Tag: Social issues
New SC abortion law remains on hold under judge’s order
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A new South Carolina law banning abortions will stay on hold following a judge's order on Friday to extend a temporary...
Journal’s ‘appalling’ racism podcast, tweet prompt outcry
<p>A prominent medical journal’s provocative tweet was meant to prompt interest in a podcast on racism. Instead, the Twitter post and the podcast stoked...
Journal’s ‘appalling’ racism podcast, tweet prompt outcry
A prominent medical journal’s provocative tweet was meant to prompt interest in a podcast on racism. Instead, the Twitter post and the podcast stoked...
Pitcher Sam Dyson banned 1 yr under domestic violence policy
<p>NEW YORK — Pitcher Sam Dyson was suspended for the 2021 season by Major League Baseball on Friday under the domestic violence policy of...
Pitcher Sam Dyson banned 1 yr under domestic violence policy
NEW YORK — Pitcher Sam Dyson was suspended for the 2021 season by Major League Baseball on Friday under the domestic violence policy of...
US says it will reduce detention of immigrant families
<p>HOUSTON — U.S. immigration authorities will no longer use a small Pennsylvania detention center to hold parents and children seeking asylum, part of a...
Iran: Militants attack Revolutionary Guard unit in southeast
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An armed separatist group in Iran’s restive southeast assaulted a vehicle carrying members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard paramilitary force...
Man gets 17 1/2 years in fatal Indiana workplace shooting
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a co-worker in 2019 at their southern Indiana workplace has been sentenced to...
Macron reveals more torture by French army in Algeria war
<p>PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron has met with four grandchildren of an Algerian independence fighter to tell them that Ali Boumendjel had been tortured...
Chief European Union diplomat in Venezuela leaves country
CARACAS, Venezuela — The chief European Union diplomat in Venezuela left the country on Tuesday, a week after the government of Nicolás Maduro ordered...