the law,” in the use of official power, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a biting dissent that called the majority opinion on immunity for former President Donald Trump “utterly indefensible.”
July 01, 2024
President Joe Biden warns that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecution would make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in November’s election
July 01, 2024
Community rallies together after family loses Rapidan Dam Store, home in same week
July 01, 2024
A family experienced tragedy and hope in the NICU. Now they're helping thousands of others.
July 01, 2024
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig explains why the Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump may claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some of the actions he took in the waning days of his presidency in a decision will likely further delay a trial on the federal election subversion charges pending against him.
July 01, 2024
As President Joe Biden attempts to reassure supporters following his widely panned debate performance on Thursday, Democrats still worried about having him at the top of the ticket in November have few realistic options at their disposal
July 01, 2024
The dissenting judges argued that the Supreme Court’s decision will dramatically expand the president’s powers while in office.
July 01, 2024
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is insisting that President Joe Biden can still win her state, a key battleground in the 2024 election, even as many national Democrats question whether Biden should move forward after his shaky debate performance
July 01, 2024
Supreme Court rules Trump has limited immunity in January 6 case, jeopardizing trial before election
July 01, 2024
The Supreme Court has opened the door to new, broad challenges to regulations long after they take effect, the third blow in a week to federal agencies
July 01, 2024
Voters in five states will decide referendums on abortion rights this year, with potentially more to come
July 01, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit challenging an Oklahoma law prohibiting transgender people from changing their birth certificates to match their gender
July 01, 2024
What is Canada Day and how is it celebrated? The answer is more complicated than some might think
July 01, 2024
The United Kingdom will hold its first national election in almost five years on Thursday, with opinion polls suggesting that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party will be punished for failing to deliver on promises made during 14 years in power
July 01, 2024
In new Alzheimer’s criteria, some see progress while others fear profit-driven ‘diagnostic creep’
July 01, 2024
A landmark settlement for student-athletes is raising questions that will take big-time college sports into uncharted territory, 2 sports management experts say.
July 01, 2024
What happens if the highest court in the land loses legitimacy?
July 01, 2024
For more than three decades, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum has led the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ synagogue through the myriad ups and downs of the modern gay rights movement
July 01, 2024
Supreme Court justices are taking the bench to release their last few opinions of the term, including their most closely watched case: whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from criminal prosecution
July 01, 2024
How to avoid the ‘stupid American’ stereotype while traveling abroad
July 01, 2024
The coming SCOTUS decision on Presidential immunity is "truly unprecedented," says Elie Honig. But "I do not think we're going to see a categorical win or loss either way. And "the million-dollar question" is if the court will rule on whether Trump was acting on January 6 within the scope of his official duties.
July 01, 2024
Supreme Court prepares to issue ruling on Trump immunity and final cases Monday
July 01, 2024
It’s hard to refer to someone as “Hitler” and end up in their good graces, let alone potentially become the person they choose to help lead the country
July 01, 2024
‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, episode 3 recap: It’s a Queen’s world… or is it?
July 01, 2024
Fareed hears from former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum and Financial Times columnist Edward Luce about what's next after Thursday's presidential debate -- and whether president Biden should consider dropping out of the race.
June 30, 2024
Fareed hears from former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum and Financial Times columnist Edward Luce about what's next after Thursday's presidential debate -- and whether president Biden should consider dropping out of the race.
June 30, 2024
Trump looks to carry debate momentum into a critical stretch before GOP convention
June 30, 2024
How the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ‘Chevron’ ruling puts countless regulations in jeopardy
June 30, 2024
Long-serving Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has urged his country to support Ukraine and international cooperation in his final address to his compatriots
June 30, 2024
My daughter came out, and I missed the punchline
June 30, 2024
How does someone with power and fame walk away from it? It’s not easy, as these three examples from politics and sports show.
June 30, 2024
With summer having gotten off to a scorching start, workers across the country may be dreaming of a seaside escape or cutting out early to watch a movie in an air-conditioned theater
June 30, 2024
Throughout Tim Scott's life, people have offered him a hand to help him get ahead
June 30, 2024
The Taliban is saying the West should look past their harsh edicts on Afghan women and girls to improve relations
June 30, 2024
As a legal battle ensues over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of exactly how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain unclear
June 30, 2024
Donors stress over path forward after Biden’s debate performance
June 30, 2024
A sense of deep concern is growing among some Democratic officials that leaders inside Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance
June 30, 2024
‘Biggest worry in captivity was for my parents,’ rescued Israeli hostage Noa Argamani says
June 30, 2024
Jill Biden has been a near-constant presence at her husband's side since his disastrous debate performance against Republican Donald Trump on Thursday night
June 29, 2024
SF couple to renew their vows 20 years after city's first same-sex marriages
June 29, 2024
Couple's Pride flags have been stolen 5 times from their front lawn
June 29, 2024
N.A.A.C.P. demands firing of South Florida officer accused of using racial slurs
June 29, 2024
As the UN comes under fire for giving the Taliban a seat at the table while excluding women, Anna Coren updates us on the dire consequences of the Taliban’s misogyny, as suicide rates among girls surge.
June 29, 2024
As the UN comes under fire for giving the Taliban a seat at the table while excluding women, Anna Coren updates us on the dire consequences of the Taliban’s misogyny, as suicide rates among girls surge.
June 29, 2024
Trump campaign managers in memo outline plans to cut GOP platform
June 29, 2024
The 14th Amendment has been used to dismantle race-based programs. Historians say there are clashing interpretations
June 29, 2024
For many voters in the United States, there's despair in the air after the presidential debate this past week
June 29, 2024
Here’s what voters had to say following the first 2024 debate showdown between Joe Biden and Donald Trump
June 29, 2024
Christians and Jews believe in the Ten Commandments — just not necessarily the version that will hang in every public school and state-funded college classroom in Louisiana
June 29, 2024
In the last 10 days of June, on a frenetic pace of its own making, the Supreme Court has touched a wide swath of American society in decisions on abortion, guns, the environment, health, the opioid crisis, securities fraud and homelessness
June 29, 2024
Oral dissents are back in vogue at the Supreme Court as liberals lament latest rulings
June 29, 2024
A federal judge has approved the Biden administration’s request to partially end a nearly three-decade-old agreement to provide court oversight of how the government cares for migrant children in its custody
June 29, 2024
NYT Editorial Board calls for Biden to leave the 2024 presidential race
June 28, 2024
Guatemala's top court on Friday issued a resolution that called for "good manners" and authorities to protect moral values at this year's annual LGBT pride parade, after a
June 28, 2024
President Joe Biden's debate performance spurred anxiety and silence among some Democrats running in competitive races across the country
June 28, 2024
Foreign diplomats react with horror to Biden’s dismal debate performance
June 28, 2024
Fact check: Sea levels are already rising faster per year than Trump claims they might rise over ‘next 497 years’
June 28, 2024
Human rights advocates on Friday condemned former President Donald Trump's references to Palestinians, and immigrants allegedly taking Black American jobs,
June 28, 2024
During Thursday’s presidential debate, President Joe Biden had plenty of opportunity to lay out a clear vision regarding abortion rights in the face of growing restrictions and worsening medical care for women since the fall of Roe, something his campaign sees as a major motivator for voters
June 28, 2024
Donald Trump's warning during his debate with Joe Biden that immigrants are taking “Black jobs" and “Hispanic jobs” prompted outrage from Democrats and Black leaders who found the language vague and racially discriminatory
June 28, 2024
Supreme Court rulings indicate that the Justice Department overstepped by charging hundreds of January 6 Capitol rioters with obstruction. CNN's Elie Honig reports
June 28, 2024
President Joe Biden addressed concerns over his age while speaking at a rally in North Carolina the day after a shaky debate performance against former President Donald Trump.
June 28, 2024
Civil rights groups warned that Friday's ruling by the U.S.
June 28, 2024
Turning pain into change; grieving mother pleas for boaters to stay sober
June 28, 2024
Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party overtook Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives in an opinion poll for the first time on Thursday ahead of Britain's election on July 4.
June 28, 2024
A federal judge in Louisiana on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden's administration from enforcing in four states a new rule that protects LGBT students from
June 28, 2024
Young voters, what is driving you to the polls? We want to hear about it
June 28, 2024
Thousands of women protested on Saturday against a bill advancing in Brazil's conservative Congress that would equate abortions after 22 weeks of
June 28, 2024
On MSNBC, the mood turns somber following Biden’s debate performance
June 28, 2024
A University of Nebraska regent has proposed a way for football-crazy Cornhusker fans to carry their fandom into the afterlife
June 28, 2024
The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths and rejected pleas from parents that it violates their right to decide on and seek care for their children
June 28, 2024
Homeless people can be ticketed for sleeping outside, Supreme Court rules
June 28, 2024
The Supreme Court will issue the final opinions of its terms on Monday
June 28, 2024
The Supreme Court has upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment, public health, workplace safety and consumer protections
June 28, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsome says a Supreme Court ruling that cities can enforce bans on people sleeping outdoors in West Coast areas will give local officials more freedom to address the crisis
June 28, 2024
An opinion poll published in the newspaper Les Echos on Friday showed that French far-right party National Rally (RN) might win as much as 37% of the popular vote, two days before the
June 28, 2024
Above all, Joe Biden’s allies have wanted him to demonstrate strength and energy on the debate stage this week to help put to rest questions about the 81-year-old Democrat’s physical and mental acuity
June 28, 2024
Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
June 28, 2024
Iranians have voted in a presidential election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi, killed in a helicopter crash in May along with the country's foreign minister and several other officials
June 28, 2024
President Joe Biden responds to former President Donald Trump’s alleged comments calling fallen soldiers ‘losers’ prior to his visit to a military cemetery in 2018.
June 28, 2024
President Joe Biden responds to former President Donald Trump’s alleged comments calling fallen soldiers ‘losers’ prior to his visit to a military cemetery in 2018.
June 28, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is acknowledging that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” during his debate against Donald Trump
June 28, 2024
CNN political commentator Van Jones weighs in on President Joe Biden's performance during CNN's presidential debate.
June 28, 2024
Tensions over the war between Israel and Hamas have seeped into the festivities at LGBTQ+ Pride events across the U.S. They have spurred boycotts and demonstrations and exposed divisions within the movement
June 28, 2024
CNN’s Daniel Dale fact checks the false claims made by former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden during the CNN Presidential Debate.
June 28, 2024
CNN’s Daniel Dale fact checks the false claims made by former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden during the CNN Presidential Debate.
June 28, 2024
The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
June 27, 2024
Two task forces charged with proposing ways to combat anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and antisemitism at Harvard University have delivered their preliminary recommendations to the school’s interim president
June 27, 2024
Oklahoma's top education official is ordering public schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades 5 through 12
June 27, 2024
The first general election debate of the 2024 season has come to a close
June 27, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court did not settle the debate over whether federal law requires hospitals to stabilize pregnant patients with emergency abortions on Wednesday, despite saying Idaho hospitals can provide abortions in medical emergencies even with the state’s restrictions
June 27, 2024
A federal bankruptcy judge has stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting on some of the $50 million they won in a lawsuit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
June 27, 2024
A Dutch beach volleyball player convicted and imprisoned eight years ago for raping an underage girl in Britain has qualified for the Paris Olympics
June 27, 2024
A dozen social and racial justice groups said Thursday that the federal law requiring TikTok’s parent company to sell the platform, or face a ban, would disrupt a vehicle that many minority communities use to form connections online and advocate for causes
June 27, 2024
Antisemitism has surged as a hot-button issue in France's high-stakes legislative election campaign
June 27, 2024
Another 400,000 people formally have left the Catholic Church in Germany last year
June 27, 2024
The pope has again used a highly disparaging word against gay people for which he had already apologised last month, ANSA news agency said on Tuesday.
June 27, 2024
Racism and intolerance are rising in France, fuelled by the war in Gaza and far-right ideas in public debate, France’s human rights commission, the CNCDH, said in an annual report
June 27, 2024
Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull
June 27, 2024
As the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on a major case involving former President Donald Trump, 7 in 10 Americans think its justices are more likely to shape the law to fit their own ideology, rather than serving as neutral arbiters of government authority
June 27, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to release an opinion that will allow doctors in Idaho to perform abortions to stabilize patients at least for now, despite the state's strict abortion ban
June 26, 2024
James Lawson, a prominent civil rights leader whose advocacy of nonviolent protest influenced Martin Luther King Jr. and helped shape the 1960s movement to outlaw
June 26, 2024
The Supreme Court has sided with the Biden administration in a dispute with Republican-led states over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security
June 26, 2024
Most efforts to project how well a candidate will do in an election are based largely on factors over which presidents have little to no control.
June 26, 2024
A study shows that Americans believe news organizations report the news inaccurately not because they are politically biased, but because they want to generate larger audiences and larger profits.
June 26, 2024
Voter support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida slid by three points to 21%, the lowest since he took office in 2021, a poll by public broadcaster NHK showed on Monday,
June 26, 2024
Perhaps the most famous one-liner in a presidential debate, Ronald Reagan's "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
June 26, 2024
Pope Francis spoke out on Wednesday against the legalisation of drugs and denounced drug traffickers as "assassins", while also calling for help and support for addicts.
June 26, 2024
A new poll finds most U.S. adults plan to watch or listen to some element of Thursday's presidential debate
June 26, 2024
It’s a conundrum: While vaping can help some adults stop cigarette smoking, it also appeals to young people who may take up the habit.
June 25, 2024
Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists signed a letter on Tuesday warning that the U.S. and world economy will suffer if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the
June 25, 2024
CNN Political Director David Chalian and CNN ‘One Thing’ podcast host David Rind break down the rules for the CNN Presidential Debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Watch CNN's Presidential Debate on June 27, 2024 at 9pm ET.
June 25, 2024
Whether you’re a reporter, a teacher or a nurse, it’s becoming more difficult to find meaning in your work.
June 25, 2024
Catholics gathered for three days of traditional devotions in the small Ohio city of Steubenville as part of the two-month National Eucharistic Pilgrimage
June 25, 2024
‘On the roadsides there were shot up cars where people had been killed’: Facing war, death and destruction ahead of Olympics
June 25, 2024
Olympic champion Athing Mu’s hopes for a repeat title came crashing down during the first lap of the 800-meter final at U.S. track trials
June 25, 2024
The stakes are high for Joe Biden and Donald Trump for Thursday's first presidential debate
June 25, 2024
After months of casting President Joe Biden as a senile shell of a man incapable of putting two sentences together, Donald Trump has changed his tune
June 24, 2024
Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s new law mandating that the Ten Commandments must be displayed in every public school classroom
June 24, 2024
On the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Vice President Kamala Harris is telling voters Donald Trump is “guilty” of rolling back women’s freedoms and setting off a nationwide health care crisis
June 24, 2024
On the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Vice President Kamala Harris is telling voters Donald Trump is “guilty” of rolling back women’s freedoms and setting off a nationwide health care crisis
June 24, 2024
Patricia Kobylski remembers when there were plenty of people in her eastside Detroit neighborhood
June 24, 2024
Critics are decrying the long time the Supreme Court has taken to rule in a crucial Trump case, charging that it’s politically motivated to help Trump. A scholar of the court says they’re wrong.
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court is planning to weigh in on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality television star convicted of downloading child sexual abuse images
June 24, 2024
The secret recordings of two Supreme Court justices reveal dramatic differences in how they see American political life.
June 24, 2024
A sociologist and former high school math teacher found that Philadelphia students face starkly different expectations for college depending on what type of school they attend.
June 24, 2024
The Biden administration is announcing new steps to increase access to affordable housing
June 24, 2024
An outside group is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the conservative policies promised by Republican Donald Trump
June 24, 2024
Columbia University says it is putting three administrators on leave while it investigates allegations that they exchanged unprofessional text messages while attending a panel about antisemitism on campus
June 23, 2024
The heads of major Christian denominations in Israel say that local governments across the country are demanding they pay property tax, violating a longstanding arrangement in a manner they say reflects growing intolerance for Christians in the Holy Land
June 23, 2024
Can Keir Starmer give Britain the change it desperately wants?
June 23, 2024
Abortion-rights supporters in several states have used the citizen initiative process to protect access in the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to the procedure
June 23, 2024
Illinois is poised to right a 175-year-old wrong by returning land in northern Illinois guaranteed to a Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation chief in 1829
June 23, 2024
A 22-year-old woman who's become a vocal reproductive rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child will campaign with first lady Jill Biden in Pennsylvania this weekend
June 22, 2024
The president of the Teamsters Union is set to speak at this summer’s Republican National Convention
June 21, 2024
The Supreme Court has ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband into the country, in part, because of the way his tattoos were interpreted
June 21, 2024
Trump ally Steve Bannon has asked the Supreme Court to delay his prison sentence while he fights his convictions for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol attack
June 21, 2024
The U.K. general election is nearly two weeks away
June 21, 2024
The Pentagon says Ukraine’s military is allowed to use longer-range missiles provided by the U.S. to strike targets inside Russia across more than just the front lines near Kharkiv if Kyiv is acting in self-defense
June 21, 2024
Utah voters will decide whether Sen. Mitt Romney’s brand of politics can still succeed in Republican primaries
June 21, 2024
A traffic engineer argues that, contrary to his profession’s view, ‘human error’ is not the main cause of deaths in car crashes in the US.
June 21, 2024
A high court in Namibia declared two colonial-era laws that criminalised same-sex acts between men unconstitutional on Friday, in a landmark win for the LGBTQ
June 21, 2024
The horrors of World War Two are being forgotten, thereby raising the risk of a new global conflict, Pope Francis said on Wednesday in comments marking the 80th anniversary of
June 21, 2024
Just months into office, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has gained national attention for his push for groundbreaking conservative policies
June 21, 2024
Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the debate over abortion access is playing out in elections and the courts
June 21, 2024
Attorneys for migrant children who arrived to the United States on their own say the Biden administration’s new rules are not enough to ensure their safety while they are in U.S. custody and should not replace a decades-old agreement that requires court oversight
June 21, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a podcast released on Thursday said that students graduating from U.S. colleges should get a green
June 20, 2024
Retired LSU baseball coach Skip Bertman is impressed by Tennessee's bid to break the 1997 Tigers' NCAA record of 188 home runs in a season
June 20, 2024
An ongoing fight between residents and animal rights activists over whether to cull pigeons in a small German town has led to an uproar
June 20, 2024
American foreign aid to Israel has long relied on the support of American Jews. But American Jews have never been unified in their support for Israel or about Israel’s role in American Jewish life.
June 20, 2024
Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F.
June 20, 2024
Marriages in which a partner undergoes a gender transition can not only survive, but also thrive under the light of new honesty
June 20, 2024
The Equal Justice Initiative nonprofit invoked the Juneteenth holiday as it dedicated a monument that honors the people who endured and survived slavery
June 19, 2024
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom
June 19, 2024
Darren Sands, now a reporter for The Associated Press, was researching his family history three years ago when he found a riveting missing piece
June 19, 2024
Districts across the country have struggled to improve access and diversity in advanced math classes for years. A new approach offers hope.
June 19, 2024
A scholar of nonprofits explains why she’s concerned that the decision in the Fearless Fund case could discourage all efforts focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
June 19, 2024
Abortion rights have found an unlikely champion in swing state Pennsylvania
June 19, 2024
The Vatican's point man on migration and social justice on Monday urged EU citizens who might be tempted to vote for far-right parties in this week's European Parliament
June 19, 2024
Britain's Conservatives will clearly define sex as biological in the Equality Act if they win an election on July 4 to end an "ambiguity" that is putting women and girls' safety at
June 19, 2024
British opposition leader Keir Starmer pledged on Monday to secure the country's armed forces and nuclear deterrent, trying to reassure voters before an election
June 19, 2024
Not even a WNBA basketball game is an escape from the arguments and polarization that are so common in American life these days
June 19, 2024
Biden’s executive action will shield approximately 500,000 undocumented spouses of US citizens, as well as 50,000 children, from deportation and give them the legal right to stay in the US.
June 18, 2024
Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue
June 18, 2024
The U.S. government has acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and operation of dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest have caused Native American tribes
June 18, 2024
Many Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free
June 18, 2024
President Joe Biden is hemorrhaging support among voters without college degrees - a large group that includes Black people, Hispanic women,
June 18, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance is projected to win a majority in the general election that concluded on Saturday, an exit poll summary
June 18, 2024
How the Supreme Court could decide Trump’s blockbuster fight for immunity
June 18, 2024
Artificial intelligence could be misused to spread misleading or false claims about the Holocaust
June 18, 2024
Majorities of Americans favor forgiving all or some of an individual’s medical debt if the person is facing hardships
June 18, 2024
In a move reminiscent of her political mentor, incoming Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has displayed a series of surveys commissioned by her political party that she says show a wide majority approve of controversial judicial changes
June 18, 2024
A trio of extraordinary stories are increasing the pressure on The Washington Post's new leadership, along with highlighting the differences in journalism practices in England and the United States
June 17, 2024
An anti-abortion group in South Dakota has filed a lawsuit to block an abortion rights measure from the November ballot
June 17, 2024
Rudy Giuliani should be stripped of his law license for his work on a failed lawsuit challenging former President Donald Trump's 2020 U.S. election loss in Pennsylvania, a
June 17, 2024
The University of Michigan and the City University of New York didn't adequately investigate complaints about antisemitic or anti-Palestinian harassment linked to campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and other incidents
June 17, 2024
The 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned 50 years of abortion rights is affecting where young people choose to go to college, to work and to live, as well as the way they vote.
June 17, 2024
Had James Crumbley taken 10 seconds to secure a cable lock, the lives of four teenagers may have been spared.
June 17, 2024
Lawyers, advocacy groups and think tanks are soliciting historians’ expertise on the history underlying certain Supreme Court cases. Yet this history-for-hire approach raises questions.
June 17, 2024
At what age should kids be on social media
June 17, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris' husband will deliver remarks at the groundbreaking of the memorial to victims of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
June 17, 2024
A Missouri judge has rejected the argument that lawmakers intended to “impose their religious beliefs on everyone” in the state when they passed a restrictive abortion ban
June 15, 2024
Italian anti-fascist activist Ilaria Salis has returned to her parents’ house in the northern Italian city of Monza
June 15, 2024
On Father’s Day, Kansas residents Jen and Whitney Wilson will pack up their three young children and head to the home of a childhood friend for a picnic to celebrate the man who helped make their family possible
June 15, 2024
The Supreme Court has decided to uphold federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, for now
June 14, 2024
A top U.S. bishop says government officials would be infringing on religious freedom if they were to restrict the Catholic Church’s work serving migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border
June 14, 2024
The gun accessory the Supreme Court just ruled on allows a rifle to fire dozens of bullets within seconds
June 14, 2024
Public tragedies are heartrending events that gain widespread public attention. But where once prominent tragedies often brought Americans together, such tragedies no longer unify the country.
June 14, 2024
A report published by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in detail the dispossession of Indigenous homelands in Colorado, quantifies the value of the land and resources taken and outlines the state education system’s omission of that history in its curriculum
June 14, 2024
Pope Francis has challenged leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies to keep human dignity foremost in developing and using artificial intelligence
June 14, 2024
Alex Jones has pushed many theories over the last three decades, including that the U.S. government was behind or failed to stop the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 attacks
June 14, 2024
The opinion did not take on the substance of the plaintiffs’ claims against mifepristone, and the abortion pill is already facing other challenges.
June 13, 2024
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she is considering a ban on face masks in the New York City subway system, following what she described as concerns over people shielding their identities while committing antisemitic acts
June 13, 2024
The U.S. Justice Department says Phoenix police had a pattern of violating people's rights, from unjustified deadly force to discrimination against minorities and homeless populations
June 13, 2024
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin says his committee has uncovered at least three additional luxury trips given to Justice Clarence Thomas by donors as part of the panel’s ethics investigation into the Supreme Court
June 13, 2024
U.S. Catholic Bishops convening for a two-day meeting approved a new, multifaceted program of outreach to Native American Catholics
June 13, 2024
The Supreme Court unanimously upheld access to a drug used in the majority of U.S. abortions, though abortion opponents say the ruling won’t be the last word in the fight over mifepristone
June 13, 2024
Author-activist Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Nonfiction with “Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World.”
