‘Everyone is coming into fire’: students return to US campuses bruised and changed by Trump’s assault
The effects of a rightwing campaign to remake American higher education are fueling fear and anxiety, but advocates say they have plans to fight back Students and faculty heading back to US colleges and universities from summer break are returning to bruised institutions reeling from the Trump administration’s unprecedented campaign to bend higher education to […]
Alarming levels of Pfas in blood of those living near US air force base, study finds
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ were found at a level 10 times higher than people who did not work in contaminated zone New research shows alarming levels of Pfas in the blood of people living or working near a US air force base responsible for polluting drinking water with high levels of the dangerous “forever chemicals”, a […]
‘Shameful’: Democrats join call for closure of Texas immigration jail
Camp at Fort Bliss base on US-Mexico border described as ‘dangerous misuse of military land and resources’ Prominent Democratic lawmakers and legal advocates have called for the new immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss military base to be shut down amid accusations of lack of external oversight and concerns over access to legal services. Camp […]
The new Democrat faces seeking office prevent their party from ‘sleepwalking into dystopia’
A new generation of Democrats is deeply unhappy with the entrenched political establishment. So they’re going to try to take it over Earlier this year, Liam Elkind seized an opportunity to ask his longtime congressman, Jerry Nadler, what everyday New Yorkers like himself could do to help Democrats stand up to Donald Trump. Nadler’s response, […]
Survivor of abuse at Florida all-boys school finally gets diploma at 75
Eddie Horne attended Dozier School for Boys in 1960s, a state-run institution known for molestation and beatings A 75-year-old Florida man has just received his high school diploma decades after his education was derailed by severe abuse that he endured as a teenager while attending a notoriously brutal reform school. As he recounted to the […]
