As Heat Spikes, U.S. Workers Seen Facing ‘Health or Pay’ Dilemma
U.S. workers from farm labourers to builders could lose billions of dollars in earnings each year as extreme heat makes it difficult for them to work outdoors safely, researchers warned this week, calling for urgent measures to protect them. Americans whose job requires them to be outside could lose about $1,700 on average each year […]
U.S. Diversity Push For Lawyers, Agents To Tackle Housing Crisis
Former non-profit worker Christine Hernandez had never considered becoming a housing attorney, but after 2015, when she got priced out of her home in Oakland, California, she thought a lot about the issue. Over the next five years, Hernandez and her family went through a period of unstable housing, including nearly three years squatting. Then, last […]
U.S. Overhauls Flood Insurance To Meet Rising Climate Change Risks
Frank Romero hasn’t faced a major flood in years but he nearly lost his home all the same – a victim of substantial insurance premiums for living in a designated risk area. The New Mexico retiree, who still works as a locksmith, racked up a bill of almost $50,000 then junked his policy with the […]
‘Digital Divide’ hits rural Black Americans hardest
The lack of internet access in the United States is particularly pronounced in rural, southern areas with higher Black populations, researchers said Wednesday amid a battle in Congress over how to close the digital divide. African Americans across rural counties in 10 mostly southern states were nearly twice as likely to report not having home internet […]
U.S. Supreme Court rules for Nestle, Cargill over slavery lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit accusing Cargill Inc and a Nestle SA subsidiary of knowingly helping perpetuate slavery at Ivory Coast cocoa farms but sidestepped a broader ruling on the permissibility of suits accusing American companies of human rights violations abroad. The 8-1 ruling authored by Justice Clarence Thomas reversed […]
In Historic First, Two Powerful Women Flank U.S. President
President Joe Biden’s address to Congress broke a historic glass ceiling on Wednesday, as two women – Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – sat behind the president for the first time in U.S. history. The seating arrangement carried a symbolic meaning for the advancement of U.S. women in recent decades, since […]
Killings of Asian Women Renew Push For Tougher U.S. Hate Crime Laws
The killings of six women of Asian descent in Georgia this week have prompted fresh calls to pass hate crime laws in the handful of states without them and for law enforcement elsewhere to invoke protections already in place. U.S. hate crime laws vary widely by state, and prosecutors do not always use them. But […]
The Inauguration Of Joe Biden
The inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris just wrapped up. Now, there will be an inaugural parade — although it will be largely a virtual one. Biden and Harris will have a presidential escort from 15th Street to the White House including the US Army Band, a Joint Service Honor Guard and […]
As Inauguration Nears, Law Enforcement Scrutiny Drives U.S. Extremists Into Internet’s Dark Corners
Shortly after rampaging Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a fan of the president posted a message on the pro-Donald Trump website TheDonald.win. Inspired by the mob’s attempt to stop lawmakers from confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral win, user CONN_WYNN said in an all-caps message, replete with an expletive, that it was […]
Scientists say that, if U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers his plan to cut emissions to net-zero by 2050, the world will once again have a chance of keeping climate change in check The election of Democrat Joe Biden as the next U.S. president puts the world “within striking distance” of limiting global warming to 1.5 […]
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