June 13, 2024
Secret recordings raise questions about Justice Alito’s impartiality, but they also reveal the weak state of legal protections against the misuse of the microphones and cameras everyone carries.
June 13, 2024
The more ambivalent a person is about a political issue, the more likely they are to support violence and other extreme actions relating to that issue.
June 13, 2024
Anti-camping laws are the centerpiece of the ‘hostile design’ strategies cities use to push the unhoused out of public spaces.
June 13, 2024
There’s lots of talk of change in Britain’s election campaign, but little talk about climate change
June 13, 2024
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would make it a right nationwide for women to access in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments
June 13, 2024
The head of the U.N. refugee agency says he understands that the Biden administration enacted new restrictions on asylum-seekers entering the United States, but cautioned that some aspects of the executive order may violate refugee protection required under international law
June 13, 2024
Actor Robert De Niro called Donald Trump a "clown" who is bent on destroying American democracy on Tuesday outside the New York City
June 12, 2024
Typically, if your political opponent is convicted of a felony, it's considered a rare gift.
June 12, 2024
Southern Baptists have expressed alarm over the way in vitro fertilization is routinely being practiced at their annual meeting in Indianapolis
June 12, 2024
Louisiana's highest court is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits
June 12, 2024
Several immigrant advocacy groups are suing the Biden administration over President Joe Biden's directive last week to stop asylum processing at the southern border
June 12, 2024
The two oldest candidates ever to run for U.S. president meet on Thursday for a televised debate unlike any other.
June 12, 2024
About half of U.S. adults approve of Donald Trump’s recent felony conviction, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
June 12, 2024
It’s now clear that tensions in academia regarding concerns about Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian people aren’t limited to campus protests.
June 12, 2024
These endeavors end up turning the complexity of Black life into a stunt.
June 12, 2024
A historian of gender and women’s rights explains how women’s protests focused on their rights evolved from the 1960s through the present.
June 12, 2024
Independents’ political views and policy preferences reflect the economic and social conditions they see and experience every day. Democrats and Republicans have different sources for their views.
June 12, 2024
Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting have narrowly rejected a proposal to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination’s constitution
June 12, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and France's President Emmanuel Macron warned in a joint opinion piece for the Financial Times that the European Union had to make dramatic efforts to
June 12, 2024
Italy said on Monday Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians in Gaza were no longer justifiable in one of the strongest criticisms Rome has made so far against Israel's campaign.
June 12, 2024
A federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults
June 11, 2024
A new poll finds that people around the globe have greater confidence in President Joe Biden to do the right thing compared to his challenger in this year's U.S. elections, former President Donald Trump
June 11, 2024
Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting had voted overwhelmingly to boot a Virginia church from its ranks because of its declaration that it believes women can serve in any pastoral ministry
June 11, 2024
Stevante Clark felt a glimmer of hope when racial justice protests swept the globe in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd.
June 11, 2024
José Mujica, a one-time guerrilla, prisoner and later president of Uruguay who has cemented himself as an icon of the Latin American left, maintains that he
June 11, 2024
In the Philippines, where colonial rule under Spain and later the United States endured for nearly four centuries, June 12 is the real Independence Day
June 11, 2024
Gun control advocates and many Democrats see fresh openings created by hard-line positions of the gun lobby
June 11, 2024
A new poll shows relatively few Americans say they’re fans of President Joe Biden’s work on the issue of student loans
June 11, 2024
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media
June 11, 2024
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died
June 10, 2024
Most Black Americans say that they’ve experienced racial discrimination regularly or from time to time and that such experiences inform how they view major U.S. institutions like policing, the political system and the media
June 10, 2024
Decision-making abilities are critical to a president’s performance.
June 10, 2024
Employees of Slovakia’s public radio and television have staged a three-hour walkout to protest a contentious overhaul of their services
June 10, 2024
A liberal judge who previously represented Planned Parenthood in a case related to abortion access has entered the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court
June 10, 2024
DEI programs bolster college students’ sense of identity and belonging. Without these programs, they stand to miss out on crucial learning and career opportunities.
June 10, 2024
Donald Trump has urged a staunchly anti-abortion Christian group to stand up for “innocent life.”
June 10, 2024
Iran’s Guardian Council has approved the country’s hard-line speaker of parliament and five others to run in the country’s June 28 presidential election following a helicopter crash that killed President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others
June 09, 2024
This one surely felt different to the Florida Panthers, for a lot of reasons
June 09, 2024
The Rev. Matthew L
June 08, 2024
Alvin Bragg says he decided to become a lawyer after guns were pulled on him six times while growing up in New York - three of those times by police.
June 07, 2024
The Pop-Tart teaches an entrepreneurial lesson: While first movers may have an advantage, a fast follower often wins the game in the long run.
June 07, 2024
Romantic attraction is driven by a complex set of factors, including who people grow up around and what is familiar and comfortable to them. But discriminatory laws also play a role.
June 07, 2024
Are concerns about Supreme Court justices’ ethics an old problem, a new one, political gamesmanship, or something more serious? Yes to all of it.
June 07, 2024
While possible Republican vice presidential hopeful Doug Burgum travels the country campaigning for former President Donald Trump, the race to succeed him as North Dakota governor tops the list of contests voters will decide in statewide and local primaries
June 07, 2024
Indonesia's parliament is proposing changes to its broadcast law that would ban investigative journalism and LGBT content, sparking criticism from civil society groups and
June 07, 2024
New York's highest court on Tuesday ruled that employers' health insurance plans have to cover medically necessary abortions, rejecting a lawsuit by the Roman Catholic
June 06, 2024
Increased mistrust of the US medical profession and higher mortality rates are two consequences of the lack of Black doctors.
June 06, 2024
The head of the U.S. Secret Service says security plans for the Republican National Convention are still being determined as protesters blasted restrictions they claimed will violate free speech with just weeks until the event
June 06, 2024
The American Civil Liberties Union has prepared a blueprint for using lawsuits, advice to state and local officials and lobbying in Congress to try and thwart the large-scale raids, huge detention camps and mass deportations that former President Donald Trump has promised should he win a second term
June 06, 2024
From culture shock to a lack of family support, slow progress on diversity in police recruitment reflects real challenges in a tough field.
June 06, 2024
The Southern Baptist Convention is preparing to vote on a proposed constitutional ban on churches with women pastors
June 06, 2024
At what age should kids be on social media
June 06, 2024
The United Nations humanitarian chief says leaders in many conflict areas are more interested in power and political rivalries than in listening to the needs of their people, improving their lives and ending the fighting
June 06, 2024
India’s bruised and battered opposition was largely written off in the lead-up to its national election as too weak to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist governing party
June 06, 2024
When President Joe Biden commemorates the 80th anniversary of D-Day in 1944, he might be thinking about some of his uncles
June 05, 2024
Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli dissected the threats authoritarian figures pose to representative government.
June 05, 2024
Drinking alcohol is normalized in American society. But the ubiquity of alcohol consumption hides its serious health risks, including cancer.
June 05, 2024
When faced with infertility, Christians who believe life begins at or around conception must wrestle with weighty questions: How do you build a family in a way that conforms with your beliefs
June 05, 2024
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception
June 05, 2024
Kids constantly hear about the downsides of social media from the adults in their lives, often in the form of dire warnings and commands
June 05, 2024
The family of Rick Cobb II say they were mistreated by government officials and failed by a system that rarely holds law enforcement accountable
June 04, 2024
The two main contenders to be Britain’s next prime minister have sparred over tax, the cost of living and the country’s creaking health system in an inconclusive televised debate
June 04, 2024
Donald Trump’s reaction to his conviction provides a textbook case of demagoguery – which erodes democratic institutions and can prime an audience for violence. His followers went right along.
June 04, 2024
The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, creating uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
June 04, 2024
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won Democratic and Republican primaries in a handful of states Tuesday, among some of the last contests on the 2024 primary calendar
June 04, 2024
Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase
June 04, 2024
President Joe Biden has laid into his likely opponent in November’s election, Donald Trump, for being convicted by a Manhattan jury on 34 felony counts related to hush money payments
June 04, 2024
The opposition Labour Party’s lead over British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservative Party has increased to 18 points, according to an opinion poll published on
June 04, 2024
Senate Democrats are making a renewed push to show their support for ensuring nationwide access to in vitro fertilization
June 03, 2024
Arguments and tensions are inevitable in modern society and should not be brushed under the carpet, Pope Francis said on Saturday, warning that trying to impose a uniform
June 03, 2024
Dr_ Anthony Fauci was back before Congress, calling Republican allegations that he’d tried to cover up COVID-19's origins “simply preposterous.”
June 03, 2024
While anti-abortion rights activists have lobbied politicians to enforce trigger laws in some states, these advocates have not faced opposition in other places.
June 03, 2024
A tradition of nonpartisanship on locally elected school boards is changing, following a national shift toward divisive political partisanship.
June 03, 2024
Framing dissent and poverty as a menace to public order can threaten fundamental rights, particularly when it’s used to justify the deployment of predictive technology.
June 03, 2024
Americans associate with each other more online than off these days. How people interact in digital communities could have a big impact on democracy.
June 03, 2024
It’s hard to look for something you’ve never seen before – and that might not even exist. But you have to start somewhere.
June 03, 2024
Prior encounters with police didn’t negatively affect student views of campus police, but perceptions varied among students from different ethnic and racial groups and LGBTQ+ students.
June 03, 2024
The world’s largest election could also be one of its most consequential
June 03, 2024
Americans are divided on whether women should have to see a doctor in person before receiving abortion pills, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found,
June 03, 2024
Donald Trump and other Republicans say President Joe Biden’s policy to promote electric vehicles is unfair for consumers and amounts to government overreach
June 02, 2024
Throughout the seven-month Israel-Hamas war, Israel has been heavily criticized for alleged wrongdoing by its forces
June 02, 2024
Donald Trump attacked the U.S. criminal justice system after his historic guilty verdict
June 02, 2024
Republicans in Congress are embracing Donald Trump’s strategy of blaming the U.S. justice system after his historic guilty verdict
June 01, 2024
A former government prosecutor examines the choice to prosecute a polarizing former president.
June 01, 2024
A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that Oregon defendants must be released from jail after seven days if they don't have an appointed defense attorney
June 01, 2024
Pope Francis said his conservative critics within the Roman Catholic Church in the United States are trapped in a "suicidal attitude," according to an interview with CBS.
May 31, 2024
CNN and MSNBC both cut away from former President Donald Trump's live remarks Friday about halfway through to offer fact checks, and never returned
May 31, 2024
President Joe Biden says Donald Trump was found guilty by a unanimous jury and “it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this is rigged just because they don’t like the verdict.”
May 31, 2024
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week
May 31, 2024
Back in 2016, Donald Trump famously said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any voters because of it
May 31, 2024
Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and current presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has to wait to find out what his sentence will be
May 31, 2024
Olympic champion Katie Ledecky says faith in the anti-doping system is at an “all-time low” in the wake of the way global regulators handled a case involving Chinese swimmers
May 31, 2024
The general election for a race that could determine the Senate majority begins right after Montana voters lock in their nominees in Tuesday’s primaries
May 31, 2024
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation targeting Iranian officials involved in the prosecution and death sentence of a rapper who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of an Iranian woman and criticism of the Islamic Republic
May 31, 2024
By focusing on the facts, the public can avoid being distracted by baseless allegations about the Trump verdict that undermine institutions designed to ensure – not weaponize – justice.
May 31, 2024
Democrats in the nation’s capital will get their chance to weigh in on the race for the White House as the presidential primary calendar enters its final days
May 31, 2024
New Mexico voters will be among the last to cast ballots for presidential nominees when the state holds its presidential and state primaries
May 31, 2024
Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris' Fine Gael drew level with Sinn Fein in an opinion poll for the first time in almost three years on Thursday, a further potential setback to the
May 31, 2024
Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war
May 31, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing criticism for his proposal to eliminate an optional Medicaid benefit for some disabled immigrants
May 31, 2024
Both sweeping immunity and overzealous prosecutions of former leaders can undermine democracy. But such prosecutions pose different risks for older democracies like the US than in younger ones.
May 30, 2024
How much “customer interaction uncertainty” does your business deal with? The answer should guide your thinking about AI.
May 30, 2024
Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides
May 30, 2024
Andy Negra Jr_ proudly lays claim to being among the last of what is known as “The Greatest Generation.”
May 30, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to a sea of white-capped graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation
May 30, 2024
For years, less than 2% of philanthropic giving in the U.S. has gone to benefit women and girls, but that could change in part thanks to new resources that Melinda French Gates has pledged in recent weeks
May 29, 2024
A nurse was fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel’s war in Gaza as “genocide” during a speech accepting an award
May 29, 2024
Former Mexico City Mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum held a comfortable, albeit slightly narrower lead over her closest rival ahead of the nation's elections
May 29, 2024
UK political leaders have just a few short weeks − and limited campaign funds − to woo voters.
May 29, 2024
Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.
May 29, 2024
President Joe Biden is renewing his election-year pitch to Black voters
May 29, 2024
The top-ranking Republican on a Senate committee that oversees the military is calling for a “generational investment” in America’s defense
May 29, 2024
About 7 in 10 AAPI adults approve of K-12 public schools teaching about the history of slavery, racism and segregation
May 29, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly accused critics of Israel or his policies of antisemitism
May 29, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on voters on Monday to trust him to keep them safe in an increasingly dangerous world, listing his achievements in an unashamedly political
May 28, 2024
Pope Francis’ apology for using a vulgar term to refer to gay men was the latest comment to make headlines about the Catholic Church’s teachings on homosexuality
May 28, 2024
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux lamented on Monday an increased focus in recent years on political and social issues in the movie industry, which he said came at the
May 28, 2024
South African opposition parties are making a final appeal to voters as the country faces the possibility of a landmark change in its young democracy
May 28, 2024
New Age beliefs, alternative wellness practices and political conspiracies all fall under the umbrella of stigmatized knowledge, which can be attractive to anyone, no matter their political leanings.
May 28, 2024
Erin’s Law requires the teaching of child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention classes from kindergarten through eighth grade. How it got adopted by 34 states is the story of one woman’s crusade.
May 28, 2024
Tunisia's public prosecutor extended on Monday the detention of two journalists, while lawyers began a one-day strike to protest against the arrest of a prominent critic of the
May 28, 2024
President Joe Biden is making a Memorial Day pledge that his country will continue the work of the nation’s fallen toward a more perfect union, “for which they lived, and for which they died.”
May 27, 2024
The federal government recently reclassified race and ethnicity groups in an effort to better capture the diversity of the United States, but some groups feel the changes are still missing the mark
May 27, 2024
Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin called on his alma mater Harvard University on Saturday to embrace "Western values", saying that the turmoil across college campuses was the product of
May 27, 2024
South Africans will vote Wednesday to decide whether their country takes its most significant political step since it brought down apartheid and achieved democracy 30 years ago
May 27, 2024
Generations of American families have grown up not knowing exactly what happened to their loved ones who died while serving their country in World War II and other conflicts
May 27, 2024
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker has no regrets about expressing his beliefs in a recent commencement speech and he said he has received support as well as “a shocking level of hate” from others
May 25, 2024
Pope Francis criticised the weapons and contraceptive industries on Friday, accusing them of destroying or preventing life in his speech at a conference on the
May 25, 2024
Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat Masha, has died
May 24, 2024
Closing arguments tell the jury why the evidence is believable or not, how the facts are linked or not and, most importantly, why their decision to either acquit or convict is moral and just.
May 24, 2024
Political discussions on campus can be a lot more productive if the right expectations are set.
May 24, 2024
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are looking to settle political scores within their own party in the upcoming primary runoff elections, in which voters will decide nearly three dozen unresolved races from the state’s March 5 primary
May 24, 2024
Hall of Famer Chris Evert tells the AP she thinks Iga Swiatek could surpass her record of seven French Open titles
May 24, 2024
President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election year rules on the environment as he tries to secure his legacy
May 24, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize Christian nationalism and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen
May 23, 2024
A leading Black Lives Matter activist in Los Angeles has lost her lawsuit against the city’s police department over its handling of hoax calls that brought a large law enforcement response to her home
May 23, 2024
Britain is on the cusp of a new era. Here’s what you need to know about its upcoming general election
May 23, 2024
Many Americans are unprepared for what can be an emotional, costly and guilt-inducing process of finding long-term care for a loved one
May 23, 2024
Israelis’ and Jewish people’s long-held feeling of persecution, dating back to biblical times, contributes to most Israelis’ desire to continue the war in Gaza.
May 23, 2024
Everyone wants to raise kind children, but telling kids to be nice gets you only so far − young people need to practice those skills with their peers.
May 23, 2024
The next time you hear about a Supreme Court concurrence or dissent, pay attention. You may get a window to where the law is headed in the future.
May 23, 2024
A scholar of militia activity observes extremists stepping back into the public sphere after a few years of being less visible.
May 23, 2024
The founders saw a need for government to intervene in markets.
May 23, 2024
As the world’s eyes turn to France, host of the Olympics in two months, one of the country’s fundamental principles is under the spotlight — laïcité, or secularism
May 23, 2024
Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom for his hush money trial, but he knows his favorite television analysts
May 23, 2024
Brazilian opinion polls released this week show a mixed scenario for the approval ratings of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's administration, with two surveys indicating a
May 22, 2024
Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F.
May 22, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday denounced calls to weaken the role of the European Union as self-destructive and irresponsible, speaking ahead of EU parliamentary
May 22, 2024
Texas’ health department has appointed an outspoken anti-abortion OB-GYN to a state committee that reviews pregnancy-related deaths
May 22, 2024
South Africa's election on May 29 could bring momentous change, with polls suggesting the ruling African National Congress is likely to lose its majority after 30 years in
May 22, 2024
The Supreme Court's decision regarding Idaho's abortion ban may hinge on whether federal spending power can protect doctors against a state's criminal code
May 22, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has pointed to standard language used in an unsealed FBI document to baselessly claim the Biden administration wanted to kill him during a search for documents at his Florida estate in 2022
May 22, 2024
Patrick Mahomes said Wednesday that while he doesn’t agree with all the beliefs espoused by kicker Harrison Butker during a recent commencement address, the Chiefs quarterback respects his teammate’s right to make them be known
May 22, 2024
Let the debate begin
May 22, 2024
In most cases, it’s reasonable to expect that groups of protesters will abide by the law. But there are times when doing so diminishes the effectiveness of the protests.
May 22, 2024
In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that's mired Black people in “dependency” and poverty
May 22, 2024
FIFA has been urged by international lawyers to uphold its own policy and scrutinize Saudi Arabia’s human rights record before picking the kingdom to host the men’s 2034 World Cup
May 22, 2024
As she runs to replace outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum is struggling to construct her own image, leaving many wondering whether she can escape the shadow of the larger-than-life incumbent
May 22, 2024
Sen. Cory Booker says prisoners should be learning professional skills that help prepare them for their release instead of being forced to work
May 22, 2024
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a committed same-sex relationship
May 21, 2024
What if the traditional wisdom on how to fix Social Security no longer holds?
May 21, 2024
Victor Wembanyama’s latest accolade was like none other
May 21, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is seemingly open to supporting regulations on contraception and has said his campaign would release a policy on the issue soon, though he later walked that statement back
May 21, 2024
The issue of abortion will be before voters in at least four states this year, and possibly more
May 21, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said D-Day ‘was not a game changer’ in World War II – and Soviet media delivered that message starting the day after the invasion.
May 21, 2024
Deifying the composer and his work only serves to reinforce America’s white patriarchy at the expense of countless others who were no less great.
May 21, 2024
A London judge says Prince Harry can't expand his privacy lawsuit against The Sun tabloid's publisher to include allegations that Rupert Murdoch and some other executives were part of an effort to conceal and destroy evidence of unlawful information gathering
May 21, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he does not oppose Islam or Muslims and wants the community to think about their future growth as they vote in an
May 21, 2024
Can Russians and Belarusians compete at the Paris Olympics? Individual Neutral Athletes explained
May 21, 2024
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign called “The Apprentice,” a film about the former U.S. president in the 1980s, “pure fiction” and vowed legal action following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival
May 21, 2024
President Joe Biden and Donald Trump agree on essentially nothing, from taxes and climate change to immigration and regulation
May 20, 2024
Abortion access advocates in Nevada say they have submitted almost twice the number of petition signatures needed to qualify a measure for the November ballot that would enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution
May 20, 2024
The Turkish president has criticized the Eurovision Song Contest, accusing the annual event of allegedly encouraging “gender neutralization” and threatening the traditional family
May 20, 2024
The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons
May 20, 2024
After the celebrations come the questions
May 20, 2024
A Russian court has started the trial of a theater director and a playwright facing charges of justifying terrorism over a play they staged, the latest step in the unrelenting crackdown on dissent in Russia that has reached unprecedented levels during Moscow's war in Ukraine
May 20, 2024
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's allies and opponents alike are awaiting her decision on whether to endorse Donald Trump
May 20, 2024
Numbers show that the economy during Donald Trump’s presidency has never lived up to his own hype
May 20, 2024
Colleges and universities have long been protected places for free expression without pressure or punishment
May 19, 2024
Many Democrats campaigning for the Senate this year say they support suspending the filibuster rule to pass nationwide abortion protections
May 19, 2024
President Joe Biden has offered his most direct recognition of the anguish American college students are feeling over the Israel-Hamas war
May 19, 2024
When are 706 people named Kyle in the same place not enough
May 18, 2024
Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola’s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic “Megalopolis,” one that particularly resonates with the director is: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we’re free.”
May 18, 2024
Donald Trump’s support from white evangelicals and other conservative Christians is as strong as ever
May 18, 2024
Donald Trump’s support from white evangelicals and other conservative Christians is as strong as ever
May 18, 2024
States have for decades been using foster children's federal Social Security benefits to help cover the costs of state services
May 18, 2024
Perspective was even harder to come by than birdies through all the raindrops, bourbon and cigar smoke that streamed across golf’s biggest stage during one of the sport’s most bizarre mornings ever
May 17, 2024
For Brits, ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ evokes nostalgia for a vanished, golden age. But Americans experience it as a stirring sendoff into a hopeful future.
May 17, 2024
Would Lisa Simpson set up a tent at New York University to protest the war in Gaza
May 17, 2024
Biden has spoken to Black leaders at the National Museum of African American History and Culture about the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that desegregated schools
May 17, 2024
A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of “doctor of litter-ature” on a cat named Max who has become a beloved member of its community
May 17, 2024
The two planned presidential debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that were swiftly organized this week are good news for CNN and ABC News
May 17, 2024
The early timing of Biden’s move, changing supply chains and national security fears suggest the tariffs might work this time, at least for a while.
May 17, 2024
The Indian prime minister made reference to communities that have “too many children” in a veiled reference to Muslims.
May 17, 2024
Playing and watching sports can unite people − and provide lessons for democracy.
May 17, 2024
The Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley had always loved the Black Church, and developed an ambition in his youth to become a pastor even as he realized he was gay
May 17, 2024
Voters in California’s 20th Congressional District can be forgiven if they open their ballots for the upcoming primary election with a sense of déjà vu
May 17, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan waded into the debate over U.S. college campus protests on Thursday, saying authorities were displaying "cruelty" in clamping down on pro-
May 17, 2024
Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v
May 17, 2024
An Indiana judge has cleared the way for the opening of a new restaurant after finding that “tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches."
May 16, 2024
As the nation marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board, one of its most significant side effects − the large-scale loss of Black teachers − continues to affect America’s schools.
May 16, 2024
- A majority of Americans believe that China uses TikTok to shape U.S. public opinion, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted as
May 16, 2024
Biden is arguably the most pro-union occupant of the White House since the New Deal.
