Tag: Social affairs
COVID relief bill could permanently alter social safety net
<p>WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package is being hailed by Democrats and progressive policy advocates as a generational expansion of...
Kentucky Senate votes to make it a crime to taunt police
FRANKFORT, Ky — It could become a crime to taunt a police officer in Kentucky, under a bill that passed the state Senate on...
Cyprus pulls back on wider easing of COVID-19 restrictions
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus on Friday put the brakes on a wider loosening of COVID-19 restrictions by keeping middle school students at home for...
Task force urges independent oversight of St. Louis jail
ST. LOUIS — A task force appointed to examine concerns about a troubled St. Louis jail is urging the city to create an independent...
Federal look into Breonna Taylor’s death casts a wider net
<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Their numbers have dwindled since protesters first flooded Louisville’s streets after police fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her home a year...
Groups sue over California county’s plan to drill oil wells
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Environmental and community groups have sued a California county after the prime oil-drilling region approved a plan to fast-track thousands of...
Memo banning Afghan girls singing prompts #IAmMySong protest
KABUL, Afghanistan — A memo from Afghanistan's education ministry banning girls 12 years old and older from singing at school functions has been causing...
Rights groups and Olympic leaders in Beijing Games stalemate
GENEVA — Activists protesting the 2022 Beijing Olympics hoped China’s record on human rights would get on the agenda this week at a major...
For Syrians, a decade of displacement with no end in sight
<p>BAR ELIAS, Lebanon — Mohammed Zakaria has lived in a plastic tent in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley for almost as long as war has...
German special forces soldier convicted over gun, ammo stash
<p>BERLIN — A court in Germany has convicted a special forces soldier of breaking firearms laws for hoarding rifles, explosives and ammunition at his...