Tag: Social issues
Some immigrants, hard hit by economic fallout, lose homes
<p>NEW YORK — Sotero Cirilo sleeps in a small blue tent under a train track bridge in Elmhurst, Queens. </p>
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Biden pushes for diversity in transition to clean energy
<p>NEW YORK — As the nation pushes to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and use cleaner energy sources, President Joe Biden’s administration says...
Suspected extremist in Kenya’s east blow up truck killing 2
NAIROBI, Kenya — At least two people were killed near Kenya's eastern border with Somalia when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over...
Iranian authorities break up mixed-gender party, arrest 16
<p>TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian police arrested 16 men and women at a mixed-gender party in the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi, the semi-official Tasnim...
E Indiana woman gets 55 years in slaying of child’s father
<p>PORTLAND, Ind. — A judge sentenced an eastern Indiana woman to 55 years in prison Tuesday after a jury convicted her of murder in...
As pandemic ebbs, an old fear is new again: mass shootings
PORTLAND, Ore. — Brianne Smith was overjoyed to get an e-mail telling her to schedule a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Hours later,...
Mother searches for son believed killed by Colombia soldiers
<p>BUCARAMANGA, Colombia — Doris Tejada last heard from her son on New Year’s Eve 2007. Óscar Alexander had left her home in central Colombia...
US report: Taliban will likely curtail Afghan women’s rights
<p>WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies are warning that any gains in women's rights in Afghanistan made in the last two decades will be at...
Court: Black man made to work without pay entitled to $546K
RICHMOND, Va. — After a Black man with intellectual disabilities was enslaved, beaten and forced to work more than 100 hours a week without...
Man who fatally shot 3 at Kansas Jewish sites dies in prison
<p>An avowed anti-Semite who fatally shot three people at Jewish sites in Kansas in 2014 has died in prison, the Kansas Department of Corrections...