May 16, 2024
Students in windowless rooms are reporting anxiety, depression and fatigue. A professor of architecture says developers need to let the light shine in.
May 16, 2024
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili says a controversial media bill passed by parliament that critics call a threat to free speech is “unacceptable."
May 16, 2024
Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s whirlwind agreement to meet for two presidential debates has upended the way the forums have been organized for nearly four decades
May 16, 2024
Donald Trump’s lawyers have sought to portray the star prosecution witness in his hush money trial as a serial fabulist who is bent on seeing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee behind bars
May 16, 2024
Talor Gooch says he sees his invitation to the PGA Championship as proof that sanity may prevail amid the split between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour
May 15, 2024
Before Judith Godrèche kickstarted a #MeToo wave in the French industry, she was one of the first prominent actors to go on the record against Harvey Weinstein
May 15, 2024
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy for his proclamations of conservative politics and Catholicism, but he received a standing ovation at the May 11 commencement ceremony at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas
May 15, 2024
The death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson in Florida this month reignited a complicated debate about race, gun laws and self-defense – namely, who is typically afforded deference when it comes to using guns in self-defense and who is not
May 15, 2024
A philosopher and a psychologist break down the challenges of finding purposeful work that also pays well.
May 15, 2024
NoMowMay is a catchy concept, but it doesn’t provide the food that native North American pollinators need or lasting support for them.
May 15, 2024
Very few Americans believe Congress is doing a good job. Some of them have a simple solution: Throw the bums out and institute term limits. But that creates more problems than it solves.
May 15, 2024
The Black hosts of the ‘Fresh & Fit’ podcast speak in the parlance of social justice movements, but apply it, in a twisted way, to justify misogyny.
May 15, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fending off criticism that he is not planning for a postwar reality in the Gaza Strip, saying it's impossible to prepare for any scenario in the embattled Palestinian enclave until Hamas is defeated
May 15, 2024
The political power of Muslims is declining in the world's largest democracy
May 15, 2024
Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional
May 15, 2024
Voters in several states have chosen nominees in critical races that could decide the balance of power on Capitol Hill next year
May 15, 2024
The Rev. William “Bill” Lawson, a longtime pastor and civil rights leader who helped desegregate Houston, Texas, and worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, has died
May 14, 2024
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is getting attention for comments he made during a commencement address at Benedictine College last weekend in which he congratulated the women receiving degrees, but then said most were probably more excited to get married and have children
May 14, 2024
Federal agencies are warning that foreign terrorist organizations or their supporters might target LGBTQ-related events and venues as part of the upcoming June Pride Month
May 14, 2024
A coalition that includes entrepreneur and philanthropist Daniel Lubetzky, actor Liev Schreiber, journalist Katie Couric, and director of the Muhammad Ali Center Lonnie Ali announced Tuesday that it would launch Builders, a nonprofit global initiative aimed at reducing polarization while encouraging people to work together to find solutions they can all support
May 14, 2024
The time has come to raise a red solo cup
May 14, 2024
Most Americans surveyed did not know how pregnancies are dated or how long a trimester is – but this is especially true among some groups, like people who say they support six-week abortion bans.
May 14, 2024
Mexico's main opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez called her rival, frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum, "the candidate of lies"
May 14, 2024
A transcript of discussions between Judge Juan M
May 14, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has used a profanity while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break down barriers
May 13, 2024
Dr. Cyril Wecht has died at age 93 after spending much of his life pressing his view that more than one shooter was involved in President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination
May 13, 2024
A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s last residence in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a global figure.
May 13, 2024
It can be easy to mistake feelings like fear and anger as hate. When biases are acted out in harmful ways, however, speaking up can help stop hate from getting worse.
May 13, 2024
The daily struggle to find work for Chinese immigrants living illegally in a borough of New York is a far cry from the picture Donald Trump and other Republicans have sought to paint
May 13, 2024
Small pro-Palestinian protests are popping up sporadically as colleges and universities hold commencement services
May 11, 2024
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh says U_S_ history shows court decisions unpopular in their time later can become part of the “fabric of American constitutional law.”
May 10, 2024
A judge must decide whether Virginia law allows frozen embryos to be considered property that can be divided up and given a monetary value
May 09, 2024
A former judge and an expert on political communication dissect the most recent week of Donald Trump’s hush-money trial.
May 09, 2024
A divided Supreme Court has ruled that authorities do not have to provide a quick hearing when they seize cars and other property used in drug crimes, even when the property belongs to so-called innocent owners
May 09, 2024
Younger generations today agree more on key national issues than older generations do. A time of intense polarization may be ending.
May 09, 2024
A research group that's trying to lay the groundwork for a second Trump administration if the former president wins in November is out with a new policy book that aims to articulate an “America First” national security agenda
May 09, 2024
Eliminating poverty has not been a major campaign issue during the 2024 presidential campaign.
May 09, 2024
Low birth rates aren’t just a potential economic crisis. They can tell a deeply personal story about women failing to reach their goals for motherhood.
May 09, 2024
These books shine light on a rich history of campus protests in the US that goes back to the 1960s.
May 09, 2024
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money case has denied a second request from defense attorneys to declare a mistrial over Stormy Daniels' testimony
May 09, 2024
Reuters/Ipsos conducts polls of national U.S. public opinion on a variety of political, business and social topics including a monthly reading on the approval of the president
May 09, 2024
Voting rights advocates have created a new initiative to increase Black voter turnout ahead of this fall's general election
May 08, 2024
Distress about the Earth’s future is driving many young people to act
May 08, 2024
The implications of restrictive laws or near-total bans go well beyond abortions, reducing overall access to prenatal care, birthing services, routine reproductive health care and more.
May 08, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has made some inroads with voters of color by appealing to law and order, conservative social values and mistrust of government.
May 08, 2024
When it comes to the Supreme Court, progressives are now in the position where conservatives found themselves for many years. They’re on the outside looking in.
May 08, 2024
The use of drone strikes raises a host of ethical issues. US military chaplains − the armed forces’ moral conscience − have questions.
May 08, 2024
The decision by Boy Scouts of America to rebrand after 114 years and become Scouting America marks another major shakeup for an organization that once proudly resisted change
May 08, 2024
Grief, anger, humor, defiance and fear are some of the emotions Ukrainians are grappling with as they face a third year of war
May 08, 2024
Leaders of three large public school systems strongly denied allegations that they let antisemitism run rampant
May 08, 2024
Historically, federal courts prioritized voting rights and legal congressional districts for upcoming elections above all other concerns. But the Supreme Court changed that in 2022.
May 07, 2024
More than 3 million children in the US are homeschooled. Are they getting a good education?
May 07, 2024
Colm Tóibín’s “Long Island,” the Irish novelist’s follow-up to the acclaimed immigrant tale “Brooklyn,” is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club pick
May 07, 2024
Witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial is moving forward again and all eyes are on who will be called next
May 07, 2024
President Joe Biden has condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world.”
May 07, 2024
Millions of Indians across 93 constituencies are voting as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarizing rhetoric against Muslims
May 07, 2024
Bernie Sanders will be Joe Biden's most powerful emissary to progressives and to younger voters this election year
May 07, 2024
There was plenty of sound and fury this year in the U.S.
May 07, 2024
Donald Trump's ability to testify in the writer E.
May 07, 2024
Missouri's Republican attorney general on Thursday sued a Planned Parenthood affiliate, accusing it of helping minors travel to Kansas to get abortions without notifying
May 07, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden condemned on Friday what he called an ugly resurgence of Islamophobia since the Oct. 7 start of the Israel-Gaza war.
May 07, 2024
The abortion opponents who are seeking to convince the U.S.
May 07, 2024
Democratic state Rep. Delisha Boyd is fighting an uphill battle in her attempt to pass a bill that would exempt cases of rape and incest from Louisiana's near-total abortion ban
May 06, 2024
In a number of stories and novels, lost limbs represent both physical and metaphorical loss.
May 06, 2024
Minnesota lawmakers have launched their debate on far-reaching legislation that would amend the state's constitution to protect abortion and LGBTQ rights
May 06, 2024
Brittney Griner says since her release from a Russian prison 17 months ago that she has used her platform as a WNBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist to advocate for the return of other Americans detained overseas
May 06, 2024
Donald Trump told Republican donors at his Florida resort this weekend that President Joe Biden is running what Trump says is a “Gestapo administration.”
May 05, 2024
The fight to allow same-sex marriage and gay clergy has defined much of the last half-century for major mainline Protestant denominations in the U.S. Within these theologically moderate-to-progressive Protestant groups, the decades of wrestling over whether to reaffirm or overturn longstanding anti-LGBTQ+ church policies sowed deep divisions
May 05, 2024
When the United Methodist Church removed anti-gay language from its official rules last week, it marked the end of a half-century of debates over LGBTQ inclusion in America's mainline Protestant denominations
May 05, 2024
King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch connect with the people of Britain and strengthened the monarchy in the year since his dazzling coronation at Westminster Abbey
May 05, 2024
Japan and India have decried remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden describing them as “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants while he was speaking during a campaign fundraising event earlier in the week
May 04, 2024
Analysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.
May 04, 2024
A makeshift national network of abortion doulas, navigators at clinics and individual volunteers are helping people who live in restrictive states and need or want an abortion
May 04, 2024
A makeshift national network of abortion doulas, navigators at clinics and individual volunteers are helping people who live in restrictive states and need or want an abortion
May 04, 2024
Republican officials who believe in the legitimacy of elections have formed a group that's pushing back on the election lies and conspiracy theories that have persuaded a large share of their party that elections can't be trusted
May 04, 2024
It hasn't happened in almost anyone's lifetime: two presidents squaring off in one election
May 04, 2024
United Methodist delegates have repealed their church’s longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy
May 03, 2024
Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970
May 03, 2024
Some Jewish students have taken part in strident pro-Palestinian protests dominating U.S. colleges in recent weeks, but few have led rallies in support of Israel or against perceived displays of antisemitism
May 03, 2024
The consequences of cyber conflict are primarily felt by civilians, who call for retaliation, fueling cycles of violence.
May 03, 2024
Du Bois’ study, published in 1899, detailed the social conditions of poor Black residents of the Seventh Ward. The area is now home to some of Philadelphia’s ritziest neighborhoods.
May 03, 2024
One-third of Americans think that “rule by a strong leader or the military would be a good way of governing their country.” Are they losing faith in democracy?
May 03, 2024
People who enter the US as refugees or with asylum generally adapt quickly and become productive members of society. But cities need help getting them settled and employed.
May 03, 2024
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers and actor Michelle Yeoh are among a diverse group of 19 people who have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden
May 03, 2024
Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in
May 03, 2024
Georgia has been engulfed by huge protests triggered by a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union
May 03, 2024
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says her state won't comply with a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation's schools
May 02, 2024
With the expanded College Football Playoff locked in through 2031, questions still remain about what the rest of the postseason will look like
May 02, 2024
For the past 52 years, the United Methodist Church had officially declared “the practice of homosexuality
May 02, 2024
Although it might be tempting to compare the U.S. campus protests to the anti-Vietnam War movement of a half century ago, experts say that would be an overreaction at this point
May 02, 2024
Jill Biden has honored her fellow educators by hosting the 2024 national and state teachers of the year at a swanky White House dinner to recognize their commitment to their students and to excellence in the classroom
May 02, 2024
Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age
May 02, 2024
President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain the four countries’ economic circumstances and contrasted them with the U.S. on immigration
May 02, 2024
The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against the Israel-Hamas war has now topped 2,000
May 02, 2024
An expert on the Columbia University protests of 1968 draws parallels between protests then and the ones taking place there in 2024.
May 02, 2024
President Joe Biden has met privately with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job in Charlotte, North Carolina
May 02, 2024
Student journalists at campuses across the country are getting a pressure-filled, and dangerous, lesson in their chosen profession during a chaotic springtime of protests
May 02, 2024
President Joe Biden is rejecting calls from student protesters to change his approach to the war in Gaza while insisting that “order must prevail” on college campuses across the country
May 02, 2024
A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists who argued that the U.S. government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights
May 02, 2024
Mat Ishbia knows the offseason chatter around the Phoenix Suns is it’s a team with a top-heavy roster, salary cap issues and precious little room to maneuver after a disappointing season
May 01, 2024
A Pennsylvania man says his emotional support alligator named Wally has gone missing amid the coastal marshes of Georgia
May 01, 2024
Since its debut at the Sundance Film Festive, Jane Schoenbrun's “I Saw the TV Glow" has been hailed as an acutely intense psychodrama of self discovery
May 01, 2024
The House has passed legislation that would establish a broader definition of antisemitism for the Department of Education to enforce anti-discrimination laws
May 01, 2024
Do social media users have the right to control what they see — or don’t see — on their feeds
May 01, 2024
Utah educators have been rushing to prepare students and staff as the state starts cracking down on any public school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for transgender individuals
May 01, 2024
In Mexico, more states are legalizing abortion at the same time US states like Florida are imposing more restrictions.
May 01, 2024
Pundits decried the Supreme Court justices for not focusing on Donald Trump’s conduct when they heard oral arguments in Trump’s immunity case. But a legal scholar says they were just doing their job.
May 01, 2024
United Methodist delegates have repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate
May 01, 2024
Research has shown that anti-gun violence programs have more success when they address root causes such as generational poverty, easy access to guns and a lack of affordable housing.
May 01, 2024
Hate crime legislation is often touted as a progressive tool to end violence and champion inclusion. Its origins tell a more complicated story.
May 01, 2024
Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.
May 01, 2024
Americans have a message for news organizations as they prepare to cover the 2024 election: About half of Americans say they're concerned that outlets will report inaccuracies or misinformation
May 01, 2024
Georgia’s Parliament has moved a step closer to passing a law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country’s European Union membership bid
May 01, 2024
The Biden administration’s move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous but still controlled drug was hailed as a monumental step in reshaping national policy
May 01, 2024
A federal judge has ruled that some of North Carolina government’s restrictions on dispensing abortion pills are unlawful
April 30, 2024
Kansas is requiring abortion providers to share patient information with the state and increasing funds to anti-abortion centers, while bills to loosen a restrictive ban in Louisiana face an uphill battle
April 30, 2024
Former President Donald Trump says it should be left up to the states whether they want to prosecute women for getting abortions or whether to monitor their pregnancies
April 30, 2024
United Methodist delegates have begun making historic policy changes on sexuality, voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ policies
April 30, 2024
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that a former Milwaukee police officer was properly fired for posting racist memes related to the arrest of an NBA player
April 30, 2024
It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually reads.
April 30, 2024
What happens in November 2024 could influence other states weighing their own options.
April 30, 2024
Actor Ashley Judd, whose allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein helped spark the #MeToo movement, is speaking out on the right of women and girls to control their own bodies and be free from male violence
April 30, 2024
United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of a legislative gathering that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting their church’s longstanding bans on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy
April 29, 2024
Protests are roiling college campuses across the U.S. as upcoming graduation ceremonies are threatened by disruptive demonstrators, with students and others sparring over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and its mounting death toll
April 29, 2024
Students protested what they saw as injustice and demanded change
April 29, 2024
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described domestic violence as a national crisis after thousands rallied around the country against violence toward women
April 28, 2024
Brian Jack sought to make a debate among Republicans for an open Georgia congressional seat all about his close ties with Donald Trump, while the other contenders are ignoring Trump’s endorsement of Jack
April 28, 2024
President Joe Biden is out to win some votes by scoring some laughs at the expense of Donald Trump
April 28, 2024
Employees increasingly find that robust workplace volunteer programs meet their desires for in-person connections, professional growth and altruistically inclined employers — career objectives that might be missing in conventional corporate atmospheres
April 28, 2024
These are the states where abortion rights will be on the ballot in November
April 28, 2024
Student anti-war protesters at U.S. college campuses are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while some universities have moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters
April 28, 2024
The coincidence of presidential elections in the U.S. and Mexico every 12 years provides a valuable way to compare the two countries
April 27, 2024
For many in the graduating class of 2024, the unrest at campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war has marked an emotional end to their college experiences that started amid a pandemic
April 27, 2024
Alex Padilla is taking practically every opportunity to put his stamp on the Democratic Party’s approach to immigration
April 27, 2024
A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it or even children’s social transitioning
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden says he is willing to debate Donald Trump later this fall
April 26, 2024
Journalists see themselves as truth-tellers, and sometimes as contrarians
April 26, 2024
Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war are digging in at Columbia University for a 10th day, part of a number of demonstrations roiling campuses from California to Connecticut
April 26, 2024
Both scholars stressed they are working very hard to be ‘vigorously neutral’ about Trump himself, while noting that the trial is drawing attention to a broader subject: his approach to the media.
April 26, 2024
An editorial in a Chinese state-controlled newspaper on Thursday admonished "two-faced" Japan for inaccurately portraying it as a regional security threat while chasing more stable
April 26, 2024
The University of Southern California canceled a graduation speech by its valedictorian, a Muslim student, saying it could spark violence or disruption due to the "intensity of feelings"
April 26, 2024
The Arizona Supreme Court's decision reviving a near-total abortion ban dating back to the 19th century is at odds with a pledge from the state's Democratic governor and
April 26, 2024
Venezuela presidential hopeful Manuel Rosales said on Wednesday he is willing to hand over his place on the ballot to a unity candidate, amid uncertainty over who
April 26, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he was leaning toward a 15-week national ban on abortion but supports exceptions for rape, incest and saving
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump said on Saturday if he does not win November's presidential election it will mean the likely end of American democracy.
April 26, 2024
Florida and LGBTQ advocates on Monday settled a lawsuit over a state law on classroom instruction that grants teachers freedom to discuss sexual orientation and gender
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden on Thursday attacked former President Donald Trump's vision for America in his last State of the Union address before the two men face off in the
April 26, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief on Monday called on the United States to protect the right to vote and ensure that this year's presidential election is "non-discriminatory". The U.N.
April 26, 2024
Senior leaders at multiple global media outlets signed a letter urging Israeli authorities to protect journalists in Gaza, saying reporters have been working
April 26, 2024
Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he supports the availability of in vitro fertilization treatment following an Alabama Supreme Court decision regarding IVF.
April 26, 2024
Congress needs to restore reproductive healthcare protections following the Alabama Supreme Court decision regarding in vitro fertilization, White House spokesperson Karine Jean
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said a controversial Alabama court ruling over frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization was "outrageous and unacceptable."
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump's stark comments on NATO show that Europeans should take more responsibility for their security, but they will still need the transatlantic military
April 26, 2024
Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley slammed Donald Trump on Friday for maintaining an amiable relationship with Vladimir Putin, after the Russian
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the bipartisan immigration bill is falling apart under political pressure from Republican rival Donald Trump and urged
April 26, 2024
John Bolton excoriated former President Donald Trump as an utterly self-interested man who would punish personal enemies and appease
April 26, 2024
About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said
April 26, 2024
Harvard University's president was planning to submit three corrections to her 1997 dissertation after a committee investigating plagiarism allegations against her
April 26, 2024
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has never read Adolf Hitler's manifesto 'Mein Kampf' and is not quoting the German dictator when he says illegal immigrants inside the U.S. are
April 26, 2024
The head of Israel's main Holocaust memorial centre has welcomed criticism levelled at three top U.S. university presidents over their comments on campus antisemitism but said an
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump has a huge and expanded lead over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in a new poll in Iowa, the state that kicks off the party's nominating
April 26, 2024
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy "the most obnoxious blowhard in America." Ramaswamy said former U.S.
April 26, 2024
A Texas woman on Tuesday asked a court to allow her to obtain an abortion despite the state's near-total ban on the procedure, saying her fetus was likely not viable and
April 26, 2024
Here are reactions to the death of Henry Kissinger, a controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner who left an indelible mark on U.S. foreign policy: WINSTON LORD, FORMER U.S.
April 26, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned on Wednesday against blaming Jewish Americans for the actions of Israel's government, as antisemitism swelled in the
April 26, 2024
The U.S. must change how it measures the well-being of its people - including gauging how much of a voice they feel they have in political outcomes - as part of a larger
April 26, 2024
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying defamation verdicts stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school
April 26, 2024
Over 700 people from the entertainment industry, including actors Gal Gadot, Michael Douglas and Jerry Seinfeld, signed an open letter in support of Israel in its conflict with
April 26, 2024
Conservative Catholics have launched a barrage of challenges before a big Vatican meeting, with five cardinals demanding clarifications on same-sex couples
April 26, 2024
U.S. presidential hopeful Robert F.
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump on Thursday claimed a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was “nothing” compared to the college campus protests that have sparked around the country over the Israel-Hamas war
April 25, 2024
The case argued before the Supreme Court has profound implications for Donald Trump − but also for the country.
April 25, 2024
Kim Kardashian has joined Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable highlighting the administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform
April 25, 2024
There was talk of drone strikes and presidential bribes, of a potential ruling “for the ages” and of the Founding Fathers, too
April 25, 2024
Reggie Bush says the return of his Heisman Trophy is the biggest step yet in his fight against the NCAA to restore his reputation and his records from his incredible career at Southern California
April 25, 2024
Special anti-terrorism measures being put in place to safeguard the unprecedented opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on the River Seine will also apply to all buildings along the route
April 25, 2024
United Methodist delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment seen by advocates as a way of defusing debates over the role of LGBTQ people in the church
April 25, 2024
There are better ways to keep employees on board, such as boosting pay and providing better benefits.
April 25, 2024
TikTok is hardly a model social media platform, but it’s also far from an outlier when it comes to threats to Americans.
April 25, 2024
Scotland’s leader is facing a potential battle for survival after ending a three-year power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party following a clash over climate change policies
April 25, 2024
Italy is marking its liberation from Nazi occupation and fascist rule amid a fresh media controversy over the legacy of Italian fascist complicity in the Holocaust and World War II-era crimes
April 25, 2024
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik's leadership is under fire
April 25, 2024
On the left and right, Supreme Court justices seem to agree on a basic truth about the American system of government: No one is above the law, not even the president
April 25, 2024
Human Rights Watch says military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants
April 25, 2024
The North America’s Building Trades Unions has endorsed President Joe Biden
April 24, 2024
Many Black patients experience stark differences in how they’re treated during medical interactions compared to white patients.
April 24, 2024
Novels that tell complex and surprising stories of migration are among six finalists for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
April 24, 2024
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza
April 24, 2024
An effort to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is gaining momentum in state capitals and college campuses
April 24, 2024
A new exhibit inside the federal agency that’s responsible for enforcing the nation’s gun laws features photos of the faces of more than 100 victims of gun violence
April 23, 2024
A minor league baseball team in Montana is calling out the U.S. Department of Interior for “unwarranted and relentless” trademark claims in a battle over the use of an arrowhead logo
April 23, 2024
Emily Henry knows that love can change your life
April 23, 2024
Unlike recent years when there was an LGBTQ+ ally in the Louisiana governor's office, nothing stands in the way this year of legislation hostile to transgender people
April 23, 2024
Not all teachers comply when asked to adjust student grades. An education scholar takes a look at what happens when they don’t.
April 23, 2024
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government has scored a victory with the Senate approving a law allowing anti-abortion groups access to women considering ending their pregnancies
April 23, 2024
Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, especially his native Havana
April 23, 2024
President Joe Biden is traveling to Florida to assail the state’s forthcoming six-week abortion ban and similar restrictions nationwide
April 23, 2024
At a time when book bans have soared to their highest levels in decades, a countertrend is emerging
April 23, 2024
What I teach Harvard Law School students about the importance of opening arguments and how a majority of jurors make up their minds about a case after hearing them.
April 22, 2024
The medical records of women will be shielded from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal
April 22, 2024
Ending institutional racism is a long-term goal and requires well-informed and engaged people to remake systems and structures
April 22, 2024
Legal rulings throw fate of special scholarships for ethnic minorities into doubt.
