By Simon Osuji  Over a year after the international protests following George Floyd and Breonna Taylor’s killings, criminal justice reform and police accountability remain essentially the same. The promise of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act remains unfulfilled, as a bipartisan negotiation team has stalled.  According to Politico, Sens. Cory Booker, Tim
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By Rob Picheta, Celine Alkhaldi, Nada Bashir and Nina Avramova Thousands of desperate Afghans remain stranded under Taliban rule in Kabul on Tuesday, as the US and its allies — still frantically evacuating their personnel from the city’s airport — reckon with the sudden breakdown of their two-decade effort in Afghanistan. The situation at Hamid Karzai International
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By Brian Stelter As US government officials prepare to brief the public about Covid-19 vaccine booster shots, there is an emerging consensus coming from influential corners of the national news media: people should anticipate that Covid-19 is here to stay. It’s time to adjust expectations accordingly. While some countries are still pursuing a “Covid zero” strategy, the United
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Opinion by Dan Schulman, Robert F. Smith and Rich Lesser Amid the national reckoning over racial inequality, corporations and foundations across the country have pledged roughly $11 billion to support causes that promote racial equity. Yet to date, only about half of that promised amount — roughly $5.8 billion — appears to have translated into
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By Jill Martin Naomi Osaka, preparing to compete in her first tennis tournament since the Tokyo Olympics, briefly took a break during a pre-tournament news conference on Monday after she started crying. The Western & Southern Open news conference in Mason, Ohio, began with Osaka answering questions regarding mental health and doing press conferences —
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By Rob Polansky Several Connecticut community colleges rank as some of the best in the country. The personal finance website WalletHub.com on Monday released two lists, including 2021’s Best & Worst Community Colleges and 2021’s States with the Best Community College Systems. Northwestern Connecticut Community College in Winsted ranked as the 20th best community
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By Tami Luhby Food stamp benefits will jump 27% above pre-pandemic levels, on average, starting in October — the largest increase in the program’s history, the Biden administration announced Monday. The boost, which advocates say is long overdue, stems from an update to the Thrifty Food Plan, which determines the benefit amounts of the Supplemental
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By Kaitlan Collins Top health officials in the Biden administration are coalescing around an agreement that most Americans should get Covid booster shotseight months after becoming fully vaccinated, two sources familiar with the discussions tell CNN. The plan, which is still being developed, would involve administering third shots beginning in mid- to late September, one
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By Leah Asmelash Since rising to fame with her inauguration poem, Amanda Gorman has stayed busy — appearing on the cover of magazines and preparing to drop her debut poetry collection. Now, the former National Youth Poet Laureate is giving back, with a new creative writing award for public high school students boasting a first-place
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By Erin Gretzinger A UW-Madison student evicted from university housing for dating a Black man. Others expelled amid an administrative campaign to systematically seek out and remove homosexual male students from campus. Abusive conduct by a UW-Madison police officer who led the department for decades with impunity. It’s not exactly the stuff of college brochures.
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