Tag: Social affairs
Texas Tech’s Shannon declares for NBA without hiring agent
<p>LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech sophomore Terrence Shannon Jr. declared for the NBA draft Thursday without hiring an agent, making him eligible to return...
Israeli university heads defend free speech in prize dispute
<p>JERUSALEM — Presidents of Israeli universities released a joint letter Friday criticizing the government's decision to withhold the country's most prestigious prize from a...
ADL: Fox should fire Carlson for white-supremacist rhetoric
<p>The Anti-Defamation League has called for Fox News to fire prime-time opinion host Tucker Carlson because he defended a white-supremacist theory that says whites...
Passage of Kansas bill on trans athletes won’t be veto-proof
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas conservatives appeared likely Friday to push a proposed ban on transgender athletes in girl's and women's school sports through the...
Letter: Prison shouldn’t shackle women who just had babies
ATLANTA — Women at a Georgia prison who have given birth just days or weeks earlier are improperly and inhumanely shackled and placed in...
Brazil top court orders probe of Bolsonaro’s pandemic steps
<p>SAO PAULO — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the Senate on Thursday to investigate the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis and the...
Transgender woman seeks transfer from Georgia men’s prison
<p>ATLANTA — A transgender woman held in a Georgia men's prison says she has been sexually assaulted repeatedly and denied necessary medical treatment and...
US to keep migrant families in hotels as amid rush for space
<p>Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/is-us-mexico-border-in-crisis-explained-6a412f3edf07715509e3181b8bc63ca7">growing number of people</a> crossing the U.S.-Mexico border,...
Spanish league finds no proof of racial abuse by player
MADRID — The Spanish league said Friday it has not found any evidence to support accusations by a player who said he was racially...
Hackers try to extort University of Colorado in cyberattack
BOULDER, Colo. — Hackers are trying to extort the University of Colorado after a cyberattack that potentially compromised personal information from more than 310,000...