April 22, 2024
Lama Rod Owens describes himself as a Black Buddhist Southern Queen
April 21, 2024
Republicans in Wyoming are deciding which presidential candidate will get their state’s votes at the GOP national convention
April 20, 2024
Investments in public preschool have helped many parents through a child care crisis, in which quality options for early learners are often scarce and unaffordable
April 20, 2024
A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition was to stop the harm caused by disproportionate enforcement of drug laws in Black, Latino and other minority communities
April 20, 2024
If the US wants to protect young people from misinformation and foreign influence, focusing on TikTok is barking up the wrong tree.
April 19, 2024
The collective group of Summer Games sports has criticized World Athletics for promising to pay $50,000 for each track and field gold medal won at the Paris Olympics
April 19, 2024
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under new rules from the Biden administration
April 19, 2024
Marijuana advocates are gearing up for April 20
April 19, 2024
Nevada's Supreme Court has handed setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists in two new rulings
April 18, 2024
A rhetoric scholar says Columbia University President Nemat Shafik fared much better than her predecessors at a hearing about how her school was handling antisemitism on campus.
April 18, 2024
AI chatbot makers’ restrictive use policies hinder people’s access to information.
April 18, 2024
The type of life and professional experience a police chief has can influence how their departments react to protests, new research finds.
April 18, 2024
Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the war in Ukraine
April 18, 2024
America stands with Japan until all Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago return home to end their painful separation
April 18, 2024
A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 45% of U.S. adults say they have become more concerned about climate change over the past year
April 18, 2024
Twenty-three Republican attorneys general are attacking the Biden administration's stated goal of pursuing environmental justice
April 17, 2024
Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some felonies
April 17, 2024
A National Public Radio editor who wrote a critical essay saying that his company had become intolerant of all but liberal views has resigned
April 17, 2024
Several U.S. courts have ruled this week on state laws restricting the rights of transgender young people
April 17, 2024
Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
April 17, 2024
Both politicians are exploiting some tried and true rhetorical and psychological tactics.
April 17, 2024
There are many outdated laws that states keep on the books, even if they aren’t used. If the Supreme Court overturns legal precedents on rights like same-sex and interracial marriage, that can change.
April 17, 2024
Sometimes you need to buy a car you’ve never seen
April 17, 2024
The U.N. population fund says in a new study that an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America
April 17, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron says Israel “is making a decision to act” in response to Iran’s missile and drone attack over the weekend
April 17, 2024
National Public Radio has reportedly suspended a veteran editor who wrote an essay for an outside outlet that criticized his employer for what he says is an unquestioned liberal point of view
April 16, 2024
A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Texas inmate Melissa Lucio should be overturned
April 16, 2024
Legal precedents hold that criminalizing someone for their status, such as being homeless, is cruel and unusual punishment. But what if that status leads to actions like sleeping in public spaces?
April 16, 2024
There is no shortage of horror stories about online shaming, but it’s not always a bad thing. It comes down to who is doing the shaming and how cohesive the online community is.
April 16, 2024
Boasting about centering your transformative systems change paradigm means you’re doing it wrong. But fixes are available.
April 16, 2024
Alabama voters have cast their ballots to decide party nominees for the state’s 2nd Congressional District
April 16, 2024
Some Indiana Republicans in key campaigns for office are fighting for access to detailed abortion reports that the health department stopped releasing to protect patient privacy under a near-total ban on the procedure
April 16, 2024
Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that Rushdie retains
April 16, 2024
For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War
April 15, 2024
Cancel culture leads to educational detriments that can harm democracy.
April 15, 2024
An independent experts commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy
April 15, 2024
It seems Americans don't think they're particularly well-rested
April 15, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party
April 15, 2024
The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864, a time when gold-seekers were moving, white settlers were clashing with Native Americans and dueling had to be regulated
April 15, 2024
Alex Garland’s provocative “Civil War” didn’t only ignite the discourse
April 14, 2024
Twelve news organizations have issued a joint statement calling on presumptive presidential nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to debates during the White House campaign
April 14, 2024
The rural city of Grants Pass in southern Oregon has become the unlikely face of the nation’s homelessness crisis as its case over anti-camping laws goes to the U.S. Supreme Court
April 14, 2024
A growing number of progressive candidates are choosing to tell their own abortion stories
April 13, 2024
No woman has appeared more often before the Supreme Court than Lisa Blatt, who'll make her 50th argument this month
April 13, 2024
The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology
April 13, 2024
President Joe Biden looks to nudge further ahead in his party’s nomination for reelection with Democratic voting Saturday in Wyoming and Alaska
April 13, 2024
Jill Biden says former Republican President Donald Trump is a “bully” who is “dangerous” for the LGBTQ community
April 12, 2024
Donald Trump is declaring anew that the Arizona Supreme Court “went too far” with a ruling allowing prosecutors to enforce a near-total abortion ban
April 12, 2024
Thirty years ago, women’s rights advocates working to pass the 1994 Violence Against Women Act found domestic violence was still something of a hushed topic
April 12, 2024
The Army says it will not restart the use of horse-drawn caissons at Arlington National Cemetery for months and maybe longer as it struggles to improve the care of the horses
April 12, 2024
As PEN America begins its annual spring tradition of high-profile events, the organization faces criticisms from numerous writers who are unhappy with its stance on the war in Gaza
April 12, 2024
Since the ‘trial of the century,’ the lines between news and entertainment have become increasingly blurred.
April 12, 2024
Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world
April 12, 2024
Lawmakers in at least 12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death
April 12, 2024
A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that more than half of U.S. adults think Joe Biden’s presidency has hurt the country on cost of living and immigration
April 12, 2024
President Joe Biden is expected to give a live virtual keynote address to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s racial justice conference in New York
April 11, 2024
Tennessee lawmakers are considering criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent
April 11, 2024
Some Muslim and Arab American leaders have grown frustrated with the outreach from President Joe Biden's White House as the war in Gaza drags on
April 11, 2024
Diversity, equity and inclusion are good for the bottom line.
April 11, 2024
Programs and policies to help domestic abuse survivors find safe housing work only if they’re implemented and supported with resources.
April 11, 2024
Poland's parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country's strict abortion law
April 11, 2024
Most news organizations hold its journalists to strict ethical standards to avoid conflicts of interest either real or perceived
April 11, 2024
Frightening to some, exciting to others, baffling to many: Artificial intelligence has been called an economic game changer, a threat to democracy or even an existential threat to humanity
April 11, 2024
A federal appeals court is hearing arguments over Arkansas' first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors
April 11, 2024
A new study has found that voters in 19 countries, including in three of the world’s largest democracies, are widely skeptical about whether their political elections are free and fair
April 11, 2024
A deadly traffic stop where plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 shots in under a minute has raised serious questions about the use of force and role of tactical officers in police departments
April 10, 2024
Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022
April 10, 2024
Sen. Rick Scott of Florida is joining other Republican incumbents scrambling to strike a balance in their abortion rights messaging
April 10, 2024
The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2
April 10, 2024
Voters in a New Hampshire town have passed an ordinance addressing what local officials call “a path forward” for the installation of murals and other public artwork
April 10, 2024
Donald Trump says an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions goes too far and the former president called on Arizona lawmakers to change it
April 10, 2024
An effort to amend the Maine Constitution to enshrine the right to an abortion is coming up short
April 10, 2024
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republicans insisted the ruling would mostly impact those seeking abortions to end unwanted pregnancies
April 10, 2024
A man’s world? Art exhibit about misogyny was only open to women — until a man complained
April 10, 2024
A report from a senior doctor in England says children who question their gender identity are being let down by lack of evidence and a toxic political debate
April 10, 2024
Sports media has typically operated under a ‘one and done’ model: focus on women’s sports during high-profile events, before returning to routine coverage of men.
April 10, 2024
A Florence appeals court on Wednesday opens a new slander trial against Amanda Knox based on a 2016 European Court of Human Rights decision that her rights were violated during a long night of questioning into the murder of her British roommate without a lawyer and official translator
April 10, 2024
Many other past Olympic hosts around the world have decided in recent years that bringing back the Games isn’t worth the money or hassle
April 10, 2024
The Arizona Supreme Court has delivered a landmark decision in giving the go-ahead to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions
April 10, 2024
Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high rates of suicides that disproportionately affect Native American youth
April 09, 2024
The sister of one of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history is accusing state lawmakers of acting “nefariously” by pressing at the 11th hour for a so-called red flag law
April 09, 2024
The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 09, 2024
The new film “Civil War” is an ominous attempt to turn widely held American anxieties into a violent, unsettling big-screen reality
April 09, 2024
An Arizona Supreme Court decision that will end virtually all abortions in the state puts the issue front and center in a battleground state
April 09, 2024
Across the country, book bans and attempted bans have soared to the highest levels in decades
April 09, 2024
The chairman of Japan’s Nippon Foundation says the charity will spend $2 million to help move tens of thousands more Rohingya refugees to a remote island in Bangladesh and provide them with skills training
April 09, 2024
MLB and its history are dotted with men who played out of their natural handedness, a phenomenon that is seen occasionally in other sports but is a regular occurrence on the diamond
April 08, 2024
President Joe Biden is taking another shot at student loan cancellation, hoping to deliver on a key campaign promise that he has so far failed to deliver
April 08, 2024
For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do
April 08, 2024
Donald Trump still says he’s proud that the Supreme Court justices he nominated overturned Roe v. Wade
April 08, 2024
Transgender Catholics are voicing disappointment with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 08, 2024
Laws such as Alabama’s controversial ruling that gives personhood rights to frozen embryos will have ripple effects on how advance directives are interpreted by doctors and the courts.
April 08, 2024
The Vatican has declared that sex change operations and surrogacy are grave threats to human dignity
April 08, 2024
Former President Donald Trump says he will finally announce Monday when in pregnancy he believes abortions should be banned
April 08, 2024
Experts expect a surge of misinformation targeting Spanish-speaking voters with a high-stakes presidential election in the fall as candidates vie for support from the rapidly growing number of Latino voters
April 08, 2024
Manchester United had already ended Liverpool’s quadruple challenge and looked set to deliver a major blow to Jurgen Klopp’s hopes of bowing out at the end of the season with a second Premier League title
April 07, 2024
Former teammates, Braves executives and family members remember Hank Aaron's unwavering strength despite receiving racist hate mail and threats during his pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record
April 07, 2024
As he campaigns for a second term, President Joe Biden is highlighting how women’s health has been affected by the overturning of federal abortion protections
April 07, 2024
The West Virginia United Students’ Union is the leading oppositional force against cuts at the state's flagship university
April 07, 2024
The oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has so far created a mixed legacy that some churchgoers say has made its global membership feel more included but has left LGBTQ+ members feeling unsupported
April 07, 2024
Iowa guard Gabbie Marshall says she received “hate comments” from people upset about her role in a much-discussed foul call late in the Hawkeyes’ Final Four win over UConn
April 06, 2024
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said she believes transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports
April 06, 2024
As the presidential election draws nearer, the spread of bogus information online is getting a huge boost from social media accounts that have been created anonymously
April 06, 2024
UConn's bid to reach the national championship game ended with a disputed call
April 06, 2024
Months after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, state lawmakers held an hourslong hearing to debate a so-called red flag bill that would let family members petition a judge to remove guns from someone experiencing a psychiatric crisis
April 05, 2024
Independent presidential candidate Robert F
April 05, 2024
College athletes have made substantial progress in being able to get paid for the use of their name, image and likeness − except in one realm.
April 05, 2024
Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” continues its troubled run as the country’s most controversial book, topping the American Library Association’s “challenged books” list for a third straight year
April 05, 2024
An international campaign to ban surrogacy has received a strong endorsement from the Vatican
April 05, 2024
The need to connect is fundamental. But diminishing social ties and community support are contributing to the loneliness epidemic.
April 05, 2024
‘Natural’ isn’t the same thing as healthful. You can have too much of a good thing, and taking action can be worse than doing nothing.
April 05, 2024
Donald Trump’s former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called the former president a “threat to democracy” and says he won't vote for him in 2024
April 05, 2024
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's new book “True Gretch” will detail her five-year tenure as governor and her journey along the way
April 05, 2024
Attorneys defending Tennessee’s sweeping abortion ban have alleged that doctors challenging the law do not want any oversight when deciding to terminate a pregnancy and instead are improperly withholding care to women facing serious medical emergencies
April 04, 2024
The No Labels group says it won't field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organization were unable to attract a candidate willing to seize on the widespread dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden and Donald Trump
April 04, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies “could have stopped” the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will to do so.”
April 04, 2024
The big question: Would climate engineering like sending reflective particles into the stratosphere or brightening clouds help reduce the national security risks of climate change or make them worse?
April 04, 2024
More than 600 British jurists are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel
April 04, 2024
More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around the world during a time of rising antisemitism following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip
April 04, 2024
Former President Bill Clinton has a memoir coming out this fall about his years since leaving public office in 2001
April 03, 2024
In the summer of 2022, days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some 500 high school girls gathered in Missouri for a weeklong mock government camp in which they elected their own governor and seated an all-female Supreme Court that would rule on their own bodies
April 03, 2024
Britain’s main opposition parties are demanding that the Conservative government publish legal advice it has received on whether Israel has broken international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza
April 03, 2024
A new poll finds that most Americans share many core values on what it means to be an American despite the country’s deep political polarization
April 03, 2024
The vote in Wisconsin to approve a pair of proposed constitutional amendments that would limit how state elections are run and paid for fell largely along party lines
April 03, 2024
A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention has been ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics
April 02, 2024
Democrats hope that a ballot measure seeking to preserve abortion rights will put Florida back in play as the nation’s largest presidential swing state
April 02, 2024
A federal judge has ruled that New Mexico election officials violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to provide voter rolls to a conservative group and its public online database
April 02, 2024
Wallace Peeples has lived many lives — activist, speechmaker, podcaster, social media influencer — since serving 20 years in prison
April 02, 2024
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have banned high school transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity
April 02, 2024
President Joe Biden is hosting a small group of Muslim American community leaders at the White House for a meeting and a scaled-down Iftar dinner
April 02, 2024
Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M
April 02, 2024
Not all activists are in the media spotlight, but they’re crucial to promoting action to slow climate change.
April 02, 2024
Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes in a book-length interview
April 02, 2024
More than 20 countries across Africa have loosened restrictions on abortion in recent years, but experts say many women probably don’t realize they are entitled to a legal abortion
April 02, 2024
Former President Donald Trump will continue to hammer President Joe Biden over his border policies during a trip to two pivotal midwestern states that could determine the outcome of the 2024 election
April 02, 2024
The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy
April 01, 2024
When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
April 01, 2024
A few Ivy League schools say the tests enable them to find students of promise from low-income families. But not all sociologists agree.
April 01, 2024
In Donald Trump's speeches and online posts, the Republican presidential candidate has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric and his messaging often relies on falsehoods about migration
April 01, 2024
A ruling that weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act is spurring lawmakers in several states to enact state-level protections to plug gaps that the courts opened in the landmark federal law
April 01, 2024
A group of students from a New Orleans high school staged a play they developed on the steps of Louisiana's Capitol to protest a series of anti-LGBTQ+ legislative proposals
March 31, 2024
Generations of working-class Marylanders watched in disbelief this week as an iconic symbol of their maritime culture crumbled into the Patapsco River
March 31, 2024
President Joe Biden is facing criticism from Donald Trump and religious conservatives for proclaiming March 31 — which corresponds with Easter Sunday this year — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
March 30, 2024
A 15-year volunteer effort is helping identify the fates of thousands of Alaskans who were shipped to a controversial psychiatric hospital in Oregon between 1904 and the 1960s
March 30, 2024
Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high
March 30, 2024
Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents’ explicit permission to create social media accounts
March 29, 2024
NBC News' messy hiring and firing of former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel puts a spotlight on television's practice of paying on-air political contributors
March 29, 2024
House Republicans invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress as part of their impeachment inquiry into him and his family’s business affairs
March 28, 2024
Joe Lieberman served as No Labels' chief defender when the critics got the loudest
March 28, 2024
The Oscar-nominated documentary “Food, Inc” helped change the way many consumers think about the systems behind the things we eat
March 28, 2024
A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election
March 27, 2024
The second day of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark's disciplinary system painted a picture of someone who, despite numerous attempts by his superiors to convince him otherwise, remained adamant that there were instances of irregularities and fraud in the 2020 election that required deeper examination
March 27, 2024
A women’s roller derby league in suburban New York City has thrust itself into the national discussion over the rights of transgender athletes
March 27, 2024
When the Supreme Court ended affirmative action, it left the college essay as one of few places where race can play a role in admissions decisions
March 27, 2024
Religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia
March 27, 2024
Days after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed an after-school fight on a school district’s diversity programming, a lawyer for the majority Black district in suburban St. Louis says the state’s chief attorney is showing racial bias
March 26, 2024
A prominent journalist in Belarus has been designated a political prisoner by the country’s leading human rights group
March 26, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit Americans’ access to the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case that could have sweeping implications for how the federal government approves scores of medications
March 26, 2024
Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits
March 26, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is hawking Bibles as he runs to return to the White House
March 26, 2024
As government officials debate how to handle the influx of new arrivals, the Girl Scouts — whose Troop 6000 has served kids who live in the shelter system since 2017 — are quietly welcoming hundreds of the city’s youngest new residents with the support of donations
March 26, 2024
The main Venezuelan opposition coalition has said that electoral authorities didn’t let it register its candidate for the presidential election as the deadline ended, in what it called the latest violation to the citizens’ right to vote for a change in the South American country
March 26, 2024
A high school teacher and two students are suing Arkansas over the state's ban on critical race theory in public schools
March 25, 2024
The Supreme Court is considering a new abortion case affecting women across the U.S. Abortion opponents want the high court in arguments Tuesday to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to a medication called mifepristone, which was used in nearly two-thirds of abortions last year
March 25, 2024
Former ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Chuck Todd says that some NBC News journalists are uncomfortable that the network had hired former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor
March 24, 2024
LSU coach Kim Mulkey is sharply criticizing and threatening legal action against The Washington Post
March 23, 2024
When Opal Lee was 12, a racist mob, angered that a Black family had moved in, drove her family out of their Texas home
March 23, 2024
The bones that embody an album can take many shapes
March 22, 2024
A cluster of Bollywood films based on polarizing issues that promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s Hindu nationalist agenda are coming out
March 22, 2024
California lawmakers are split on how to best address the retail theft cases that have proliferated in the state
March 22, 2024
Pope Francis has defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment
March 21, 2024
Many Jewish faith leaders and commentators are decrying what they say are inflammatory remarks by Donald Trump
March 21, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has thanked Russians for casting ballots in a presidential vote in which he cemented his grip on the country for another six years after the harshest crackdown on dissent since Soviet times
March 21, 2024
A new poll shows that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are highly supportive of legal abortion, even in situations where the pregnant person wants an abortion for any reason
March 21, 2024
Agent Scott Boras defended himself and the leadership of the Major League Baseball Players Association against a faction pushing for a change in the union’s lead negotiator
March 20, 2024
A federal judge has suggested Michael Cohen has committed perjury under oath, giving fresh support to former President Donald Trump's claims that his onetime personal lawyer and star witness at his upcoming criminal trial in New York is an untrustworthy liar
March 20, 2024
Voters around the world who worry about growing threats to democratic freedoms should consider electing more women in countries’ national elections this year
March 20, 2024
March Madness might look very different if not for the Supreme Court.
March 20, 2024
Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning in Sunday's election, but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decadeslong campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation
March 20, 2024
Republican attorneys general in two dozen states are pushing back against a proposed Biden administration rule that seeks to expand diversity in apprenticeship programs
March 20, 2024
Election misinformation will pose a formidable challenge this year as billions of people in dozens of countries head to the polls
March 20, 2024
Donald Trump is suggesting that he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy, voicing for the first time support for a specific limit on the procedure
March 20, 2024
A divided Supreme Court has lifted a stay on a Texas law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally while a legal battle over immigration authority plays out
March 19, 2024
An exploration of racism on social media and a history of Native Americans are among the winners of J
March 19, 2024
A group of Buddhist faith leaders and community members gathered in the city of Antioch, California, for the “first national Buddhist memorial service and pilgrimage in response to anti-Asian hate.”
March 19, 2024
Contrary to popular belief, there has been some defense played in the NBA this season
March 19, 2024
Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders
March 19, 2024
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday
March 18, 2024
The history of slavery in America is the focus of a new sculpture park in Montgomery, Alabama
March 18, 2024
From April 19 to June 1, nearly 970 million Indians are eligible to vote in general elections
March 18, 2024
Democracy takes many forms, and some are more direct than others
March 18, 2024
Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio
March 16, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris says it's “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States
March 15, 2024
Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the Supreme Court Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction
March 15, 2024
The rights of LGBTQ+ people continue to be in flux across the U.S. with a new flurry of developments
March 15, 2024
Senate Republicans are taking aim at a new federal courts policy aimed at curbing “judge shopping,” a practice that gained national attention in a major abortion medication case
March 14, 2024
A ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court is raising the bar for religions to show that their charity arms deserve tax exemptions
March 14, 2024
With the Supreme Court’s approval hovering near record lows, two justices have teamed up to promote the art of disagreeing without being nasty about it
March 14, 2024
Racism can be a workplace issue, even at Home Depot.
March 14, 2024
As the national debate over Black history continues, one aspect of the legacy of race in America is undergoing something of a rebirth: Black cemeteries that were established in the era of segregation
March 14, 2024
Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders says it is unfair and “constitutionally wrong” that he had to sacrifice his leadership aspirations in order to pave the way for a right-wing ruling coalition in the Netherlands after his party won elections in November
March 14, 2024
A Japanese high court has ruled that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions
March 14, 2024
More than half of Americans say they are against college athletes unionizing, though younger respondents were more supportive than older, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
March 13, 2024
Cubans are often divided on many issues
March 13, 2024
Ohlone people and others are rejoicing over the return of sacred Native land dating back thousands of years
March 13, 2024
Federal courts are moving to make it harder to file lawsuits in front of judges seen as friendly to a point of view, a practice known as judge shopping that gained national attention in a major abortion-medication case
March 12, 2024
“Pics, or it didn't happen” has been a common refrain when seeking proof that someone’s story or some event actually took place
March 12, 2024
His writing won China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping’s China
March 12, 2024
Online influencer Andrew Tate has been detained in Romania and handed an arrest warrant issued by British authorities
March 12, 2024
Joe Biden and Donald Trump hope to clinch their parties’ presidential nominations with dominant victories in a slate of low-profile state primaries as the 2024 fight for the White House lurches into a new phase
March 12, 2024
“Barbenheimer” brought a bump not a boom to Oscars ratings
March 11, 2024
An independent report has found New Jersey and the nation were not prepared when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the state remains underprepared for the next emergency
March 11, 2024
School board members in one Massachusetts district have called for the National Guard to address student misbehavior. Does their request have merit? A school discipline expert weighs in.
March 11, 2024
The sexual abuse of children by Catholic sisters and nuns has been overshadowed by far more common reports of male clergy abuse
March 11, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power almost 25 years ago and since then he's eliminated nearly all independent media — a process he ramped up after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
March 11, 2024
President Joe Biden made abortion and reproductive rights a central theme of his State of the Union speech, but he never mentioned the word “abortion.”
March 10, 2024
President Joe Biden says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in how he is approaching its war against Hamas in Gaza
March 09, 2024
Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine, facing possible defeat, should have the courage to negotiate an end to the war with Russia and not be ashamed to sit at the same table to carry out peace talks
March 09, 2024
Njeri Migwi is the co-founder of a community-based organization called Usikimye, which means “Don't be silent” in Swahili
March 09, 2024
The United Nations chief says legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality has become an uphill struggle against rank discrimination and gross human human rights abuses
March 09, 2024
A panel featuring Meghan the Duchess of Sussex came together on International Women’s Day to discuss how women and mothers are portrayed in traditional media and across social media, among other issues
March 08, 2024
Indiana lawmakers have passed a bill that defines antisemitism in education code
March 08, 2024
President Joe Biden is facing disappointment and anger from some allies for calling the suspect in the killing of a Georgia nursing student an “illegal” during his State of the Union speech
March 08, 2024
President Joe Biden is all-in on calling out “shrinkflation.”
