Tag: Social issues
Mexican president wants work visas, citizenship for farmers
<p>MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday he will ask U.S. President Joe Biden to give work visas to Mexican...
Navalny’s doctors prevented from seeing him at prison clinic
<p>MOSCOW — Several doctors were prevented Tuesday from seeing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prison hospital after his three-week hunger strike and...
Russian shot at border pleads guilty to illegal re-entry
<p>PHOENIX — A Russian immigrant who once staged a monthlong hunger strike at an Arizona detention center and was shot several months later during...
UN rights experts seek more information about Dubai princess
GENEVA — Independent experts working with the U.N. human rights office on Tuesday called on the United Arab Emirates' government to provide more details...
Biden OKs more foreign seasonal workers as economy improves
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration announced an increase Tuesday in the number of temporary seasonal workers who will be allowed to work in...
Legislation aims to kill 90% of wolves roaming Idaho
BOISE, Idaho — A Republican-dominated state Senate committee on Tuesday approved legislation allowing the state to hire private contractors to kill about 90% of...
Arkansas officials hear Baffert’s appeal of drug positives
<p>Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, fined and suspended last year by Arkansas racing officials for a pair of drug positives, sat through nearly...
Bush criticizes GOP isolationism, anti-immigration rhetoric
<p>WASHINGTON — George W. Bush says the Republican Party he served as president has become “isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist” and...
New St. Louis mayor pledges to fight all discrimination
<p>ST. LOUIS — Tishaura Jones has called systemic racism the biggest obstacle to progress in St. Louis, and the city’s new mayor used her...
Russia’s feared prisons follow system from Soviet Gulag era
MOSCOW — Some Russian prisons might be mistaken for vacation destinations based on their nicknames, with animal appellations that include the Black Dolphin and...