Tag: Human welfare
Belarus: Staff of popular news site in detention after raids
KYIV, Ukraine — Ten employees of a popular news site in Belarus that was raided and blocked by authorities this week remain in detention,...
Report: Tenure offer revoked from slavery project journalist
<p>CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school's reported decision to back away from offering...
Prosecutor says video, DNA will be key at Iowa slaying trial
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Video evidence, DNA analysis and a partial confession will be critical to proving a farm laborer stabbed a University of...
Tennessee governor OKs transgender youth treatment ban
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After signing two bills into law targeting transgender people over the past week, Tennessee's Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation that...
Report: Tenure offer revoked from slavery project journalist
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Faculty members of a North Carolina university want an explanation for the school's reported decision to back away from offering...
Can monthly cash payments cut child poverty by nearly half?
<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The check won't arrive until mid-July, but Katrina Peters already knows what she’ll do with her Child Tax Credit payments. The...
Belarus: Staff of popular news site in detention after raids
<p>KYIV, Ukraine — Ten employees of a popular news site in Belarus that was raided and blocked by authorities this week remain in detention,...
Gaza children bearing the brunt in Israel-Hamas conflict
GAZA CITY, Gaza — Suzy Ishkontana hardly speaks or eats. It’s been two days since the 7-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble of...
Attorney: US makes concessions to ease asylum restrictions
<p>SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration has agreed to let about 250 people a day through border crossings with Mexico to seek refuge in...
New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery
<p>AMSTERDAM — The delicacy of one of the first objects in new exhibition at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum belies its brutality. At the end of a...