March 08, 2024
The New York Police Department has been taking a more active role in trying to influence public policy through slick online videos and social media posts
March 08, 2024
Fresh off his defiant State of the Union address, President Joe Biden and his senior aides will barnstorm the country starting Friday to aggressively sell his vision for a second term to voters
March 08, 2024
For all its praise, the film furthers the dominant narrative of the bombs as a morally fraught but necessary project, with American anxieties playing a starring role.
March 08, 2024
By compiling stories about the accomplishments of women, Christine set out to build an allegorical city where women and their achievements would be safe from sexist insults and slander.
March 08, 2024
Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children’s agency
March 08, 2024
Russians who are too fearful to protest in the streets are finding an outlet for their activism by writing letters to political prisoners
March 08, 2024
France’s leaders will use a Napoleon-era press to seal the right to abortion into the country's constitution
March 08, 2024
During the State of the Union address, the House speaker and vice president sit behind the president
March 08, 2024
Republicans had demanded it but never expected President Joe Biden to say it during his State of the Union address
March 08, 2024
The State of the Union was one of President Joe Biden's best chances to make the broadest possible case for his reelection
March 08, 2024
The Michigan Court of Appeals has denied a request to reconsider its earlier opinion stating that a former Grand Rapids police officer should stand trial for murder in the 2022 killing of a Black motorist
March 08, 2024
Sen. Katie Britt will call President Joe Biden a “dithering and diminished leader” in the Republican rebuttal to his State of the Union address Thursday evening
March 08, 2024
Shane Lowry knows he's playing good golf
March 07, 2024
Democratic lawmakers have walked out of a Kentucky House committee hearing as the GOP-led panel was taking up a bill to expand access to prebirth and newborn services for pregnant women carrying nonviable fetuses that are expected to die before or soon after birth
March 07, 2024
In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden will make an explicit appeal to the divided Congress for his “unity agenda.”
March 07, 2024
Women are underrepresented in architecture, occupying just 25% of jobs in the field. An architecture professor shares insights from her childhood on how those numbers can be turned around.
March 07, 2024
Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants
March 07, 2024
More than a quarter of female Black voters describe abortion as their top issue in this year’s presidential election
March 07, 2024
Kansas would require abortion providers to ask patients why they’re terminating their pregnancies and report the answers to the state under a measure moving through the Republican-controlled Legislature
March 07, 2024
President Joe Biden is set to use his State of the Union address to promote his vision for a second term to a dispirited electorate who questions whether he’s up to the job and to warn that GOP front-runner Donald Trump would be a dangerous alternative
March 07, 2024
Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married, opened a law firm and had two babies
March 07, 2024
The U_S_ Constitution spells it out clearly in Article II, Section 3: The president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
March 06, 2024
Disagreements among Indiana lawmakers could stop passage of a bill aiming to address antisemitism on college campuses, leaving Indiana students and professors uneasy as divisions surrounding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war deepen
March 06, 2024
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has offered his “deepest sympathy” to the family of a 5-year-old girl who was seriously injured in a drunken driving crash, after facing criticism for releasing from prison the driver who caused the crash, former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid
March 06, 2024
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds few Americans want the U.S. to take a more active role in solving the world's problems
March 06, 2024
When it comes to electing a woman president, the ceiling holds
March 06, 2024
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Donald Trump for president
March 06, 2024
Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are worried about biased AI and the need to perform the ‘right’ expressions and body language for the algorithms.
March 06, 2024
Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey has secured a U.S. Senate showdown with Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on a shoestring budget and with a light campaign schedule
March 06, 2024
Over the last decade, Vladimir Putin’s government has evolved from tolerating dissent to ruthlessly suppressing any activities or people who dared challenge it
March 06, 2024
Donald Trump's lawyers say the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer E
March 06, 2024
The Academy Awards honor many things in movies but not some of the most important
March 05, 2024
The Veterans Affairs secretary is reversing a department memo that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square” photograph showing a Navy sailor kissing a strange woman on the streets of New York at the end of World War II
March 05, 2024
Three philanthropy scholars discuss several trends in giving by the wealthiest Americans highlighted in this yearly report. Among them: Much of this money doesn’t go to charities right away.
March 05, 2024
Though only a few of Scorsese’s films focus on religious stories, deeper questions about faith, doubt and living in a violent world tend to haunt his movies.
March 05, 2024
Hopefully, Academy Award winners will be chosen because voters believed in the actors’ performances − not because of some meta narrative about their off-screen behavior.
March 05, 2024
A union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak to anyone outside the Justice Department, potentially quieting a frequent critic of heavily backlogged immigration courts in an election year
March 05, 2024
A far-right, unofficial Catholic media site has agreed to pay $500,000 to a New Hampshire priest who sued for defamation over a 2019 article
March 04, 2024
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker says she's very concerned by the arrest of two of the city's top LGBTQ leaders during a highway stop
March 04, 2024
:Former President Donald Trump scored a clear win at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, which unanimously ruled that states don’t have the ability to bar him — or any other federal candidates — from the ballot under a rarely-used constitutional provision that prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office
March 04, 2024
Candidates on the verge of winning their parties’ nominations generally change their messaging as part of a so-called pivot
March 04, 2024
With attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives raging, Black women looking to climb the corporate ladder face a more hostile landscape than ever
March 04, 2024
The proposed move of the Capitals and Wizards sports teams to nearby Virginia has stoked concern in a pair of fragile Washington neighborhoods
March 04, 2024
A poll finds that a growing share of U.S. adults doubt that 81-year-old President Joe Biden has the memory and acuity for the job
March 04, 2024
There are few times in a American presidency that the art of speechwriting is more on display than during a State of the Union
March 03, 2024
Jos Verstappen says the Red Bull Formula One team will “explode” if Christian Horner stays on as team principal
March 03, 2024
Super Tuesday is almost here, with 16 states holding contests this coming week
March 03, 2024
Teachers at Head Start child care centers are paid far less than public school teachers, even though they have similar credentials
March 03, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day Alabama law officers attacked Civil Rights demonstrators at the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
March 03, 2024
Democratic voters in suburban Minneapolis seem far less interested in sending President Joe Biden a message of dissatisfaction with him than they are in keeping Republican Donald Trump from returning to the White House
March 02, 2024
The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest says the world’s highest peak is too crowded and too dirty and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected
March 02, 2024
Groups representing Alabama doctors and hospitals are urging the state Supreme Court to revisit a decision equating frozen embryos to children
March 02, 2024
The final images of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are tinged with deep despair for many of his compatrios
March 01, 2024
Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident and leading proponent of human rights who was imprisoned twice but never left the island, will be awarded the 2024 International Women of Courage Award, a recognition granted by the U.S. Department of State
March 01, 2024
The success of the African American Film Critics Association didn’t happen overnight
March 01, 2024
Black Americans have endured considerable injustices and barriers to prosperity and equality throughout U.S. history
March 01, 2024
The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children has created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples trying to have families through fertility treatments
March 01, 2024
Most Americans see China as the biggest threat to the US. But away from headline economic figures, China has a slew of challenges.
March 01, 2024
The United Kingdom is poised to hold its first election in five years in a country battered by the cost-of-living crisis, the fallout from Israel-Hamas conflict and deep divisions over how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from Europe on small inflatable boats
March 01, 2024
A Des Moines arts organization is preparing to rip out a roughly 30-year-old artwork that lines a beloved pond in a historic city park, outraging arts advocates nationally and surprising local residents
March 01, 2024
Cable television is filled with ghosts
March 01, 2024
Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony
March 01, 2024
Georgia Republicans are voting to protect religious rights from state and local governments
March 01, 2024
More than one-third of the total delegates available in both the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries will be awarded on Super Tuesday, when 16 states and one territory hold presidential nominating contests
February 29, 2024
South Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature has approved the creation of a video to outline the state’s abortion laws and to clarify when health care providers are legally allowed to intervene
February 29, 2024
Stacy Wakefield is being remembered for her passion for service, which included visits with cancer-stricken kids up until the final months of her life
February 29, 2024
A small nicotine pouch called Zyn has sparked a big debate among politicians, pundits and experts
February 29, 2024
A bill which criminalizes LGBTQ+ people in Ghana and their supporters has drawn international condemnation after it was passed by parliament, with the United Nations calling it “profoundly disturbing” and urging for it not to become law
February 29, 2024
The editor-in-chief of the renowned Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has been detained in Moscow after being accused of discrediting Russia’s armed forces
February 29, 2024
Satirical French newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out on Feb. 29, once every four years
February 29, 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says Britain is descending into “mob rule” because of the pressures created by protests against the Israel-Hamas war
February 29, 2024
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for military aid for Ukraine
February 29, 2024
Dearborn and two other Michigan cities with large Arab and Muslim populations turned against President Joe Biden in the state’s primary after Democratic leaders there warned for months that voters were angry about his handling of the Israel-Hamas war
February 28, 2024
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he interfered with the 2020 election and has set a course for a quick resolution
February 28, 2024
Old age may be debated as a liability on the presidential campaign trail, but it's not at this year’s Oscars
February 28, 2024
Here’s how things seem to work regarding LIV Golf and Rory McIlroy: Someone says something, the other side responds, and the cycle just keeps repeating from one topic to the next
February 28, 2024
Supporters who want to make South Carolina the next-to-last U.S. state to pass a hate crimes law increasing penalties for some crimes fueled by race, gender or sexual orientation are running out of time
February 28, 2024
A survey of 24 democratic countries by the Pew Research Center has found that while representative democracy remains a favorite system of governance around the globe, its appeal is slipping on the eve of elections worldwide
February 28, 2024
The number of monthly abortions in the U.S. is similar to what it was before the nation's top court overturned the right to abortion
February 28, 2024
Talor Gooch knows all about sports that are louder
February 27, 2024
No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored glasses − and even grew to resent it.
February 27, 2024
An author and ghost writer’s life story, from prison and drug addiction to collaborating with the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu among others, is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club selection
February 27, 2024
Efforts in Republican-led states to write definitions of male and female into law are leading to outcry that the measures deny transgender people legal recognition
February 27, 2024
San Francisco’s supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city
February 27, 2024
For political prisoners, life in Russia’s penal colonies and labor camps is a grim reality of physical and psychological pressure, insufficient food, poor health care, sleep deprivation and arbitrary rules that are impossible to obey
February 27, 2024
More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members have demanded that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth grade and women’s right to work and move freely
February 27, 2024
Hundreds of medical professionals in West Virginia have signed onto a letter condemning a bill advancing in the state House of Delegates that would bar transgender youth at risk for suicide from accessing medical interventions like hormone therapy
February 26, 2024
Donald Trump appears close to invincible in the early Republican primaries and caucuses, but his strength among general election voters remains unclear
February 26, 2024
The Russian authorities have sought a prison sentence of nearly three years for a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine
February 26, 2024
President Joe Biden and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox are calling for less bitterness and more bipartisanship in American politics
February 25, 2024
While President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are the overwhelming favorites to once again win their parties’ nomination for a second term, they’re not the “presumptive nominees” just yet
February 24, 2024
Former President Donald Trump cast November’s presidential election as “judgment day” and declared himself a “political dissident” during a speech before conservative activists outside of Washington
February 24, 2024
Major League Baseball’s move to slice two seconds off the pitch clock with runners on base is too much, too soon, according to the head of the players’ union
February 24, 2024
Polls suggest South Africa faces a historic turning point in a national election in May
February 24, 2024
An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumvented the law and engaged in misconduct
February 24, 2024
A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S. Lawmakers in at least six states have proposals to allow women to seek child support back to conception
February 24, 2024
Former President Donald Trump claims his multiple criminal indictments have boosted his support among Black Americans because they see him as a victim of discrimination
February 24, 2024
Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them
February 24, 2024
Former President Donald Trump says he would “strongly support the availability of IVF" for couples who are trying to have a baby
February 23, 2024
First lady Jill Biden is lamenting the partisanship that permeates Capitol Hill and politics writ large, telling governors at the White House that she wishes more lawmakers would follow their lead
February 23, 2024
When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered children under state law, its chief justice had a higher authority in mind
February 23, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is promising to use a second term in the White House to defend Christian values and is suggesting he’ll protect the faith's central icon, warning a convention of religious broadcasters that the left wants “to tear down crosses.”
February 23, 2024
Georgia lawmakers are revisiting a nearly decade-old fight over whether the state needs to protect religious rights from being trampled by state and local governments
February 23, 2024
Democrats and reproductive rights groups are seizing on a ruling this week by the Alabama Supreme Court that plunges the future of access to in vitro fertilization, commonly known as IVF, into uncertainty
February 22, 2024
Don’t call them nostalgic
February 22, 2024
Donald Trump says he’s being politically persecuted, like Russian democracy martyr Alexei Navalny, who died while in a Russian prison on Feb. 16. A scholar says there’s no comparison between the men.
February 22, 2024
Tucker Carlson’s sycophantic interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and his subsequent praise for Russia’s subways, supermarkets and cheeseburgers, was not journalism. It was propaganda.
February 22, 2024
Evidence from NYC shows that stop-and-frisk policing leads to greater mistrust of police and more racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
February 22, 2024
An animated fetus that develops over the course of a three-minute video has become a new front in state-level abortion politics
February 22, 2024
President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” during a fundraiser for his reelection campaign Wednesday night
February 22, 2024
Green Bay schools has released the recording of its first Black superintendent’s appearance on an Atlanta radio show where he made blunt comments about race relations, criticized the community and derided one of the district’s principals
February 21, 2024
Donald Trump’s mythic ability to raise massive sums of political cash may be on a collision course with a new reality
February 21, 2024
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the federal government’s argument that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to continue enforcing its anti-air-pollution rule in 11 states
February 21, 2024
The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law
February 21, 2024
Marriage on its own won’t do away with child poverty, and in fact it can create even more instability for low-income families.
February 21, 2024
When Tucker Carlson asked Vladimir Putin about his reasons for invading Ukraine two years ago, Putin gave him a lecture on Russian history
February 21, 2024
There have been no declarations that journalists are the “enemy of the people.”
February 21, 2024
The Biden administration is wading into a contentious debate about whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems should be “open-source” or closed
February 21, 2024
A lawsuit by Black descendants of slaves that challenges zoning changes affecting their island homes is before a Georgia judge, who must decide whether to allow lawyers to amend the civil complaint to avoid having it dismissed
February 20, 2024
A presidential candidate’s ‘home state advantage’ should help them win a primary, which then bodes well for how they do in successive contests. But if they lose their home state, they’re in trouble.
February 20, 2024
Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow South still haunt modern memory.
February 20, 2024
The third-term president has used his experience and personal relationships with lawmakers to build the majorities that now support his agenda.
February 20, 2024
Since he became a force in Republican politics, Donald Trump has figured prominently in U.S. Senate races, shaping which GOP contenders get nominated
February 20, 2024
Nikki Haley is using the closing days of the South Carolina GOP primary matchup with Donald Trump to hone her argument that she is the lone remaining candidate who can unite Americans
February 19, 2024
A college administrator offers insights into the rocky rollout of the Department of Education’s supposedly ‘simplified’ financial aid form.
February 19, 2024
For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being tempered this year by a troublesome uncertainty over whether they’ll get the financial aid they need to attend
February 19, 2024
The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official, who called the mass a scandal within one of the preeminent houses of worship in U.S. Catholicism
February 19, 2024
Israel has condemned Brazil’s president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II
February 18, 2024
A Republican opponent of new U.S. funding for Ukraine has argued at an international security conference that the package stuck in Congress wouldn’t “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground and that Russia has an incentive to negotiate peace
February 18, 2024
A lot people think Google searches are getting worse
February 17, 2024
Many Americans believe the United States was founded as a Christian nation
February 17, 2024
Large numbers of Americans believe the founders intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation
February 17, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned allies that an “artificial deficit” of weapons for his country risks giving Russia breathing space after his military chief said he was withdrawing troops from the eastern city of Avdiivka
February 17, 2024
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ testimony about her relationship with a special prosecutor in Georgia’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump was a familiar scene for many Black women
February 17, 2024
A Black author says Georgia's white founding father deserves credit for inspiring the abolitionist movement that ultimately ended slavery
February 17, 2024
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is suing the county that includes Las Vegas over its new ban on standing or stopping while crossing pedestrian bridges on the Strip
February 16, 2024
A major anti-abortion group is praising a published report that Donald Trump has privately told people he supports a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks of pregnancy — though his campaign denied the report and said Trump plans to “negotiate a deal” on abortion if elected to the White House again
February 16, 2024
The U.S. Census Bureau is thinking about how to ask about sex
February 16, 2024
Both men have faced criticism about what can appear to be obvious signs of aging, including questions about their memory and cognitive abilities.
February 16, 2024
U_S_ women’s national team captain Lindsey Horan apologized Thursday for recent comments in which she said American soccer fans “aren’t smart” and they “don’t know the game.”
February 16, 2024
Kansas City's mayor and security experts say it could be time to rethink the way teams celebrate their championships
February 15, 2024
Go into many bookstores, and the nonfiction shelves will be dominated by men
February 15, 2024
The colorful bubble letters have attracted praise and condemnation, with taggers seeing their work as a gift to the city, while others decry it as rampant vandalism.
February 15, 2024
A federal judge has voiced concerns over a Texas law that would give police broad authority to arrest migrants on charges of illegal entry starting in March
February 15, 2024
Greece's parliament is set to legalize same-sex civil marriage
February 15, 2024
Special counsel Jack Smith has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case proceed to trial without further delay
February 14, 2024
A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical experts
February 14, 2024
Representatives of several human rights organizations have held a press conference demanding the immediate release of a prominent attorney and activist detained last week
February 14, 2024
Black History Month was celebrated in the nation's capital with dueling events on Tuesday highlighting the divide between Democrats’ and Republicans' approaches to courting Black voters in the 2024 presidential election
February 14, 2024
The stigma around poverty and government benefits can make those initiatives less effective.
February 14, 2024
Media coverage of vice presidential candidates tends to focus on who can help win the election rather than who is qualified to help govern once in office.
February 14, 2024
Conservative politicians have launched attacks against the use of the word “woke.” If they knew the history of the word, they might stop wasting their time.
February 14, 2024
The caption may say that only scientists and trained professionals should handle wild animals, but viewers remember the image, not the words.
February 14, 2024
It's Valentine's Day and Jill Biden is again sending her love to Americans through an art display on the White House lawn
February 14, 2024
Love is in the air
February 14, 2024
Lawmakers have begun a debate on a landmark bill to legalize same-sex marriage that would make Greece the first Orthodox Christian country to do so
February 14, 2024
About two-thirds of Jewish Americans felt less secure in late 2023 than they did a year earlier, according to a survey mostly conducted after the Hamas attack
February 14, 2024
With its impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the House exercised its oversight power. How can you tell if it was it a legitimate use of that power?
February 14, 2024
San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan has heard the criticism that for some reason he is unable to win the big game
February 13, 2024
Less than a year after Tennessee Republicans tried to expel her from the state House, Democrat Gloria Johnson is seeking another term there while simultaneously waging an uphill campaign for U.S. Senate
February 13, 2024
President Joe Biden says Donald Trump’s comments calling into question the U_S_ commitment to defend its NATO allies from attack were “dangerous” and “un-American.”
February 13, 2024
Abortion rights advocates are trying to get initiatives to protect reproductive health on the ballot in several states this year
February 13, 2024
In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that within a century, the normal workweek would decrease to 15 hours. Why was he wrong?
February 13, 2024
An education expert explains the potential benefits and drawbacks of year-round schooling in Philadelphia.
February 13, 2024
Nearly two-thirds of American Jews feel less secure in the U.S. than they did a year ago
February 13, 2024
The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreck havoc
February 13, 2024
Years before starting a family of her own, Stella Belia was already waging a tireless campaign for legal recognition
February 13, 2024
Throngs of revelers have taken to the streets of Germany’s Carnival strongholds along with floats that satirized the Ukrainian and Russian presidents, German politicians, former U.S. President Donald Trump and many others
February 12, 2024
Imprecision in election polling has long been recognized. But advance polls are still useful in recognizing trends in voter preferences, and candidates’ weak points.
February 12, 2024
Words have power, and what vocabulary you have at your disposal to describe your relationships with other people can shape what directions those relationships can take.
February 12, 2024
Stopping someone against their will can be false imprisonment or even kidnapping. There are laws that determine who is acting as a hero and who is acting as a vigilante.
February 12, 2024
Scholars discuss aspects of protecting election integrity in the face of efforts to cast aspersions on voting results.
February 12, 2024
The show has served as the nation’s laugh track for decades. Who will take over when he retires?
February 12, 2024
The final results of Pakistan's parliamentary elections are out
February 12, 2024
There's consensus in Virginia that the mental health care system is in need of reform, due to what Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says is an overreliance on hospitalization at a time of growing need
February 12, 2024
San Francisco's decision to take the ball first in overtime of the Super Bowl will be debated for a while
February 12, 2024
Argentina’s faith and politics have come together at the Vatican
February 11, 2024
Dexter Scott King, the late son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was remembered Saturday as the protector of his family’s legacy and the keeper of the deam during a memorial service in Atlanta
February 11, 2024
The race for the Republican nomination got personal Saturday when Donald Trump questioned the absence of Nikki Haley’s husband on the campaign trail
February 11, 2024
As the world's third-largest democracy prepares for national elections on Wednesday, women and minority candidates face questions about whether voters will accept them
February 10, 2024
Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays that haters love to hate
February 10, 2024
Democrats have been reminded of President Joe Biden’s political shortcomings this week
February 10, 2024
Historically, Asian Americans have been stereotyped as more brains than brawn or “foreigners” when it comes to sports like football
February 09, 2024
An Ohio city is dropping criminal charges against a pastor over his around-the-clock ministry to the homeless and others in need of help while the two sides work to end the dispute that has landed in federal court
February 09, 2024
After winning Nevada’s Republican caucuses late Thursday night, Former President Donald Trump is heading to Pennsylvania for a speech before the National Rifle Association
February 09, 2024
These moving poems are a reminder that on Valentine’s Day, it’s OK to celebrate a broader definition of love.
February 09, 2024
For decades, the plotline for LGBTQ+ activism in the U.S. was one of advances — often slow but moving forward
February 09, 2024
How will America’s suburbs vote this year
February 09, 2024
Kansas’ attorney general is telling public schools that they’re required to tell parents their children are transgender or non-binary even if they’re not out at home
February 09, 2024
For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize the man whose death reignited a movement against systemic racism
February 09, 2024
The results of Pakistan’s elections were being delayed by connectivity issues a day after the vote that was marred by sporadic violence, a mobile phone service shutdown and the sidelining of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party
February 09, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has used an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to urge Washington to recognize Moscow’s interests and persuade Ukraine to sit down for talks
February 09, 2024
A ruling by Hawaii’s high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit uses pop culture references in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationwide
February 08, 2024
Casting directors are some of the most important creatives in Hollywood but have never been celebrated as such on Hollywood’s biggest night
February 08, 2024
Silent Donor is flourishing just as the privacy debate for contributors heats up, especially for those using donor-advised funds to anonymously give to their favorite, and sometimes controversial, causes while also getting a tax break
February 08, 2024
Some conservatives on cable news or on social media have speculated that Taylor Swift is part of an elaborate plot to help Democrats win the November election
February 08, 2024
Think the norm is to join the workforce straight after school, work for five decades and then retire? Think again.
