Democratic Reps. Cori Bush (Mo.), Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) and Barbara Lee (Calif.) shared their abortion stories on Wednesday, a day before a congressional hearing on access to the procedure, which is under increasing threat.
More than two-thirds of Muslim Americans have personally encountered Islamophobia at least once in their life, according to a new survey. The study — which surveyed 1,123 American Muslims across the country last fall — aimed to assess the impact of Islamophobia on behaviors and attitudes, as well as to provide insight into how state…
Dozens of activists blocked traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge Thursday morning, demanding a pathway to citizenship for the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants. Activists with the Bay Area Coalition for Economic Justice and Citizenship for All halted traffic for 45 minutes by stopping over two dozen cars on the bridge, organizers said in…
The parents of Gabby Petito publicly thanked everyone who helped make progress in their daughter’s case on Tuesday, but her father also implored the press and social media users to give similar cases the same treatment, touching on the national conversation about why missing people of color don’t attract the same level of attention.
NEW YORK ― R. Kelly, the R&B singer who rose to fame in the 1990s, has been found guilty on all charges related to racketeering and sex trafficking after a trial at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse.
In tandem with the relentless reports of higher temperatures, extreme weather, natural disasters and depleted resources saturating your newsfeed, you may find yourself experiencing an uptick in anxiety, depression and existential dread — better known as eco-anxiety.
On Thursday, Daniel Foote, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti, resigned from his position in protest of the “inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees.” He blasted President Joe Biden’s policy as “deeply flawed.”
Despite President Joe Biden’s pledge to overhaul immigration and welcome refugees to the U.S., 2021 is on pace for a record low in refugee admissions. According to the latest State Department numbers, the U.S. has accepted just 7,637 refugees this year as of Aug. 31 ― putting it on pace for a historic low, as…
TOKYO (AP) — Guinness World Records has certified two Japanese sisters as the world’s oldest living identical twins at 107, in an announcement Monday coinciding with Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday in Japan.
If there were an Emmy award for irony, Sunday night’s ceremony would be the clear winner. “It’s so great to see that television and the stories we tell are finally becoming a reflection of every part of our society. Voices of Black, Latinx, Asian American and Indigenous creators, along with the LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse and disabled…