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A prisoner serving a life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary was taken to a local hospital in 2015 where he had to be resuscitated five times after his heart stopped. Benjamin Schreiber was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole after being found guilty of first-degree…
Atatiana Jefferson was fatally shot in her own home in Fort Worth, Texas, by a police officer in October. Her father, Marquis A. Jefferson, died of a heart attack on Saturday, less than a month later. He was taken to Methodist Charlton Medical Center in Dallas on Friday night, the…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a 2020 presidential hopeful, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that female candidates are held to a “different standard” than men. Klobuchar was talking to Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” when she brought up South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. She told Tapper that she…
In Virginia, Loudoun County introduced “diverse classroom libraries” at the start of the school year in elementary and high schools with books about LGBTQ people to increase students’ understanding and improve diversity and inclusion. To activists, it was a victory. For some parents, the books about LGBTQ people are “sexual…
Users of Apple’s new credit card are accusing the company of using lending algorithms that discriminate against women. Financial regulators are now investigating. Software developer David Heinemeier Hansson made his complaints public on Twitter on Nov. 7, saying the credit line Apple offered him was 20 times better than what…
Images of child sexual abuse are not just present on the darknet and other obscure corners of the internet. A New York Times report found that child abusers run rampant on surface web platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon and Apple that struggle to balance privacy and security and only…
Bernie Sanders joined the ranks of other 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls in announcing his support for decriminalizing illegal border crossings. On Thursday, he released a detailed immigration policy that explained what he would do from “Day One” of his presidency, including a moratorium on deportations until an analysis of policies…
For veterans and military spouses, unemployment remains a large issue. In October, the veteran unemployment rate was 3.2%, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Furthermore, 3% of women veterans are unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A 2017 Department of Defense report said a quarter of military…
The U.S. Supreme Court has just heard the arguments of three cases that will determine the applications of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to LGBTQ employment rights. But Aaron Belkin, director of the judicial advocacy group, Take Back the Court has written Justices Brett Kavanaugh and…
Rodney Reed is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 20 in Texas. Advocates including celebrities, clergy and state lawmakers are scrambling to stop his execution, saying he was wrongly convicted of rape and murder in 1998. An all-white jury convicted Reed, a Black man, of the 1996 rape and…
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