Tag: Social issues
Suburban Chicago woman gets 6.5 years for labor trafficking
<p>CHICAGO — A suburban Chicago woman was sentenced Tuesday to six and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to charges alleging she...
Judge orders LA to offer shelter for homeless on Skid Row
<p>LOS ANGELES — A federal judge overseeing a sweeping lawsuit about homelessness in Los Angeles on Tuesday ordered the city and county to find...
Arkansas officials hear Baffert’s appeal of drug positives
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
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
ST. LOUIS — Tishaura Jones has called systemic racism the biggest obstacle to progress in St. Louis, and the city’s new mayor used her...
Gaetz, Greene flaunt new paths to power, testing GOP leaders
<p>WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders have always faced rebels in their ranks. But Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are presenting top House Republicans...
Climate change creates migrants. Biden considers protections
<p>SAN DIEGO — Ioane Teitiota and his wife fought for years to stay in New Zealand as refugees, arguing that rising sea levels caused...
DiCaprio, Fonda urge US not to sign climate deal with Brazil
<p>RIO DE JANEIRO — Dozens of celebrities including actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda and Joaquin Phoenix on Tuesday called on U.S. President Joe Biden...
Older Korean-Americans in LA fearful amid anti-Asian attacks
Los Angeles — Yong Sin Kim, an 85-year-old Korean immigrant living in a senior apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles, says he rarely leaves...
Ted Nugent, who once dismissed COVID-19, sickened by virus
Rocker Ted Nugent is revealing he was in agony after testing positive for coronavirus — months after he said the virus was “not a...