February 08, 2024
Nikki Haley is launching a bus tour before South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary on Feb. 24
February 08, 2024
Former President Donald Trump’s appeal to remain on the 2024 ballot is coming before the Supreme Court
February 08, 2024
It's been 12 years since a pair of conservative writers compared a prominent climate scientist to a convicted child molester for his depiction of global warming
February 07, 2024
About half of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. believe the country is giving too much support of Israelis and not enough for Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza
February 07, 2024
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to apologize for a remark he made about transgender people, moments after he was informed that the mother of a murdered transgender teenager was in Parliament
February 07, 2024
Two freelance journalists have won $100,000 prizes for work that impacts underrepresented communities
February 07, 2024
Foundations and major donors are mobilizing to respond to court cases like the Supreme Court’s June decision ending affirmative action at universities
February 07, 2024
You’d call the police if a stranger in public did what many bullies at work get away with. 2 researchers who study workplace violence describe the widespread phenomenon.
February 07, 2024
The work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.
February 07, 2024
The NFL’s embrace of the sport points to a promising future. But gender and political divides could stand in the way.
February 07, 2024
Polarization invades parts of Americans’ lives that really aren’t political, dividing society more deeply. That includes decisions about whether or not they like meatloaf or chili.
February 07, 2024
The title of Spain’s Eurovision song “Zorra" can be translated as an anti-female slur, and it's causing a storm among conservatives and feminists
February 07, 2024
Florida’s attorney general is expected to ask the state Supreme Court to keep an abortion-rights measure off November’s ballot
February 07, 2024
Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a resolution condemning an opinion piece that called a Detroit suburb “America's jihad capital.”
February 06, 2024
Carole Baskin, who became a pop culture sensation due to Netflix’s docuseries “Tiger King,” has asked the Florida Supreme Court to review an appellate court’s ruling that said she isn’t protected from a defamation lawsuit brought by a former assistant
February 06, 2024
Although most Americans believe dietary supplements are safe, these products often make health claims that are unproven or downright false.
February 06, 2024
Politics and the lack of compensation are among the factors that can undermine the peer review process, which is important to the quality of knowledge in academic journals.
February 06, 2024
‘Winning’ in negotiations isn’t always the best approach.
February 06, 2024
Catholic dogma continues to repudiate same-sex marriage and gender transition
February 06, 2024
Pakistan is holding elections for a new parliament on Thursday
February 06, 2024
The Supreme Court will be taking its first look in the 156-year history of the 14th Amendment at a provision, Section 3, that’s meant to keep former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from ever regaining power
February 06, 2024
El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has called himself the “world’s coolest dictator” or as his X profile read on election day, the “Philosopher King.”
February 05, 2024
How did a musician whose songs were suffused with messages of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism become so commercialized?
February 05, 2024
Russian media and rights groups say the first publicly known cases have emerged of Russian authorities penalizing people under a court ruling that outlawed LGBTQ+ activism as extremism
February 05, 2024
Students are invited to imagine how the social, political and legal landscape for cannabis will look in the future.
February 05, 2024
The centrality of race to US politics is, once again, a defining feature of the current presidential campaign.
February 05, 2024
The Democratic mayor of San Francisco is pushing a March 5 ballot measure that would require single adults on welfare be screened and treated for illegal drug addiction or else lose cash assistance
February 05, 2024
Heavily Democratic California might appear an unlikely national battleground
February 05, 2024
Dearborn, Michigan, is ramping up security after an opinion piece described the city as “America’s jihad capital.”
February 05, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley poked fun at herself over a campaign misstep over the Civil War and slavery, but her primary target during a “Saturday Night Live” appearance was Donald Trump
February 04, 2024
Criticism of President Joe Biden by a far-right minister in Israel’s government has sparked outrage at a sensitive time for Israel's relations with Washington
February 04, 2024
Hundreds of U.S. communities have enacted “crime-free” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict tenants after repeated calls to police or for emergency services
February 04, 2024
With legal disputes escalating over the use of name, image and likeness compensation in the recruitment of college athletes, Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino believes it’s time for the NCAA to stand down when it comes to policing member schools
February 04, 2024
The US attacks on military sites in Iraq and Syria are unlikely to further escalate conflict in the Middle East, he writes.
February 03, 2024
President Joe Biden is getting his first test of the 2024 campaign during the Democrats' first presidential primary
February 03, 2024
Hamas’ demand that Israel release Marwan Barghouti brings new attention to a man many Palestinians see as their Nelson Mandela
February 03, 2024
The Kansas City Chiefs have built a Super Bowl-worthy defense over the past two years in part because they made the difficult decision to trade Tyreek Hill away
February 03, 2024
A family with an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as a centerpiece for a billion-dollar project honoring veterans is abandoning the idea
February 03, 2024
The Supreme Court is allowing West Point to continue taking race into account in admissions, while a lawsuit over its policies continues
February 02, 2024
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit against the Republican-controlled Legislature arguing that it is obstructing basic government functions
February 02, 2024
During a campaign speech in South Carolina, President Biden made it clear that he is not only running against Donald Trump but also against white supremacy.
February 02, 2024
In a pre-Grammy event, singer Mariah Carey used the Recording Academy stage to speak about fighting against conforming to certain music industry standards in an effort to create her music that would eventually appeal to the masses
February 02, 2024
A poster in the southern Spanish city of Seville that depicts a young, handsome, Jesus wearing only a loincloth has unleashed a storm on social media
February 02, 2024
Cyprus' president has obligated all government ministers to sign a declaration affirming a “zero-tolerance” policy on all sexist attitudes and behavior
February 02, 2024
The commission has tight deadlines to finalize new maps. 2 voting rights experts explain the messy situation.
February 02, 2024
With international climate talks failing to make progress fast enough, activists are shifting their emphasis to local battles − in the streets, political arenas and courtrooms.
February 02, 2024
The retired judge says the judiciary doesn’t ‘do justice’ but follows the law and the facts, which doesn’t always mean a sympathetic or compassionate ending.
February 02, 2024
A new poll shows half of U_S_ adults believe Israel's war in Gaza has “gone too far."
February 02, 2024
Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor’s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane
February 02, 2024
Author Ellen Gilchrist has died at age 88
February 02, 2024
One of the great interspecies love stories of our time has come to an end
February 01, 2024
Nikki Haley’s messages on race are sometimes contradictory
February 01, 2024
Anti-smoking groups aren’t just fighting the tobacco companies these days
February 01, 2024
A passionate student letter prompted a southern Pennsylvania school district to change its Native American logo years ago
February 01, 2024
The idea that the Swift-Kelce romance is some sort of deep-state plot is perhaps gaining traction in far-right circles because it lines up with the political right’s broader agenda and beliefs.
February 01, 2024
More than 200 reporters, photographers and other staffers with the Chicago Tribune and six other newsrooms around the nation are on a 24-hour strike to protest years of “slow-walked” contract negotiations and to demand fair wages
February 01, 2024
With growing polarization, political attitudes have begun to coincide with moral convictions. Partisans increasingly view each other as immoral. New research reveals the depth of that conviction.
February 01, 2024
On the 100th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s death, a presidential historian looks at how he was able to stay in power despite his illnesses.
February 01, 2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is on trial for protesting outside a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year
February 01, 2024
At Fox News, the presidential primary appears over and has been for some time
February 01, 2024
A Dallas pastor is the new head of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition civil rights group, stepping into the role that has been held for decades by the Rev. Jesse Jackson
February 01, 2024
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a law defining antisemitism in state law
January 31, 2024
Abortion-rights supporters are mounting another push to restore abortion access in Kentucky
January 31, 2024
Conspiracy theories seem to be everywhere these days
January 31, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has vowed to drive Ukrainian forces back to reduce the threat of attacks on Russian territory as he met with activists running his campaign ahead of the March presidential election that he’s all but certain to win
January 31, 2024
It's not uncommon to believe conspiracy theories, and surveys show that many Americans believe in at least one of them
January 31, 2024
Fueled by the internet, conspiracy theories are having a big moment in America
January 31, 2024
Sometimes a story is more appealing than the truth
January 31, 2024
Since the Salem witch trials, tales of dark plots and secret organizations have emerged time and again across the land that become the United States, and such conspiracies have influenced public opinion and even the outcome of elections
January 31, 2024
The death of a protester in 2023 at the site of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center has brought renewed attention to radical environmentalism in the United States.
January 31, 2024
Many people with eating disorders die from suicide. Improving perception of internal body states, or interoception, can help everyone better care for their own bodies.
January 31, 2024
Social media companies have come under intense pressure to do more to protect teens, but there’s another concern – they could go too far.
January 31, 2024
American men see manhood in opposition to womanhood. Danes, on the other hand, see manhood as not acting immaturely, as a boy would.
January 31, 2024
Rory McIlroy continues his softening against LIV Golf
January 31, 2024
For as long as trans medicine has been around, so has its opposition. The tactics of prior waves of anti-trans policies are still in play today.
January 30, 2024
A second Trump presidency may be a danger to democracy, but that’s more to do with the Republican Party than Trump himself, researchers of authoritarianism explain.
January 30, 2024
At the turn of the 20th century, Southern sympathizers started building monuments to Confederate leaders. Black newspaper editors saw these emblems clearly for what they stood for – a lost cause.
January 30, 2024
The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index says efforts to fight public sector corruption are faltering and blames in part a “global decline in justice and the rule of law since 2016.”
January 30, 2024
The Republican National Committee is meeting behind closed doors in Las Vegas this week, but top party officials will no longer consider a resolution proposed to declare former President Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee
January 30, 2024
Retired conservative federal judge urges Supreme Court to disqualify Trump from office
January 29, 2024
A school's diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator in Maine has left the state for fear of his family's safety after receiving a threatening, hateful letter from a white supremacist
January 29, 2024
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says the court ruling blocking her presidential candidacy represents “judicial criminality
January 29, 2024
There’s no doubt which wins in the club vs
January 29, 2024
Mass arrests and the suspension of constitutional rights have been a feature of President Nayib Bukele’s tenure. A fresh mandate from voters will likely entrench his hardline approach.
January 29, 2024
Turns out ‘A’ didn’t have to be the first letter in the alphabet, nor ‘Z’ the last.
January 29, 2024
Poland has protested a mistake in a social media post by the head of the European Commission that wrongly suggested the World War II Auschwitz death camp was Polish
January 28, 2024
A majority of U.S. taxpayers feel they pay too much in taxes, with many saying that they receive a poor value in return
January 28, 2024
Black voters support the reelection of President Joe Biden at a surprisingly low level, according to recent AP polling
January 28, 2024
A white officer in suburban Detroit lied to a Black pedestrian by identifying an officer from another force as his supervisor during a 2021 police stop
January 28, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has praised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for defying the Biden administration over immigration
January 28, 2024
Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and promote compassion and dialogue amid rising global sectarian hatred fueled by Israel’s war in Gaza
January 27, 2024
Holocaust survivor Gad Partok never thought he'd live to see horrors like the ones he witnessed as a young boy in Tunisia when Nazis invaded his town and killed many of his neighbors
January 27, 2024
Voters in Taiwan recently repelled a wave of disinformation seeking to undermine their democracy ahead of this month's recent election
January 27, 2024
A military panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has recommended 23 years in detention for two Malaysian men in connection with a deadly 2002 bombings in Bali
January 26, 2024
President Joe Biden’s campaign manager has traveled to Michigan, where many Arab American leaders are enraged over the administration’s policy toward Israel, and found some top activists unwilling to meet
January 26, 2024
Lawyers seeking to keep Donald Trump off the ballot are urging the Supreme Court to declare he's ineligible to be president again because he spearheaded the U.S. Capitol attack in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss
January 26, 2024
The National Football League has urged teams for years to hire more minority head coaches
January 26, 2024
Humanoid robots tend to be white or resemble white people. Here’s why this is a problem and what social scientists, designers and engineers can do about it.
January 26, 2024
In a year when the Supreme Court deals with many high-profile cases, a professor who teaches law to undergraduates describes how to read the court’s opinions.
January 25, 2024
Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova are calling on the women’s tennis tour to stay out of Saudi Arabia
January 25, 2024
The fragility of peace settlements in the Balkans provides a cautionary tale. US and EU policymakers may inadvertently make matters worse by acceding to the aggressor’s territorial ambitions.
January 25, 2024
Your data privacy is under threat from hackers, data brokers and big tech. Here’s what you can do about it. Step 1 is to get your colleagues, friends and family on board.
January 25, 2024
Antisemitism is on the rise in Belgium since the Hamas attack against Israel that triggered a war in Gaza
January 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump could return to a New York courtroom this week to defend himself against a lawsuit seeking more than $10 million for things he said about advice columnist E
January 25, 2024
President Joe Biden is zeroing in on an expected rematch against Donald Trump after this week’s New Hampshire primaries
January 25, 2024
In the age-old battle of man versus nature, nature usually wins
January 25, 2024
Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department's heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020
January 25, 2024
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will call on lawmakers to pass increased investments in education in an attempt to save residents money in her sixth State of the State address Wednesday night
January 25, 2024
When the Academy Awards passed over Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie for best director and best actress for “Barbie,” many saw some the patriarchy of their film at work
January 24, 2024
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have extended an invitation to attend the president’s State of the Union address to a Texas woman who sued her state and lost over the ability to get an abortion to end a wanted pregnancy
January 24, 2024
Nikki Haley is trying to frame her Iowa and New Hampshire losses to Donald Trump as a victory
January 24, 2024
USA Basketball says it wants the best for Draymond Green, which is why the federation does not have him in its plans for the Paris Olympics
January 24, 2024
The United Nations’ top court says it will issue a decision Friday on South Africa’s request for interim orders in a genocide case against Israel, including that Israel halt its offensive in Gaza
January 24, 2024
The Republican primary campaign has barely begun
January 24, 2024
In the wake of US attacks against Houthi militants in Yemen, a scholar of presidential power to use the military examines the history and present of the laws around US military action.
January 24, 2024
Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei believes it his job to be “incorrect.”
January 24, 2024
President Joe Biden has won the New Hampshire Democratic primary as a write-in candidate
January 24, 2024
Billionaire businessman-environmentalist Tom Steyer has a book out this spring that combines personal and professional stories with a message on how to battle climate change
January 24, 2024
Patrick Kearon, the newest member of the body that governs The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has said he would like see the faith better care for sex abuse victims
January 23, 2024
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter says her late brother was a fierce and visionary steward of their father’s legacy
January 23, 2024
A Canadian judge has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of protests by truckers and others angry over COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was unreasonable and unconstitutional
January 23, 2024
New Oscar nominees are reacting to the news with glee, pride and humility
January 23, 2024
A Christian pastor says his small Ohio city would lose a beacon of light downtown if he has to close an around-the-clock ministry for homeless people and others seeking shelter
January 23, 2024
Even in a moment of extreme partisanship, ‘we’ still exist if ‘we’ can witness something together. Researchers are exploring how shared attention can build connection.
January 23, 2024
The whitewashing of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his crimes is crucial for understanding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ideology and goals.
January 23, 2024
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have joined forces at a rally in Virginia as they push for abortion rights
January 23, 2024
There's action on abortion policy in rulings, legislatures, and campaigns for candidates and ballot measures on the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade
January 22, 2024
Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the late civil rights leader Dr.
January 22, 2024
The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence and averted multiple attempts by the state to execute him
January 22, 2024
A New Hampshire election and politics expert agrees that independent voters are important in the state’s primary − but they shouldn’t be misconstrued with people who are registered as undeclared.
January 22, 2024
A court long known for its landmark decisions expanding civil rights is now known for highly conservative rulings reining in government power.
January 22, 2024
People may be surprised when they read a nutrition label on a bottle of wine. The industry should take note.
January 22, 2024
Vice presidential candidates typically aren’t tapped until after a candidate has locked down the nomination
January 22, 2024
Donald Trump is setting aside months of criticism and mockery of Ron DeSantis after the Florida governor dropped out of the presidential race
January 22, 2024
The Biden campaign is betting big on abortion rights as a major driver in this year's presidential election
January 21, 2024
AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan says too many people are “complicit” in allowing racism to continue blighting soccer and urges authorities to take stronger action after he suffered racist abuse on Saturday night
January 21, 2024
A French court has convicted three police officers of “voluntary violence” towards a youth worker in a Paris suburb who suffered serious injuries to his rectum after being assaulted with a police baton during an identity check seven years ago
January 20, 2024
Ohio's proposals for gender-affirming care could leave thousands of transgender adults scrambling to find medical providers who would be able to offer hormones and other services they rely on
January 20, 2024
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law after doctors told a woman with a nonviable pregnancy to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened enough to qualify for an abortion
January 19, 2024
With many players NFL eligible and others following unhappy starting quarterback Kyle McCord into the transfer portal, Ohio State football looked to be in for an unhappy winter
January 19, 2024
Apologies can easily go awry if they’re not made in a certain way.
January 19, 2024
Thousands of opponents of abortion rights went marching in Washington after speakers urged the impassioned crowd to capitalize on the movement’s major victory in the Supreme Court and keep fighting until abortion is eliminated
January 19, 2024
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are highlighting the battle over abortion rights
January 18, 2024
Nikki Haley is the latest American female politician to shift her language, depending on whom she is talking to and where. But this tactic has a flip side, prompting criticism of her as inconsistent.
January 18, 2024
A professor of nonprofit law explains why drafting any restrictions on charities requires proceeding with great care.
January 18, 2024
A proposal to remove William Penn’s statue from a Philadelphia park was pulled after public outcry. Penn’s biographer says his Quaker religion may well have disapproved of such a statue.
January 18, 2024
A year ago, anti-abortion activists from across the U.S. gathered for their annual March for Life with reason to celebrate
January 18, 2024
Missouri activists are throwing support behind a constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights while also allowing the procedure to be restricted in later stages of pregnancy
January 18, 2024
As artificial intelligence's impact on society receives more scrutiny, a Franciscan friar who preaches a message of ethics in technology has gained some powerful listeners
January 18, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris says she's “scared as heck” about the possibility of Donald Trump winning another term
January 17, 2024
Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” takes a heavyweight work of historical and sociological inquiry and transforms it into a deeply humanistic drama and globe-trotting detective story
January 17, 2024
Wisconsin’s powerful Republican Assembly leader says he hopes the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court adopts new constitutional legislative boundary maps, even as he slammed proposals from Democrats as “a political gerrymander” and threatened an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
January 16, 2024
From the ‘static’ polls to Trump’s ‘dissing’ of voters, two political scientists look at the Iowa caucus and see more than just the fact that Trump won it, resoundingly.
January 16, 2024
Too often, signs of trouble are ignored until a problem becomes a crisis. Here are some clear warning signs residents should watch for.
January 16, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris' husband is taking his advocacy against antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate to the Swiss Alps
January 16, 2024
Donald Trump cultivated a deep network of support in Iowa over his three presidential runs and that showed in the leadoff caucuses
January 15, 2024
Communities across the nation have been celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with acts of service, prayer services and parades
January 15, 2024
Monday marks the official start to the Republican presidential nominating contest with the Iowa caucuses
January 14, 2024
The U.S. military isn't immune to the country’s deep political polarization and the service academies are trying to update how they teach future officers to navigate that divide
January 14, 2024
President Joe Biden can make an increasingly strong case that he’s helped fix inflation, if only he can get voters to believe him
January 13, 2024
Iowa's brutal winter weather is making an unrepresentative process even less representative
January 13, 2024
Every morning, before she’s even out of her pajamas, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tears a piece of masking tape off the roll, grabs a pen and writes the number of days her son has been held hostage in Gaza
January 13, 2024
As communities across the U.S. celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday this weekend, some people are taking a cue from the civil rights icon’s history of protest amid the war in Gaza and the looming presidential election
January 13, 2024
The expansive version of free speech long accepted in American society is facing more forceful competition than it has seen in a century
January 13, 2024
President Joe Biden is trying his hand at retail politics
January 12, 2024
Spain forward Jenni Hermoso has led the fight against sexism in Spanish soccer after finding herself in the global spotlight when she was kissed on the lips by former federation president Luis Rubiales without her consent after the Women's World Cup final
January 12, 2024
President Joe Biden says it was a lapse in judgment for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin not to tell him about his hospitalization last week, but he still has confidence in the Pentagon chief
January 12, 2024
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week
January 12, 2024
Biden and Trump are polar opposites when it comes to policy. But they have wielded the power of the presidency in similar ways.
January 12, 2024
A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints says that she also experienced discrimination from district officials
January 12, 2024
Hundreds of people have attended a ceremony honoring the memory of renowned Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who was killed in action while serving as a soldier in the war Russia started in Ukraine nearly two years ago
January 11, 2024
In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar have issued a unified statement refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples
January 11, 2024
Some of the Native Americans the National Park Service was supposed to consult with say moving a statue of Pennsylvania's founder William Penn from a Philadelphia historic site isn't a priority for them
January 11, 2024
Why do so many Americans share the concern that success and integrity are in conflict, as if one comes at the expense of the other?
January 11, 2024
Post-pandemic burnout is at worrying levels among Christian clergy in the U.S. It has prompted many to think about abandoning their jobs
January 11, 2024
Only two Republicans were facing off at the GOP's fifth presidential debate stage — former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
January 11, 2024
A Democratic Florida prosecutor suspended by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis will get another chance to show his political advocacy was protected by the First Amendment and could not be the basis for his removal
January 10, 2024
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. knew the political consequences of speaking out against the Vietnam War − and he did it anyway.
January 10, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis in recent weeks is coming off to many would-be supporters in Iowa as looser and more personable than the strident and sometimes dour presence he was before
January 10, 2024
Just two Republican presidential candidates, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, will meet on the debate stage Wednesday night
January 10, 2024
Ron DeSantis says that nominating Donald Trump would make the 2024 election about his legal troubles rather than the nation’s ills under President Joe Biden
January 10, 2024
The fifth Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election season will also be its first head-to-head matchup
January 09, 2024
Michigan heads into an uncertain future after winning its first national championship in 26 years
January 09, 2024
A man who was targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol insurrection has been sentenced to a year of probation for his role in it and says he never should’ve believed the lies about a stolen election
January 09, 2024
Researchers examined the emotional content of nearly 300 Super Bowl ads that aired from 2018 to 2022.
January 09, 2024
Less hype and more health care, please.
January 09, 2024
Former President Donald Trump says a president “has to have immunity.”
January 09, 2024
As Taiwan’s presidential election approaches, many immigrants from Hong Kong are supporting the governing Democratic Progressive Party after witnessing the alarming erosion of civil liberties at home
January 09, 2024
Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is teaming up with two nonprofits to launch a new fund that will make awards to champions of sexual violence prevention and that will support education and healing programs, predominantly for Black women and girls, with plans to raise $10 million over the next two years
January 08, 2024
The former president has raised several legal arguments that do not yet have clear answers. A constitutional scholar says they’re questions worth asking.
January 08, 2024
The European Union’s top official for migration says member states will have to confront tough policy challenges to cope with the continent’s aging population
January 08, 2024
At a Black church, President Joe Biden says white supremacy is a “poison” and has no place in America
January 08, 2024
Pope Francis is calling for a universal ban on what he calls the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood
January 08, 2024
India’s top court has restored life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago
January 08, 2024
Reaction among Catholics around the world is sharply divided over the Vatican's recent declaration giving priests more leeway to bless same-sex couples
January 07, 2024
The US Supreme Court faces a case with huge repercussions for the 2024 presidential election – and American democracy. An election law scholar explains why.
January 06, 2024
The rivalry between GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley has become a leading storyline before the leadoff Iowa caucuses on Jan. 15
January 06, 2024
The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, while a legal fight continues
January 05, 2024
Social media allows a political leader to direct the behavior of political movements, including engaging in violence and insurrection.
January 05, 2024
As the nation approaches the 70-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, an education professor lays out the state of school segregation in America.
January 05, 2024
A legal scholar argues that assigning a designated contrarian and rotating this role over time will help nonprofit boards resist the dangerous pull toward passivity and deference.
January 05, 2024
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter says the world urgently needs to study and adopt her father’s philosophy of nonviolence to avoid self-destruction
January 04, 2024
A Connecticut woman who pushed for expanded access to Vermont’s law that allows people who are terminally ill to end their lives has died in Vermont
January 04, 2024
What might appear to be common values about shared political and cultural identities can at times serve not as a bridge joining people together but a wedge driving them apart.
