Tag: Social issues
More than 200 NGOs call for UN arms embargo on Myanmar
<p>UNITED NATIONS — More than 200 global organizations urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar, saying the...
San Francisco OKs task force to study Black reparations
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco officials on Tuesday approved a task force that will study financial compensation, community programs and other ways to make...
States push back against use of facial recognition by police
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about...
Biden touts applications to $28.6B restaurant relief program
<p>The Biden administration is highlighting early applications for a $28.6 billion program for eateries that closed, shifted to take-out or restricted the number of...
Dead person found in car submerged in Illinois-Indiana lake
<p>HAMMOND, Ind. — A dead person has been was found inside a car submerged in a lake straddling Northwest Indiana and Illinois, police said.</p>
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San Diego County will provide immigrants with lawyers
SAN DIEGO — San Diego County will provide attorneys to immigrants facing deportation proceedings under a pilot program approved Tuesday by the Board of...
Lawsuit seeks Confederate statue’s removal from courthouse
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Civil rights advocates sued a Maryland county on Wednesday to seek the court-ordered removal of a Confederate monument from a...
Some Black parents say remote learning gives racism reprieve
<p>CHICAGO — Before schools shuttered during the pandemic, Ayaana Johnson worried every time she dropped her daughters off at school.</p>
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Senators keep South Carolina hate crime bill alive for now
<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's effort to become the next-to-last state to pass a hate crimes law survived a challenge from some Republican senators...
Man with neo-Nazi ties gets 3 years for bogus threats, calls
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A former neo-Nazi leader was sentenced to more than 3 years in prison Tuesday for his role in a conspiracy...