Organizers across the state rallied voters for Tuesday’s election between liberal Janet Protasiewicz and conservative Dan Kelly, which will determine the makeup of a court likely to hear cases on abortion and how the state’s democracy works.
The state Senate approved a bill that would significantly restrict abortion access in the nation’s third most populous state, with significant implications for the South.
The program provides graduates and mid-career alums of Historically Black Colleges and Universities with full-year, salaried fellowships in editorial, audience engagement, and product and technology.
House Bill 999 would prohibit students from majoring or minoring in certain disciplines, and could pose a risk to Black sororities and fraternities, Latinx groups, affinity groups or even veterans’ organizations.
In 1995, dozens of garment workers, most of them women, were freed from a California sweatshop. The lawyer who is now Biden’s nominee to head the Labor Department took their case.
Families of trans youth spoke with top officials at the Education Department about their hopes and fears as anti-LGBTQ+ state legislation ramps up.
The ruling eliminates an Affordable Care Act requirement to cover PrEP medication, screening for sexually-transmitted infections, breastfeeding support and other measures that affect reproductive health.
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is currently the only woman leader who is an official head of government in all of Africa’s 54 countries.
The legislation declares that the federal government has a duty to protect trans and nonbinary people as they experience discrimination in their day-to-day lives.