January 04, 2024
The race for the White House officially begins in less than two weeks
January 04, 2024
Pundits are everywhere, giving their analyses of current events, politics and the state of the world. You’ll hear a lot more from them this election year. Is their rank opinion good for democracy?
January 04, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how fragmented medical care can be. Relational, or person-centered, medicine is attempting to provide solutions.
January 04, 2024
A law scholar examines a pair of Supreme Court cases that pit the public’s free speech rights against politicians’ rights.
January 04, 2024
A Department of Education policy adviser has resigned to protest the administration’s military support of Israel’s war in Gaza, as well as its handling of fallout from the war at home and abroad
January 03, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is criticizing House Republicans on the campaign trail, lamenting to a crowd in southwestern Iowa that he has “not noticed much of a difference” since they edged into the majority after the 2022 midterm elections
January 03, 2024
Most of us struggle with making those New Year’s resolutions stick
January 03, 2024
Accusations of plagiarism have ruined the careers of academics and undergraduates alike
January 03, 2024
An appeals court says Michael Cohen can't hold ex-president Donald Trump, his former boss, liable because he was jailed for what he claimed was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir
January 02, 2024
Israel’s highest court has struck down the government’s law limiting its power. Three scholars look at why the law was proposed, what it aimed to do and who supported – and opposed – it.
January 02, 2024
Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy
January 02, 2024
The Dominican Republic is one of four Latin American countries criminalizing abortion without exceptions
January 02, 2024
In this time of war overseas, more Americans think foreign policy should be a top U.S. priority for 2024
January 01, 2024
Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having “dark conversations” about harming himself before he hit “the emergency brake” and sought treatment for depression
December 31, 2023
Over the past three years, the world’s oldest democracy has been tested in ways not seen in decades
December 31, 2023
The New Year is almost upon us
December 30, 2023
The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to Dec. 31, 1862, during the Civil War
December 30, 2023
Activists who engage with voters of color are finding lackluster enthusiasm after disappointments on some issues such as voting rights and student loan forgiveness during President Joe Biden's term
December 30, 2023
For Texas receiver Adonai Mitchell, there’s no mystery surrounding the College Football Playoff
December 29, 2023
African scientists warn that discrimination against gay and bisexual men on the continent could make an mpox outbreak in Congo worse
December 28, 2023
Donald Trump is facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U_S_ illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country."
December 27, 2023
Experts are warning that the spread of misinformation could get worse in the coming presidential election contest
December 26, 2023
Christmas is over, but giving season for nonprofits is just starting to peak
December 26, 2023
More than 50 French performers, writers and producers published an essay Tuesday defending film star and national icon Gerard Depardieu amid growing scrutiny of his behavior toward women
December 26, 2023
Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat
December 26, 2023
Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat
December 26, 2023
Liverpool soccer star Mohamed Salah says he “shares the pain” of grieving families at Christmas amid the Israel-Hamas war
December 25, 2023
Pope Francis is denouncing the weapons industry in his Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in particular between Israel and the Palestinians
December 25, 2023
King Charles III has reflected his coronation theme of public service y in a Christmas message that he connected to the health of the planet and wars that are raging
December 25, 2023
Independent candidates rarely succeed in U.S. politics, if they can make the ballot at all
December 25, 2023
Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the world."
December 24, 2023
Donald Trump's lawyers are telling a federal appeals court that he was acting within his role as president when he pressed claims about “alleged fraud and irregularity” in the 2020 election
December 24, 2023
A Nevada tribe is gearing up for a different kind of fight against the U.S. government as it tries to build more public support for protecting Native American sacred sites
December 24, 2023
The Vatican next year will publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI
December 23, 2023
President Joe Biden joined first lady Jill Biden, for a Christmas season visit to Children’s National Hospital in Washington to meet with patients and their families
December 22, 2023
Former President Donald Trump says he is eager to debate President Joe Biden, even if the debates are sponsored by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates
December 22, 2023
Some Catholic bishops say they will not follow the Vatican’s new direction on allowing blessings for same-sex couples
December 22, 2023
An influential policing think tank is pushing law enforcement agencies to change how they handle body camera footage after police shootings
December 22, 2023
This Congress started with showy bluster, a bitter 15-round, multi-day spectacle to elect a House speaker who vowed to “never quit,” and then did just that
December 22, 2023
Attorneys for a woman who was denied emergency contraception in 2019 told the Minnesota Court of Appeals the pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription discriminated against her on the basis of her sex
December 22, 2023
The Supreme Court is being thrust into the middle of two cases carrying enormous political and legal implications just weeks before the first votes in in the Iowa caucuses
December 21, 2023
Women’s rights activists are criticizing French President Emmanuel Macron for appearing to side with actor Gérard Depardieu by saying the film star who is facing sexual misconduct allegations “makes France proud.”
December 21, 2023
Life is full of hidden bottlenecks that result from logistical trade-offs between efficiency and your unique needs and desires. AI promises to change this taken-for-granted equation.
December 21, 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron says the giant opening ceremony extravaganza that Paris is planning to hold on the River Seine to launch next year’s Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks
December 21, 2023
Pope Francis has urged Vatican bureaucrats to avoid “rigid ideological positions” that prevent them from understanding today’s reality
December 21, 2023
Dozens of opposition lawmakers suspended from Parliament by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for obstructing proceedings have held a protest accusing the government of throttling democracy in the country
December 21, 2023
A romance that united sports and music fans, a celestial wonder that drew millions of eyes skyward and a spiritual homecoming for some Native American tribes were just some of the moments that inspired us and brought joy in 2023
December 21, 2023
Hundreds of migrants and other people have turned out for a vigil held for a 5-year-old migrant boy who died after becoming ill in a Chicago shelter
December 21, 2023
A historian and legal scholar of a key part of the US Constitution explains what happens now that the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled Trump cannot be on the state’s presidential ballots.
December 21, 2023
A federal judge will consider arguments over racial discrimination, public safety and local democracy as he decides whether to block appointments to a state-run court set to be created on Jan. 1 in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city
December 20, 2023
An Ohio prosecutor says it's not within his power to drop a criminal charge against a woman who miscarried at her home, regardless of the pressure that national attention is bringing to her case
December 20, 2023
President Joe Biden says it's “self-evident" that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist but demurs on whether he should be barred from the ballot in next year's election
December 20, 2023
Former President Donald Trump's bid to win back the White House is now endangered by two sentences added to the U.S. Constitution 155 years ago
December 20, 2023
Threats from disappointed donors over the language used during campus protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict have become angrier and more public than in the past.
December 20, 2023
The UN climate conference brought some progress. A former UN official who has been involved in international climate policy for years explains what has to happen now for that progress to pay off.
December 20, 2023
The Constitution makes clear that a president who was impeached and convicted can still be prosecuted − but what about one who is acquitted in two impeachment trials?
December 20, 2023
It's clear when states ban abortion
December 20, 2023
How far can a state go to keep migrants out of the U.S.
December 20, 2023
Former President Donald Trump is defending his comments about migrants crossing the southern border, who he had said are poisoning the blood of America
December 20, 2023
A divided Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, saying in a historic ruling that he is ineligible to be president after his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol
December 19, 2023
St. Louis political leaders and people connected to a shuttered nursing home are calling for accountability after the facility's sudden, unannounced closure
December 19, 2023
Kentucky's governor says Republican Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant language is dangerous and dehumanizing
December 19, 2023
There are lots of ideas about how to save local news. One of them is that increasing coverage of local politics will bring back readers and viewers. Research shows that it doesn’t.
December 19, 2023
Serbia’s ruling populists are insisting that weekend snap elections were free and fair, but international observers have noted multiple irregularities
December 19, 2023
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery
December 18, 2023
Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson
December 18, 2023
A collaboration between The Associated Press and CNHI News has found it’s getting harder for the public to access information at the local government level in many states, including among school districts, townships and county boards
December 18, 2023
North Dakota would become the first state to require hand-counting of all election ballots if voters back a proposed ballot measure
December 17, 2023
A growing number of Black Americans see the struggle of Palestinians reflected in their own struggles for racial equality and civil rights
December 17, 2023
A Confederate memorial's days at Arlington National Cemetery are numbered
December 16, 2023
In Mexico, activists from Catholics for the Right to Decide are helping women reconcile their faith and abortion rights
December 16, 2023
Suburbs in South Florida that have swung toward Donald Trump are where the “Obamacare” health care program is more popular than anywhere else in the country
December 16, 2023
So much for the women-and-children-first rule of rescues in crisis
December 16, 2023
The U.S. ambassador to China says the relationship between the two countries will be defined by strategic competition in the coming decades but most involve engagement when interests align
December 15, 2023
Social media is designed to keep you engaged by getting a rise out of you, not help you think critically or take effective action on political issues.
December 15, 2023
Bill Maher has had a few second thoughts, or at least some variations on the first ones
December 15, 2023
In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential contest will affect its future
December 15, 2023
College basketball programs with athletes who have transferred two or more times previously are consulting their legal teams about whether to let them play
December 14, 2023
Abortion clinics in Ohio are pushing for a court to strike down abortion restrictions now that voters have enshrined abortion rights into the state Constitution
December 14, 2023
Lawyers for the city of Atlanta are asking an appeals court to overturn a ruling that let nonresidents collect signatures in the “Stop Cop City” effort to force a referendum on a police and fire training center
December 14, 2023
The Supreme Court has declined to put on hold a new Illinois law that would ban high-power semiautomatic weapons like the one used in the mass killing of seven people at a 2022 parade in a Chicago suburb
December 14, 2023
Faith and education leaders are denouncing plans for an After School Satan Club at a Tennessee elementary school
December 14, 2023
A scholar of the Islamic State group says Hamas has undergone a radical ISIS-inspired transformation that has not yet gotten widespread public attention.
December 14, 2023
Though progressive politics at the turn of the 20th century called for the protection of America’s national parks, it did so for the enjoyment of white people.
December 14, 2023
Pope Francis is calling for an international treaty to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically
December 14, 2023
A U.N. report says Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence
December 14, 2023
A federal judge says she will decide by Friday whether to temporarily halt the impending reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado under a voter-approved initiative
December 14, 2023
Relatively few Americans are excited about a potential rematch of the 2020 election between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump
December 14, 2023
Attorneys for both sides in a challenge to Wyoming abortion restrictions that include the nation’s first explicit ban on medication to end pregnancy have urged a judge to uphold or strike down the new laws without holding a trial
December 14, 2023
A weeklong sit-in at Haverford College has ended under threat of disciplinary action as U.S. college campuses continue to be roiled by tensions over the Israel-Hamas war
December 13, 2023
A Florida mother tearfully testified that her family could be torn apart if the state's ban on trans health care for children is allowed to take effect
December 13, 2023
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have called for “compassion” in the case of a woman whose health deteriorated as she unsuccessfully sought an abortion in Texas, but they stopped short of criticizing the state’s law
December 13, 2023
An independent review of Starbucks' labor relations concluded that Starbucks should better communicate its commitment to workers’ collective bargaining rights and train its employees to respect those rights
December 13, 2023
Shoplifting has been hyped as a driver of chain-store closures, but did these companies ever really understand urban environments in the first place?
December 13, 2023
A wartime opinion poll among Palestinians shows a rise in support for Hamas, which appears to have ticked up even in the devastated Gaza Strip
December 13, 2023
Regulations are a double-edged sword
December 13, 2023
The New Mexico Supreme Court is weighing whether to strike down local abortion bans and restrictions by conservative cities and counties at the request of the state attorney general
December 13, 2023
President Joe Biden's pledge to restore American credibility around the globe is at risk during the congressional debate over support for Ukraine
December 13, 2023
About 7 in 10 Asian American and Pacific Islanders in the United States believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and only about 1 in 10 believe democracy is working extremely or very well
December 13, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says Donald Trump “flip-flipped” on abortion, overreached in response to COVID-19 and failed to uphold his campaign pledge to get Mexico to pay for a wall on the southern U.S. border
December 13, 2023
Over five hours at a congressional hearing, lawmakers pressed the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT on the topic of antisemitism
December 12, 2023
Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents
December 12, 2023
Israel’s decision to mobilize hundreds of thousands of reserve soldiers was not just an act of self-defense, a scholar writes, but a political move as well.
December 12, 2023
Presents are about giving, receiving and reciprocating, and how this cycle strengthens relationships.
December 12, 2023
Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis are asking a federal judge to dismiss a free speech lawsuit filed by Disney after the Florida governor took over Walt Disney World’s governing district in retaliation for the company opposing the state’s so-called don’t say gay law
December 12, 2023
Starting well before dawn Sunday, hundreds gathered on the grounds of St. Ann Mission in the Florida farmland to bring flowers, candles and petitions to Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 12, 2023
Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism
December 12, 2023
A Black man who was shocked, beaten and hogtied face down on a sidewalk pleaded for breath during his arrest in Washington state and the three police officers charged in his death did not respond to his pleas, a prosecutor told the jury in closing arguments Monday
December 12, 2023
University codes of conduct support their mission to educate. But it’s not easy to balance those codes with the values of free speech, as the resignation of a prominent university president shows.
December 11, 2023
The Supreme Court has refused to take up a case about whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children
December 11, 2023
Giving a pet as a surprise gift at the holidays isn’t generally recommended
December 11, 2023
Leaving out the history of Napoléon’s brutal subjugation of Haiti is akin to making a movie about Hitler without mentioning the Holocaust.
December 11, 2023
President Joe Biden goes into next year’s election with a vexing challenge: Just as the U.S. economy is getting stronger, people are still feeling horrible about it
December 11, 2023
Jonathan Glazer’s chilling Auschwitz-set drama, “The Zone of Interest,” has been named best movie of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
December 11, 2023
Students, lawmakers and religious leaders have joined forces at a temple in Philadelphia to strongly denounce antisemitism on college campuses and in their communities
December 10, 2023
For President Joe Biden, a centerpiece of his reelection campaign is trying to negatively define Donald Trump in the public's eye
December 10, 2023
President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping grip on Russia’s political scene to extend his tenure of over two decades in power
December 10, 2023
Rights groups say Beijing’s crackdown on dissent is becoming increasingly harsh, both within China and beyond
December 10, 2023
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver seemed more than satisfied by the way the inaugural In-Season Tournament went this season, though noted that it’s only natural to expect some tweaks to the format before next year
December 10, 2023
University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy
December 09, 2023
The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis
December 09, 2023
Many women, young people and Indigenous voices say they feel they’re relegated to mere attendance, with limited opportunities to contribute substantially to the decisive meetings, despite promises to make the talks more inclusive
December 09, 2023
A trio of Republican presidential candidates shared stories of family and faith before hundreds of voters in northwest Iowa
December 09, 2023
The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis
December 09, 2023
This year’s Heisman Trophy ceremony is an ode to the new era of college sports, transformed by the transfer portal and NIL
December 08, 2023
LGBTQ+ activists in Minnesota want prosecutors to treat the killing of a trans woman in Minneapolis as a hate crime, and they want lawmakers to strengthen legal safeguards to protect a community that’s disproportionately the target of violence
December 08, 2023
Obstacles to obtaining an abortion are more common since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022
December 08, 2023
NCAA President Charlie Baker’s call for sweeping changes in compensating athletes comes with the organization facing a series of high-profile lawsuits
December 08, 2023
Massachusetts’ attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, saying it repeatedly subjected LGBTQ+ events and facilities sheltering migrant families to intimidation and harassment
December 08, 2023
Kevin McCarthy, the only speaker of the House to be ousted, has quit Congress. The ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as Shakespeare, understood the price of ambition like McCarthy’s: humiliation.
December 08, 2023
Harvard University’s president apologized as pressure mounted for the University of Pennsylvania’s president to resign over their testimony at a congressional hearing on antisemitism
December 08, 2023
It’s important to identify the root causes of your stress and to find the coping mechanisms that work best for you.
December 08, 2023
Do you dread delivering or receiving feedback at work? Two organizational behavior experts describe a better way to have these difficult conversations.
December 08, 2023
Prince Harry lost a preliminary round in his libel case against against the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid over an article that said he tried to hide his efforts to retain publicly funded protection in the U.K. after walking away from his role as a working member of the royal family
December 08, 2023
A federal judge is prohibiting the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years
December 08, 2023
The U.S. Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates don't like where things are heading
December 08, 2023
Donald Trump's assertion that he would only be a dictator on “day one” of a second term comes as he is facing growing scrutiny over his increasingly authoritarian and violent rhetoric
December 08, 2023
Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, says American Jews are “feeling alone” and “in pain” as he denounces rising antisemitism in the U.S. and abroad, particularly amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
December 07, 2023
Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to exchange prisoners of war and work toward signing a peace treaty in what the European Union is hailing as a major step toward peace in the long-troubled region
December 07, 2023
Ivy League presidents are facing backlash over their remarks to on-campus antisemitism
December 07, 2023
The United States strongly supports Israel in its war against Hamas, but is increasingly at odds with its Middle East ally over what will happen to the Gaza Strip once the war winds down
December 07, 2023
Recent media coverage mostly confirms the role of faulty threat assessments, Hamas’ improved operational security, and confirmation bias.
December 07, 2023
By disguising her name, Alcott could publish in less prestigious venues without worrying about tarnishing her literary reputation.
December 07, 2023
Disinformation campaigns often use a set of rhetorical devices that you can learn to spot, like conspiracy narratives, good versus evil framing, and revealed secrets.
December 07, 2023
It’s down to two candidates in the race to lead the nation’s fourth-largest city
December 07, 2023
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow says she still feels under the watch of the Chinese territory’s police after moving to Toronto
December 07, 2023
A Texas judge has given a pregnant woman whose fetus had a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to the state’s ban that took effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned last year
December 07, 2023
A day after NCAA President Charlie Baker made an aggressive and potentially groundbreaking pitch to allow some schools to pay their athletes, his proposal was met with praise, caution and questions from around college sports
December 06, 2023
It’s hard to overestimate the role Henry Kissinger played in Chile. A former Chilean diplomat describes the mark that the powerful statesman made in his country and elsewhere in the Global South.
December 06, 2023
An intellectually humble person may have strong commitments to various beliefs − but balanced with an openness to the likelihood that others, too, may have valuable insights, ideas and evidence.
December 06, 2023
The author of a new book on affirmative action in higher education discusses how colleges might still be able to become more diverse now that affirmative action has been banned.
December 06, 2023
Preparing for Hanukkah feels uniquely somber yet defiant this year for the Jewish communities in and around Miami Beach
December 06, 2023
The College Board has released an updated framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course, which officially launches next academic year
December 06, 2023
President Joe Biden told Native American nations gathered for a summit Wednesday that his administration was working to heal the wrongs of the past
December 06, 2023
President Joe Biden is pushing for the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to be able to play under its own flag when the sport returns to the Olympics in 2028
December 06, 2023
Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted demonstrably to the right
December 06, 2023
A rights group says the Taliban’s education policies are harming boys as well as girls in Afghanistan
December 06, 2023
A Donald Trump ally who worked in his Justice Department says that if the former president is elected again, his administration will retaliate against people in the media “criminally or civilly.”
December 05, 2023
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says the world needs to recognize and confront the Taliban's “gender apartheid” against women and girls in Afghanistan
December 05, 2023
The lawyer selected to be the Army’s first top prosecutor of sexual assaults under an overhaul of the military justice system has been fired because of an email he sent 10 years ago appearing to belittle victims’ assault allegations
December 05, 2023
A new survey shows 55% of Black patients said they feel like they must be very careful about their appearance to be treated fairly at medical visits
December 05, 2023
A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis is asking a court to let her have an abortion
December 05, 2023
The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they are taking steps to combat antisemitism — and Islamophobia — on campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas war
December 05, 2023
The Senate in a single stroke has approved about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy
December 05, 2023
The major philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, said Tuesday it will commit $50 million to increase civic engagement among women and youth over the next three years as part of its strategy to support democracy in the U.S. Alex Soros, chair of the Open Society Foundations and son of its founder billionaire investor George Soros, said in a statement that the advocacy of women and young people is essential to stopping the advancement of authoritarianism
December 05, 2023
How many years you reuse a fake holiday tree matters. So does what happens to a live tree when you’ve packed up the ornaments.
December 05, 2023
Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
December 05, 2023
Decades ago, the international community codified science as a cultural right and protected expression of human creativity. Reaffirming science’s value can help it better serve humanity.
December 05, 2023
Family members of three Black people who were killed this summer at a Dollar General store by a shooter who had posted racist writings have filed a lawsuit
December 04, 2023
Gov. Josh Shapiro is labeling a demonstration outside of an Israeli-owned restaurant “antisemitic” after protesters marched against the bombardment of Gaza
December 04, 2023
Former Vice President Al Gore says don’t trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution and he adds that the man running United Nations climate talks runs one of the dirtiest oil companies out there
December 04, 2023
The imposition of fines and fees on people unable to pay has had a disproportionate impact on Black and Latino communities.
December 04, 2023
Hate is for the haters. Much of the thrill of posting toxic messages can come from the attention and social approval a poster gets from like-minded people.
December 04, 2023
Teachers are voicing skepticism about a Maine proposal to update science education standards to incorporate teaching about genocide, eugenics and the Holocaust
December 04, 2023
The Israel-Hamas war and its polarizing reverberations in America are straining some Muslim-Jewish interfaith relationships in the U.S. more than ever
December 03, 2023
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is denouncing those advocate what he says is “an American retreat from responsibility.”
December 02, 2023
Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D
December 02, 2023
Henry Kissinger's legacy in the Mideast is the pursuit of what's possible, not necessarily peace, in one of the world's most intractable conflicts
December 02, 2023
An appeals court has paused enforcement of a federal government regulation that allows abortion providers to receive family planning grants — but only in Ohio
December 01, 2023
A West Virginia coalition that helps support a network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the state is receiving $1 million to distribute to organizations committed to encouraging people not to end their pregnancies
December 01, 2023
Sandra Day O’Connor's influence could best be seen in the Supreme Court's court’s rulings on abortion
December 01, 2023
A scholar of political deception says there is something especially deceitful about George Santos, and his success getting elected demonstrates mastery of something more than just pathological lying.
December 01, 2023
The American legal system has never faced greater challenges or demands for reform from people of all races and across the political spectrum
December 01, 2023
Native American families have endured generations of systematic child removal, but the grief, loss and trauma that birth mothers still experience have been largely overlooked.
December 01, 2023
The original storyline for Road Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” contained some stunning parallels to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
December 01, 2023
Henry Kissinger is being remembered positively in China as an envoy who was willing to overlook ideological differences at the height of the Cold War and long after
December 01, 2023
An annual report on capital punishment says more Americans now believe the death penalty is administered unfairly
December 01, 2023
The Republican National Committee’s rules for next year’s nominating contest and convention have been released, but a major question is unaddressed: Can delegates vote for a different candidate if the party’s presumptive nominee is convicted of a felony
November 30, 2023
Putin’s worldview echoes Russian phrase, ‘Who is not with us, is against us.’
November 30, 2023
In an alternate reality, the prime-time showdown between California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis could have been a preview of a 2024 general election debate
November 30, 2023
Until the bitter end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few in the tight circle of a distrusting President Richard Nixon
November 30, 2023
The death on Wednesday of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has drawn admiration and scorn from political leaders around the world, highlighting the complicated legacy of Kissinger’s views about what it meant to serve America’s interests during the Cold War — and how the country should exert its influence
November 30, 2023
A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.
November 30, 2023
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that antisemitism in the United States has reached levels unseen in generations and called on his fellow Democrats to clearly condemn it
November 29, 2023
Congregants of an Anglican church in a sparsely populated rainforest village in Guyana are asking for peace for their community amid what they see as an existential threat
November 29, 2023
It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS
November 29, 2023
The gentle parenting movement has exploded in popularity on social media. But is it good for kids or parents?
November 29, 2023
The question of whether local declarations offering sanctuary for LGBTQIA+ people place local law above federal law depends on what the statements actually promise.
November 29, 2023
A historian of the Middle East examines the decades-old ‘special relationship’ between Israel and the US.
