By the time Jesse Fernandez turned 18, the federal government had paid out thousands of dollars in Social Security survivor’s benefits because of the death of his mother. But Jesse’s bank account was empty. Source link
WASHINGTON — Twenty-three million families in the U.S. will have bigger internet bills starting in May. That’s because a federal broadband subsidy program they’re enrolled in is nearly out of money. Dozens of people joined Biden administration officials, advocates and U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, a Democrat from Vermont, at a Washington public library on Tuesday […]
NEW YORK — #MeToo founder Tarana Burke has heard it before. Every time there’s a legal setback, the movement is declared dead in the water. A legal success, and presto, it’s alive again. So Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase “Me too” from her work with sexual assault survivors, found herself again […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday criticized former President Donald Trump’s view that abortion rights should be determined by the states instead of the federal government. Mr. Graham said the focus should be on the wellbeing of unborn children, not where they are born. “I respectfully disagree with President Trump’s statement that abortion is a states’ […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gay rights advocates pushed back Wednesday against a Republican-sponsored measure to broaden Kentucky’s religious freedom law, claiming it threatens to undermine community-level “fairness ordinances” meant to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination. The measure, House Bill 47, won approval from the House Judiciary Committee, but some supporters signaled a willingness to make revisions […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — An American porn actor who has advocated for Palestinians online during Israel‘s war on Hamas traveled to Iran and visited the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, which was abandoned after the 1979 hostage crisis. The visit by Whitney Wright as Iran imprisons Nobel Peace Prize laureate and women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi […]
Tens of millions of women worldwide are persecuted for their religious beliefs or nonbeliefs, advocates at the International Religious Freedom Summit 2024 say, but their stories often go untold because of their gender. “The research points to the fact that because they’re women, sometimes they’re sold into sex slavery; sometimes there are forced conversions; sometimes […]
Advocates for children who have sued the federal government and several states over climate change are now urging the Supreme Court to remember future generations in considering whether to allow former President Trump on the 2024 ballot. They say children and “yet-to-be-born Americans” will be left with a democracy led by an insurrectionist if the […]
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