Equality
More than two years after the historic incident on January 6, court cases involving alleged participants in the breaching of the U.S. Capitol are still being resolved. On Monday, a 54-year-old...
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Last week, Donald Trump became the first current or former U.S. president to be charged with a crime. Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury appears to be tied to hush money Trump...
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Last month marked 55 years since the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. As an activist, King stood up to not just the U.S. government-enforced institutional racism in the...
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Car accident deaths in the U.S. are on the rise. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, there were more than 5.2 million car crashes in the U.S. in 2020, resulting in 38,824 fatalities...
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Domestic workers clean houses, cook meals, care for children, and provide in-home aid to frail older adults. For many families, the service they provide is incalculable. All told, 2.2 million people...
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As the world comes to the realization of the profound damages human beings are causing to natural environments worldwide, groups across the globe have long been trying to protect the local land and...
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In the wake of the Nashville shooting, a heated exchange broke out on Thursday between New York Democratic Representative Jamaal Bowman and Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie. The argument concerned...
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A disaster at Rome’s Fidenae Amphitheatre in 27 AD killed an estimated 20,000 people, making it the deadliest structural failure in human history, according to ForneyVault, a software company...
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Most lists of large cities with severe ecological problems are headlined by metros in China and India. A research by the global think tank Institute for Economics & Peace identifying megacities...
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Saudi Arabia has long been criticized globally for its treatment of girls and women. In recent years, reforms, including allowing women to drive cars and easing restrictions on women’s employment...
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The most powerful earthquake ever measured occurred in Chile in 1960, according to a 24/7 Tempo analysis.
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The Civil Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, made it illegal for employers and businesses to discriminate based on race, color, religion, or nationality. Though...
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You may not believe it till you see it, but according to a recent USDA report, retail prices of eggs have actually begun to ease. More than perhaps any other product, eggs have become a symbol of...
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Gun sales spiked sharply over the course of COVID-19 pandemic. From 2016 through 2019, firearm background checks, widely used as an approximation for gun sales trends, were fairly flat, between 25...
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Gun sales, as approximated by background checks, surged in 2020 to 39,695,315 just as the COVID-19 pandemic began. They remained high through the middle of last year, and then started to decline....
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