Nearly 120 local and national organizations, including African Communities Together and U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, are calling for an 18-month extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia.
As Daily Kos has covered, Indigenous folks continue to face discrimination, oppression, and overall lack of autonomy both globally and specifically in the United States. There is a long, painful history of abuse toward Native folks—take, for example, the recently discovered remains of 215 Indigenous children at a residential school in Canada—as well as systemic issues, like lack of access to clean water and poverty, that face folks today.
The Biden administration has formally ended the previous administration’s anti-asylum Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) policy, which forced tens of thousands of asylum-seekers and their families to wait for their U.S. immigration court dates in dangerous regions of Mexico for as long as two years, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
The party’s progressive wing is growing increasingly restless as campaign promises go undone.
Republican governors don’t need a personal reason to cut off $300 a week in added unemployment aid for 4 million people. Making life harder for people struggling to get by is the Republican way. But some of the Republican governors who’ve announced they’re opting their states out of the federal unemployment supplement do have that personal reason, in the form of business interests.
West Virginia Gov.
The state rep. is accused of allowing violent protesters into the Oregon state Capitol in December.
The company’s last publicity stunt—the “Voltswagen” name change fiasco—went so badly it sparked an SEC investigation.
“This is an earthquake,” a prominent Christian writer told me.The publication of an extraordinary February 24, 2020, letter by Russell Moore, one of the most influential and respected evangelicals in America (and a friend), has shaken the Christian world.When the letter was written, Moore was the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.
And I am treated like a snooty elitist who is trying to enforce manners.
The Alabama Republican spent months evading the Capitol riot suit filed by Rep. Eric Swalwell.
Bracing for political trouble, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned Democratic colleagues that June will “test our resolve.
The FDA’s decision to approve the drug, siding with industry and patient advocates, raises new questions about whether it is lowering its burden of proof for drugmakers.
The classics department at Princeton University recently decided that the idea that classics majors ought to know Latin or Greek has been a mistake. Old-fashioned, perhaps. Until now, undergrads who wanted to major in the study of classical texts needed to come into the concentration with at least an intermediate level of Latin or Greek. But those students will no longer even have to learn either language to receive a degree in classics.
Israel is cracking down on Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, occupied East Jerusalem and inside Israel amid the ongoing ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. Israeli police have arrested nearly 2,000 Palestinians over the past month in an attempt to quell protests and uprisings against the occupation, according to the newspaper Haaretz.
Social media giant Facebook has announced it has suspended former President Donald Trump’s account until at least 2023. He was initially suspended from the platform for comments to supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and is permanently banned on Twitter. Facebook’s move could have implications for other world leaders who use Facebook, like Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
We speak to Jameel Jaffer about a petition asking the Supreme Court to review whether the public has a right to access the decisions of the special federal court that rules on the legality of government surveillance, known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISA Court.
The New York Times has revealed shocking details about an unsuccessful attempt by the Trump administration, and then the Biden administration, to secretly obtain the email logs of four reporters at the newspaper. As part of the campaign, the Biden Justice Department placed a gag order on the Times in March to prevent many at the paper from even knowing about the request until a federal court lifted it.
Finance ministers from seven of the world’s wealthiest nations have backed a plan to set a minimum global corporate tax rate of at least 15% on multinational companies. The agreement, which was reached during a meeting in Britain of the G7, or Group of 7, is “historic” but should have aimed higher, says economist Joseph Stiglitz. “If you have too low of a tax rate, that minimum tax becomes, de facto, the maximum tax,” he says.
An hour’s drive south of Cape Town, at a small beach hidden from the main road by suburban houses, you’ll find one of Africa’s top tourist attractions: the Boulders colony of African penguins.These birds usually nest on hard-to-reach offshore islands, but at Boulders a cordon of residential blocks shields the beach and the surrounding dunes from land-based predators like the caracal lynx, and the penguins feel safe enough to breed.
Parenting advice on teenage weight gain, anti-vaxxers, and where to live.
Less than a quarter of Black Americans have received their first Covid-19 shot. That’s less than other racial and ethnic groups tracked by the CDC.
She’s delusional, but it’s straining my relationship with my son.
A growing movement wants to scrap bus and subway fares. That’s not what riders need most.
He wants me to move in with him. I’m suspicious of his motives—but it sure would be nice not to have to worry about rent.
Get ready for HQ2, uh, part two.
The effort to reach the unvaccinated has become the latest political fault line in the Covid response.
Conservatives are amplifying attacks on Fauci after the release of his emails. And they’re fundraising off of it too.
New Jersey has been operating under a public health emergency for almost all of the pandemic.