November 29, 2023
Black survivors have been nearly invisible in the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis — even in Baltimore, home to a historic Black Catholic community
November 29, 2023
Black survivors have been nearly invisible in the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis — even in Baltimore, home to a historic Black Catholic community
November 29, 2023
In Colorado, President Joe Biden has said Rep_ Lauren Boebert was wrong to describe his policies as “a massive failure."
November 29, 2023
By now, Americans should be well aware that the process of electing a president isn’t like electing a senator or governor
November 29, 2023
Pope Francis has decided to take measures to punish Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is one of his highest-ranking critics
November 28, 2023
A survey about college writing instructors’ fears and anxieties about AI demonstrates that student cheating isn’t their only concern. And in fact, many have embraced it as a teaching tool.
November 28, 2023
Innovations in AI seem to be spurring interest in what is or isn’t real, accurate and human.
November 28, 2023
Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most
November 28, 2023
Nikki Haley says former President Donald Trump causes too much chaos to be successful in a second White House term
November 27, 2023
Mayors, governors and others have been forceful advocates for newly arrived migrants seeking shelter and work permits
November 27, 2023
What motivates people to donate to charities or causes they care about is often deeply personal
November 27, 2023
Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”
November 27, 2023
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh is ready to put his money where his mouth is if it means college football players and other athletes would be paid
November 26, 2023
Rep. George Santos says he expected to be expelled from Congress following a scathing report by the House Ethics Committee that found substantial evidence of lawbreaking by the New York Republican
November 25, 2023
Florida Gulf Coast's women's basketball team this season has 16 players on the roster and they're all listed as having the same position
November 25, 2023
The Seattle Seahawks are broken offensively in a way that could not have been anticipated back during training camp in the summer or even a couple of months ago
November 24, 2023
Activists wearing masks depicting President Emmanuel Macron have urged France to change its position and endorse a law proposed by the European Union that would define rape as sex without consent in the bloc’s 27 countries
November 24, 2023
Right-wing populist Javier Milei has been president-elect just four days and already Argentina’s unions and social organizations are vowing pushback and even protests if he makes good on his promises to slash the size of the state and privatize companies
November 23, 2023
He’s been called the Dutch Donald Trump
November 23, 2023
Animal welfare advocates are suing to stop Wisconsin's new wolf management plan
November 23, 2023
Lawyers for a once-powerful cardinal have accused Vatican prosecutors of being “prisoners to their completely shattered theory" in closing arguments of a trial that has raised fundamental questions about the rule of law in the city state
November 22, 2023
Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and “Scream” star Melissa Barrera were each dropped by Hollywood companies after making comments on the Israel-Hamas war that some deemed antisemitic
November 22, 2023
Country singer Jason Aldean’s hit song triggered renewed attention on vigilante justice, racism and urban America.
November 22, 2023
When it comes to gentrification, Philadelphia baristas say they’re ‘part of the problem.’ But as low-wage workers, where else should they live and work?
November 22, 2023
Britain’s Conservative government has sought to regain the political initiative with a series of tax cuts for businesses and individuals that it hopes will boost its chances in a national election next year that opinion polls suggest it will lose
November 22, 2023
Close to half of the U.S. public thinks the country is spending too much on aid to Ukraine
November 22, 2023
The founder of a far-right, unofficial Catholic media group has resigned for an unspecified violation of the organization’s morality clause, the group said in a statement
November 21, 2023
The explosion of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and fears about where the technology might be headed distract from the many ways AI affects people every day – for better and worse.
November 21, 2023
An Oregon judge has ruled that a voter-approved gun control law violates the state constitution
November 21, 2023
The ruling could make it impossible for groups like the ACLU to file lawsuits to protect people’s right to vote – significantly changing how the Voting Rights Act has been interpreted so far.
November 21, 2023
Donald Trump has long praised a particular type of foreign leader — men he describes as tough and strong, even if they're accused of chipping away at democracy
November 21, 2023
Rosalynn Carter used her powerful posts to address injustices as her husband rose in politics, especially those imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia
November 21, 2023
Thanksgiving may be a time for Americans to come together, but opinion is divided over what’s on the crowded dinner table
November 21, 2023
Giving thanks isn't just a holiday tradition
November 21, 2023
The 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination finds his family, and the country, at a moment many would not have imagined in JFK's lifetime
November 21, 2023
Rosalynn Carter's advocacy for mental health started during her husband's 1966 campaign for governor, when she spoke almost daily with Georgia families struggling to get help for their loved ones
November 21, 2023
The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma known for rejecting the idea of hell and supporting gay rights has died
November 20, 2023
While most Mexican politicians refrain from clarifying where they stand on religion, abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, former telenovela actor and right-wing activist Eduardo Verástegui prays on TikTok and claims that getting closer to God changed the course of his life
November 20, 2023
To be homeless is a condition in which a person’s freedom is profoundly compromised. And that’s un-American, says a philosopher.
November 20, 2023
A federal appeals court appears inclined to reimpose at least some restrictions on Donald Trump’s speech in his election subversion case
November 20, 2023
Reactions are pouring in to the death of Rosalynn Carter
November 19, 2023
Notable quotes from former first lady Rosalynn Carter
November 19, 2023
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk’s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory
November 19, 2023
The statewide battles over abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line across the country
November 19, 2023
President Joe Biden ends nearly every speech by saying he’s “never been more optimistic” about the country’s direction
November 19, 2023
After the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that turned a drag queen’s birthday celebration into a massacre, the conservative community was forced to reckon with its reputation for being unwelcoming to gay, lesbian and transgender people
November 19, 2023
Experts on extremism fear that the threat of politically motivated violence will intensify as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up
November 18, 2023
Both jeers and cheers for Argentina’s right-wing presidential candidate resounded with acoustic perfection inside the country’s legendary Colón Theater, laying bare the country’s polarization
November 18, 2023
A federal judge has ruled that North Dakota’s 2021 legislative redistricting plan violates the rights of two Native American tribes because it dilutes their voting strength
November 17, 2023
It’s good to talk − just don’t expect it to result in a reset in relations between Beijing and Washington.
November 17, 2023
As Argentina heads for a presidential runoff election on Sunday, the decades-old populist movement known as Peronism is on shaky ground
November 17, 2023
As the Israel-Hamas war rages in Gaza, there’s a bitter battle for public opinion flaring in the U.S., with angry rallies on many college campuses and disruptive protests at prominent venues in several major cities
November 16, 2023
When you view photos and video through the fog of war, first ask yourself: Do I really know what I’m looking at?
November 16, 2023
The slogan has been attacked as ‘antisemitic’ and defended as a ‘call for freedom.’ Behind the controversy is decades of usage.
November 16, 2023
Lawyers for a group of religious leaders who support abortion rights said during a hearing that Missouri lawmakers intended to “impose their religious beliefs on everyone" in the state when they passed a restrictive abortion ban
November 16, 2023
Justin Torres’ “Blackouts” has won the National Book Award for fiction
November 16, 2023
West Virginia Sen_ Joe Manchin says if U_S_ voters give former President Donald Trump another term in the White House, “he will destroy democracy in America.”
November 15, 2023
U.S. bishops inside a Baltimore hotel approved materials on how Catholics should vote in 2024 elections
November 15, 2023
Nikki Haley says anonymity online poses a “national security threat.”
November 15, 2023
Advocates scrambling to find shelter for homeless migrant families newly arrived in Massachusetts say families are relying on a patchwork of airport lounges, Uber rides, hospital waiting rooms and walk-in church shelters after the state capped the number of family shelter spots and created a wait list
November 15, 2023
Nearly nine out of 10 parents believe their child is performing at grade level despite standardized tests showing far fewer students are on track
November 15, 2023
Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh says he’s spoken to his brother, Jim, quite a bit, and he’s proud of how the Michigan coach has handled the sign-stealing scandal that put the program under investigation
November 14, 2023
Does Paris have too many SUVs
November 14, 2023
Scholars writing for The Conversation take a deeper look at some of the issues expected to be on the agenda when the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies meet.
November 14, 2023
The opt-out movement caught on heavily in Colorado in the late 2010s. A group of education scholars is exploring the reasons why.
November 14, 2023
Red flag laws are an important step in the right direction, but much more work is needed to determine the role of mental health in the lead-up to and aftermath of mass shootings.
November 14, 2023
Hawkish foreign policy wonks have called for a breakup of Russia. But would that fall into Beijing’s hands?
November 14, 2023
Despite ongoing efforts to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity in the last year
November 14, 2023
Jill Biden has paid tribute to the power of poetry while honoring the 2023 class of National Student Poets
November 13, 2023
The College Football Playoff is on the verge of major changes, including expansion, its next media rights deal and possibly evolving its role as an organizing body in college sports
November 13, 2023
Marianne Williamson has kept barnstorming for months across America in a demanding schedule of appearances and speeches in her second tenacious run for the presidency
November 12, 2023
Donald Trump is pushing for his federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised
November 11, 2023
People around the globe are remembering the slaughter and losses from four years of fighting during World War I just over a century ago that was supposed to amount to “the war to end all wars.”
November 11, 2023
Government agencies and nonprofits around the country have long been working to reduce the numbers of homeless veterans
November 11, 2023
The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement
November 11, 2023
Environmental activist Jill Stein is launching another long-shot Green Party bid for the presidency
November 10, 2023
Undisputed world lightweight champion Katie Taylor has questioned whether women’s boxing has the “strength and depth” to move to three-minute rounds
November 10, 2023
The new constitutional amendment to protect the right to abortion in Ohio − as well as other wins for Democrats − shows the importance of ballot initiatives and focusing on abortion in elections.
November 09, 2023
New York is requiring state health officials to develop an outreach program to educate the public on the harmful impacts of medically unnecessary treatments performed on young children born intersex
November 09, 2023
An expert on the laws of war argues that the burden is now on Israel to show that the heavy death toll in Gaza is proportionate to the military advantage gained.
November 09, 2023
A judge in Michigan has heard arguments Thursday on whether Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has the authority to keep Donald Trump’s name off state ballots for president
November 09, 2023
Charlotte Knobloch was 6 years old when she saw the synagogues of Munich burning and watched helplessly as two Nazi officers marched away a beloved friend of her father who was beaten up and bleeding on the forehead
November 09, 2023
Nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict
November 09, 2023
In the United States, the national conference of Catholic bishops rejects the concept of gender transition, leaving many transgender Catholics feeling excluded
November 08, 2023
An Arizona Superior Court judge has dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruling that church officials who knew that a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse to police or social service agencies because the information was received during a spiritual confession
November 08, 2023
The Nashville district attorney is calling on the Tennessee legislature to make it easier to commit someone to a mental institution
November 08, 2023
Voters have thrown their support behind abortion rights in races in Ohio, Virginia and elsewhere
November 08, 2023
A judge at Britain’s High Court has ruled that life support for a terminally ill 8-month-old baby should be withdrawn at a hospice or hospital
November 08, 2023
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has expressed disappointment with election results that allowed Democrats to take control of both the Virginia House and Senate, but pledged to work with the party's new legislative majority on bipartisan priorities
November 08, 2023
A common criticism of women’s sports is that female players aren’t as entertaining or skilled as their male counterparts. Two researchers decided to put this notion to the test.
November 08, 2023
The US attorney for the District of Maryland recently released a PSA to help stem the tide of violence in the state. But will it work?
November 08, 2023
Democrats have plenty of good news to celebrate from Tuesday’s elections and there's more evidence they can win races centered on the national debate over abortion
November 08, 2023
The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to uphold health care guidance issued last year that says hospitals must provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy
November 07, 2023
The Biden administration is warning U.S. schools and colleges that they must take immediate action to stop antisemitism and Islamophobia on their campuses, citing an “alarming rise” in threats and harassment
November 07, 2023
People talk about genocide in a few different ways, ranging from technical to colloquial – but a war of words does not replace a path to peace, a genocide scholar writes.
November 07, 2023
Political scientists have begun to investigate ways AI can help people understand politics better and get more voices into the public sphere.
November 07, 2023
A video posted by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan has caused widespread criticism, with some saying it's offensive to the Jewish community
November 06, 2023
A new poll finds public opinions in 24 countries growing more favorable of the United States than of China
November 06, 2023
Many years beyond the average American retirement age, politicians vie for power and influence. Their constituents tend to prefer they step back and pass the torch to younger people.
November 06, 2023
An analysis of anti-abortion rights groups in the US shows that while some specifically turn to Christianity to explain their positions, others are looking at broader, human rights arguments.
November 06, 2023
Global warming plus leverage equals a big mess for companies.
November 06, 2023
Pope Francis has met with European rabbis and decried antisemitism, war and terrorism in a written speech
November 06, 2023
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge to a 1994 law prohibiting people facing domestic violence restraining orders from having guns
November 06, 2023
Mississippi's long history of voter suppression has created widespread voter fatigue among Black residents in a state where they account for nearly 40% of the population
November 05, 2023
Over the past three years, local school board elections have become the place where America’s deep political divisions are on full display
November 05, 2023
Survivors of government-backed Native American boarding schools and their descendants have shared their experiences as U.S. officials made a final stop in Montana on their yearlong tour to confront the institutions that regularly abused students to assimilate them into white society
November 05, 2023
Most members of Congress have stood firmly behind Israel since the Hamas attack, but not Cori Bush
November 04, 2023
New House Speaker Mike Johnson is showing what hardball partisan tactics might come next
November 03, 2023
One person’s content moderation is another’s censorship when it comes to Democrats’ and Republicans’ views on handling misinformation.
November 03, 2023
A fourth Republican presidential debate has been set for next month, with heightened polling requirements that could make the stage less crowded than before
November 03, 2023
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a ban on gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns violates federal law
November 03, 2023
The new president of the Boy Scouts of America plans to reverse the trend of declining membership and improve safety programs as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a sexual abuse scandal
November 03, 2023
If safety is the heart of the Biden administration’s executive order on AI, then civil rights is its soul.
November 03, 2023
A scholar of the Mideast at a large public university says that caring and a commitment to free speech have been central to his campus’s response to students upset and angry over the Israel-Hamas war.
November 03, 2023
First used in the 1970s, the social theory known as intersectionality triggered widespread debate on racial identifications and the interplay among categories.
November 03, 2023
For the second time in three months, the national debate over reproductive rights focuses on Ohio
November 03, 2023
A majority of American adults think artificial intelligence tools will increase the spread of false and misleading information in the 2024 presidential election
November 03, 2023
Misinformation about the latest Israel-Hamas war is thriving on social media platforms, where misrepresented video footage, mistranslations and outright falsehoods often crowd out real reporting from the conflict
November 02, 2023
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is taking stock one year out from Election Day and thinks it can hold the White House by framing the 2024 race around many of the same themes it used in 2020
November 02, 2023
Your doctor’s MD emerged from the Dark Ages, where practicing rational “human medicine” was seen as an expression of faith and maintaining one’s health a religious duty.
November 02, 2023
A constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Ohio will be decided in what is expected to be a preview of abortion battles across the country in 2024
November 02, 2023
Michigan Democrats have warned the White House that President Joe Biden’s response to the Israel-Hamas war could put his reelection campaign in jeopardy in the key swing state next year
November 02, 2023
Iga Swiatek says she and other women’s tennis players are more united than in the past as they seek changes on the WTA Tour, including improvements to prioritize the athletes’ well-being
November 02, 2023
Missiles from rebel Yemeni groups risk widening the Middle East conflict. But the motivation behind the attacks could be more about self-interest.
November 01, 2023
President Joe Biden is 80 and Donald Trump is 77, and they are prone to making gaffes
November 01, 2023
A Colorado judge has denied a motion by Donald Trump’s attorneys to dismiss a case challenging his eligibility to run for president because of the “insurrection” clause of the 14th Amendment
November 01, 2023
Republican senators have angrily challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville on his blockade of almost 400 military officers
November 01, 2023
Health care providers often dismiss endometriosis pain as ‘all in your head’ − which can delay a correct diagnosis and treatment for years.
November 01, 2023
A Missouri appeals court has ruled against a Republican-written description of abortion-rights ballot measures, calling his summaries politically partisan
October 31, 2023
Mike Johnson does not typically mention one aspect of his work before being elected to Congress
October 31, 2023
A bishop from Ukraine has a succinct message for Americans: “Please, hear our cry.”
October 31, 2023
A frustrated Dabo Swinney defended his Clemson career to a radio caller who questioned his performance as one of college football's highest-paid coaches
October 31, 2023
Spain's Catholic bishops have apologized again for sex abuses committed by members following a report by the national ombudsman that accused the church of widespread negligence
October 31, 2023
Young Latinos in the US often navigate a contradictory landscape: Their parents see them as not Latino enough, while teachers and peers view them as not American enough.
October 31, 2023
Trump’s call for violence is only part of a larger push for social disruption and destruction. For only in the wake of such events can a new, white, Christian, illiberal world arise.
October 31, 2023
Singapore’s defense minister has urged China as a dominant power in Asia to take the lead in reducing tensions in the region, warning that a military conflict like the one in Ukraine or the Israel-Hamas war would be devastating for the continent and its future
October 31, 2023
Senate Democrats say they will subpoena Republican megadonor Harlan Crow and conservative activist Leonard Leo for more information about their roles in organizing and paying for luxury travel for Supreme Court justices
October 31, 2023
A civil rights attorney says he will ask the U.S. Justice Department to investigate why authorities in Jackson, Mississippi, waited months to tell a woman that her son had been struck and killed by a police SUV driven by an off-duty officer
October 30, 2023
The Supreme Court is tackling the question of when public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts
October 30, 2023
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a two-book deal with Scribner, starting with a book reflecting on her years in government
October 30, 2023
Many people who aren’t Jewish are responding as if what’s been taking place is just another episode of Israeli-Palestinian violence. But it’s different for many Jews.
October 30, 2023
For Jewish people, Hamas’ violence against children was reminiscent of the Holocaust. For Palestinians, The Israel Defense Force’s killing their children reminds them of a painful past, too.
October 30, 2023
A one-stoplight farming community in conservative Idaho has embraced a goal that backers describe as progressive: universal preschool
October 30, 2023
Russians commemorated the victims of Soviet state terror on Sunday, while the Russian government continues its crackdown on dissent in the country
October 29, 2023
The stage is set for the New Hampshire presidential primary, even though the date hasn't been picked yet
October 29, 2023
Donald Trump is predicting he will win Iowa’s Republican presidential caucuses in January
October 29, 2023
Nikki Haley says Donald Trump is wrong to praise foreign strongmen and warns his “chaos, vendettas and drama” are dangerous
October 28, 2023
New House Speaker Mike Johnson has inherited many of the same problems that bedeviled Republican leaders with far more experience
October 28, 2023
Bryce Harper wants big leaguers to play in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, but Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says pausing the regular season to make that happen would be difficult
October 27, 2023
Misinformation targeting a reproductive rights measure on Ohio's fall ballot is appearing in an unusual place: the official website of the Republican-controlled state Senate
October 27, 2023
People, including children and adolescents, are being exposed to horrifying imagery in the news and on social media. But there are ways to stay informed without overconsuming harmful content.
October 27, 2023
Evangelical Christian conservatives have long had allies in top Republican leadership in Congress
October 27, 2023
With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains ironclad.
October 27, 2023
Thanks to a rabble-rousing, socialist priest, it’s a milestone year for direct democracy in the U.S. The practice of citizen-originated ballot measures began 125 years ago when South Dakota became the first state to have them
October 27, 2023
Abortion has had a complicated history in the Soviet Union and Russia
October 27, 2023
Supporters of a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution are far outraising their anti-abortion opponents in the months leading up to the November election
October 26, 2023
Dusty Baker’s bright smile, genuine care and love for people will live on in his remarkable baseball legacy as much as that signature toothpick, his baseball wisdom and winning into his mid-70s
October 26, 2023
“Stop the bombs and save lives!”
October 26, 2023
More than two weeks after Hamas' attack, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the initial attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward
October 26, 2023
As authorities around the world scramble to draw up guardrails for artificial intelligence, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warns against moving too fast on regulating the rapidly developing technology before it’s fully understood
October 26, 2023
Oregon State and Washington State claim the actions of the Pac-12 and Commissioner George Kliavkoff in response to members announcing their intent to leave the conference show those departing schools relinquished their rights to decide the long-term future of the league
October 25, 2023
Scholastic Inc. will end a widely criticized policy that made it easier for school book fairs not to sell works with racial, disability and LGBTQ+ themes
October 25, 2023
The Buffalo Bills haven’t looked like Super Bowl contenders in a month
October 25, 2023
A heated debate has emerged about the once-unimaginable shooting of a teacher by her 6-year-old student: How should the school district take care of the teacher
October 25, 2023
The city of Orlando is moving forward with plans to create a memorial on the property of the Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were massacred seven years ago
October 25, 2023
Being open to the possibility you could be wrong about your beliefs is an important part of learning about the world. But this trait is not enough on its own.
October 25, 2023
A new study from PEN America finds that tens of thousands of books are banned or restricted by U.S. prisons
October 25, 2023
Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional
October 25, 2023
Some U.S. lawmakers are demanding that seafood processed in two Chinese provinces be banned from entering the U.S. market because of concerns about rights abuses
October 24, 2023
Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis has pleaded guilty to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia
October 24, 2023
Ghosts can be spooky fun, but there’s no evidence they exist.
October 24, 2023
In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
October 24, 2023
An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for a penny. But after he died, it took on a life of its own.
October 24, 2023
To appeal to a new generation of philanthropists, the Brooklyn Community Foundation is ditching the word “foundation” and establishing itself with a new name: Brooklyn Org
October 23, 2023
Local elections in Democratic strongholds at both ends of Pennsylvania next month could show how voters feel about progressive candidates and issues such as abortion and crime ahead of the 2024 election
October 23, 2023
Author Salman Rushdie called for the unconditional defense of freedom of expression as he received a prestigious German prize
October 22, 2023
A K-9 police dog's attack on a Black motorist in Ohio is resurrecting questions about race relations and law enforcement tactics
October 22, 2023
Michigan State showed Adolf Hitler’s image as part of a pregame quiz on videoboards before playing No. 2 Michigan, and later apologized for the inappropriate content provided by an outside source
October 22, 2023
For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country’s core institutions
October 21, 2023
The fallout from the Israel-Hamas war has spilled into workplaces everywhere, with corporate leaders from the highest ranks of prominent companies weighing in with their views while workers complain their voices are not being heard
October 21, 2023
The battle over how to teach reading has landed in court
October 20, 2023
The Supreme Court says it will indefinitely block a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security
October 20, 2023
A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax
October 20, 2023
A new documentary “Uncharitable,” from “Paris Trout” and “Losing Isaiah” director Stephen Gyllenhaal, puts the long-running debate in the nonprofit sector over the role of overhead back in the spotlight
October 20, 2023
The International Olympic Committee has dismissed claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin of “ethnic discrimination” against athletes who are excluded from international sport
October 20, 2023
Japanese author Haruki Murakami says he is torn by the conflict in Israel since he has Jewish friends but understands that the situation of the Palestinians is dire
October 20, 2023
Liberal discontent over rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority is playing a role in Pennsylvania’s top-of-the-ballot election this fall
October 19, 2023
A tale of quick-witted survival during the Israel-Hamas war has turned a 65-year old woman into an unlikely folk hero in Israel
October 18, 2023
Ameriprise Financial reports higher Q3 profit boosted by robust fee income
Rudy Giuliani is ordered to turn over assets to 2 Georgia election workers. How will that work?
Boeing defense's business is 'core', but struggles abound for new CEO
Belarusian president says foreign troops would escalate Ukraine conflict
What can the UN do if North Korea sends troops to Ukraine?
Big Tech tanks, yen slide accelerates
United Rentals misses third-quarter profit estimates on lower margins
Before Taylor Swift show in New Orleans, a homeless encampment is forced to move
Ron Ely, TV's 'Tarzan' in the 1960s, dies at 86
Miami Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa practices for first time since suffering another concussion