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Sep 09 2015
News
Cautious on Syria war, Obama now cautious on refugee crisis
During the past four years 4 million Syrians have fled their country's civil war. The US has accepted just over 1,500 refugees so far ,allowing Europe to take the lead on the issue.
Christian Science MonitorAug 08 2019
News
Federal Gov't Agrees to Investigate Connecticut Policy Abolishing Girls-Only Sports Due to Transgender Opponents
The federal government announced Wednesday it will investigate allegations of discrimination filed by three Connecticut teenage girl athletes against Connecticut's policy regarding transgender athletes.
The US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights confirmed they have granted the girls' request for an investigation.
Ever since the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic
CBNAug 21 2020
News
Erased From the Trump Administration’s Draft of a Key Foreign Aid Policy: Any Mention of LGBT People
The lead U.S. foreign aid agency has proposed a new policy on gender and women’s empowerment that eliminates any mention of transgender people or contraceptives, running counter to its own long-standing practices in deciding what programs to support.
The draft policy released by the U.S. Agency for International Development on Wednesday was billed as an update and replacement to the
ProPublicaSep 28 2017
Opinion
OPINION: Congress could improve health care by reforming the False Claims Act
In a new Independence Institute working paper on the use and misuse of the False Claims Act (FCA), attorneys Mark W. Pearlstein and Laura McLane explain how an 1863 statute written to expose and punish Civil War contractors who billed for gunpowder and supplied kegs full of sawdust raises costs and threatens access to medical care.
The HillAug 08 2022
Perspectives Blog
The UN Just Declared a Universal Human Right to a Healthy, Sustainable Environment – Here’s Where Resolutions Like This Can Lead
This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Joel E. Correia, a Professor of Latin American Studies at University of Florida.
Climate change is already affecting much of the world’s population, with startlingly high temperatures from the Arctic to Australia. Air pollution from wildfires, vehicles and industries threatens
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Aug 10 2021
News
Cuomo could face these charges if arrested on Brittany Commisso allegations
The New York attorney general’s report on alleged sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo was the result of a civil investigation, but it has since led to law enforcement officials opening criminal investigations with the possibility of Cuomo being arrested.
The big question is what – if anything – could the governor be charged with? On Sunday, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple hinted at
Fox News DigitalJun 25 2020
News
Three Police Officers Fired After Violent Racist Assault Plan To ‘Slaughter’ Black People Caught on Video
Three police officers in Wilmington, N.C., have lost their jobs after the discovery of one of them saying in a video recording that it would take a civil war to eliminate Black people. While spewing the n-word, the officer also said he was willing to “slaughter” them with an assault rifle he planned to buy.
The Wilmington Police Department fired Cpl. Jessie Moore, and officers Kevin
BETDec 30 2019
Opinion
The spirit of the Emancipation Proclamation is under attack again today
Wednesday, Jan. 1, begins the new year. It also marks the anniversary of a new America.
On Jan. 1, 1863, as the Civil War, the bloodiest of America’s wars, approached the end of its second year, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are and henceforward shall be free.”
The
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.