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Census change will lead to more data on health of Middle Eastern, North African people in US
Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the University of Michigan — clinicians told her that her hormone levels were too high and that her pregnancy was in danger. “They don’t know us,” her mother reassured her.
Iyman Hamad, a Palestinian American public ...Read more
Holdout states consider expanding Medicaid -- with work requirements
In Humphreys County, Mississippi — about 70 miles north of the state capital, in the heart of the fertile Delta region — a third of the residents live in poverty. In Belzoni, the county seat, there are just a handful of health care clinics. The town’s only major hospital closed more than a decade ago, around the same time its catfish ...Read more
SC has a teacher shortage. But teachers who leave can be blackballed from coming back
COLUMBIA, S.C -- South Carolina schools are suffering from a shortage of hundreds of teachers, with the number of vacancies only growing. But that hasn’t stopped the state from barring scores of teachers who may want to return to the classroom.
Last year, South Carolina suspended the teaching certificates of 166 teachers for a period of ...Read more
After 25 years of selling tamales in Chicago, an undocumented immigrant mother returns to Mexico without her family
Claudia Perez’s children could count on one hand the number of times they had seen their father cry.
The day their mother left was one of them.
Perez had worked her whole life for a dream that did not come true: Save enough money to take her family back to Mexico and live together in the town where they were all born.
Instead, on a cold ...Read more
He thinks his wife died in an understaffed hospital. Now he's trying to change the industry
For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife’s death.
The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard died on Nov. 19, 2022: She succumbed to respiratory failure after an infection put too much strain on her weakened lungs. She was 65.
For Tim Lillard, the ...Read more
Rural jails turn to community health workers to help the newly released succeed
MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.
He blames his addiction. He started using in middle school, and by the time he was an adult he was addicted to meth and heroin. At various points...Read more
Haiti's new leaders wanted to take power in the presidential palace. Then reality hit
Members of Haiti’s new transition government, who are readying to officially assume office on Thursday, were hoping to take the oath of office on the grounds of the presidential palace, the symbol of power even if the once ornate building hasn’t been rebuilt after collapsing in the 2010 earthquake.
But on Monday as a delegation visited the ...Read more
Man accused of beating trans woman to death as she slept near Miami City Ballet is arrested
MIAMI — A man caught on video surveillance beating a transgender woman to death — smacking her on her head and face with a pipe as she slept Tuesday near the Miami City Ballet building in Miami Beach — has been arrested, police said.
Gregory Fitzgerald Gibert, 53, who was out on probation, is charged with the second-degree murder of 37-...Read more
Minnesota state Sen. Nicole Mitchell's arrest delays votes, but DFL should keep majority despite Republican ethics probe push
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republican Minnesota senators on Wednesday unsuccessfully pushed to speed up an ethics investigation and expulsion of a Democratic-Farmer-Labor senator facing a felony burglary charge. But for now, it appears the DFL will hold onto control of the chamber — at least for the rest of the session.
The GOP is asking for an ...Read more
Kansas Marine vet who breached Capitol on Jan. 6 with flag painted on head pleads guilty
A Wichita, Kansas, man who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, wearing a patriotic face mask with an American flag painted on his head has pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor.
Chad Dustin Suenram, a U.S. Marine veteran, pleaded guilty to entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, court records show. His hearing was ...Read more
Boeing prosecutors aim to decide criminal charge by early June
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department could decide by the first week of June whether to tear up its controversial deferred-prosecution agreement with Boeing Co., according to lawyers for the families of people killed in two crashes of 737 Max jets.
Prosecutors met with the families Wednesday in Washington to share information about the ...Read more
Student dies after shooting at Arlington Bowie High School in Texas; 17-year-old suspect in custody
ARLINGTON, Texas — An 18-year-old student was killed in a shooting Wednesday afternoon on the campus of Bowie High School in Arlington, and the suspected shooter — a 17-year-old student — was arrested, police said.
Bowie High School was placed on lockdown and students were kept there for over two hours as authorities investigated the ...Read more
Ex-Connecticut city official, mayoral candidate sentenced for storming US Capitol
A former Connecticut city official was sentenced Wednesday to 10 days in jail for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol in support of former President Donald Trump.
Gene DiGiovanni Jr., 42, successfully ran for a spot on the Derby Board of Aldermen after the riot, but before his participation was revealed. He gave up his ...Read more
'We will not stop, we will not rest!' USC students join national pro-Palestinian camps
LOS ANGELES — More than 100 University of Southern California students and off-campus supporters erected tents, banners and signs in the center of campus Wednesday, joining a growing national sit-in movement across college campuses as pro-Palestinian activists demand that universities call for a permanent cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and...Read more
House Speaker Johnson calls for Shafik resignation over Columbia Gaza protests, says National Guard may be needed
NEW YORK — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday called on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign over her handling of the Gaza protests and said the national guard may be needed to restore order, as he met with Jewish students feeling unsafe and targeted amid the campus unrest.
“My intention is to call President ...Read more
Connecticut Senate approves bill to regulate artificial intelligence and criminalize 'deepfake' pornography
HARTFORD, Conn. — Trying to regulate the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence, the Connecticut state Senate approved a sweeping bill Wednesday night that creates a framework designed to help consumers and avoid the downsides of AI.
Lawmakers have struggled for months in a balancing act to try to foster regulation at the same time as ...Read more
The law is 'clear,' Idaho AG Labrador says. Supreme Court hears case on abortion ban
WASHINGTON — Outside the front steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, anti-abortion groups and abortion rights advocates battled to make their stances known, each wielding signs, stickers and blaring PA systems.
Inside the court’s cool marble walls, the tension over abortion access — specifically whether Idaho can enforce ...Read more
Trump is a co-conspirator in Michigan's 2020 false electors plot, state investigator says. Meanwhile, Arizona announces its own indictments
LANSING, Mich. — Former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides were co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan's 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney General Dana Nessel's office testified Wednesday, as new details of the effort to prosecute the alleged scheme took shape in two ...Read more
Archdiocese of Chicago sued over priest accused of sexually abusing altar boy at elementary school and parish on Lower West Side in '90s
CHICAGO — The Archdiocese of Chicago is facing a lawsuit in connection with a former priest accused of sexually abusing and exploiting an altar boy at a now-closed elementary school and parish on the city’s Lower West Side.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges that the Rev. John Keehan repeatedly ...Read more
Blinken lands in China for tense talks as US sanctions loom
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China on a mission to press Beijing on thorny issues including its support for Russia and industrial overcapacity, with the threat of new U.S. sanctions looming over his visit.
The top U.S. diplomat will hold talks with senior Communist Party officials in the economic hub of Shanghai on Thursday...Read more
Popular Stories
- Student dies after shooting at Arlington Bowie High School in Texas; 17-year-old suspect in custody
- Haiti's new leaders wanted to take power in the presidential palace. Then reality hit
- 'We will not stop, we will not rest!' USC students join national pro-Palestinian camps
- Connecticut Senate approves bill to regulate artificial intelligence and criminalize 'deepfake' pornography
- Trump is a co-conspirator in Michigan's 2020 false electors plot, state investigator says. Meanwhile, Arizona announces its own indictments