As a queer and out youth‚ Shae Ross was alarmed when she heard that conservative groups were organizing in her community to ban books dealing with sexuality‚ gender and race. So she and her friends got organized themselves‚ and helped persuade their school board to make it much harder to remove books and other materials from their libraries and classrooms. Ross‚ an 18-year-old senior in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington‚ is glad to see that her governor and leaders in several other...

U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria faced two separate rocket and explosive drone attacks in less than 24 hours‚ Iraqi security sources and U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday‚ the first reported after a near three-month pause. At least one armed drone was launched at the Ain al-Asad air base that hosts U.S. troops in the western Iraqi province of Anbar‚ a U.S. official said. That followed five rockets fired from northern Iraq towards U.S. forces at a base in Rumalyn in remote northeastern...

Students at Columbia University have been instructed that classes have shifted to virtual or hybrid amid ongoing safety concerns stemming from anti-Israel protests. The new guidelines said all courses on the Morningside main campus have moved to hybrid learning &;quot;until the end of each school’s Spring 2024 semester.&;quot; &;quot;Safety is our highest priority as we strive to support our students’ learning and all the required academic operations‚&;quot; the school's Provost Angela Olinto wrote in...

Nikol Pashinyan‚ the Armenian prime minister facing four days of protests against his decision to hand four villages to Azerbaijan‚ has urged Armenians to recognise that the way the issue is handled will determine the viability of the future peace process with its neighbour. In an interview with British journalists in his office‚ Pashinyan‚ the leader of Armenia’s velvet revolution in 2018‚ said the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan “need to convert the theoretical peace agenda...

China is taking a page out of the U.S. historic playbook by flexing its economic and military muscles in the Western Hemisphere‚ with the goal of pulling U.S. neighbors to its side. New documents show that Beijing appears to be attempting to establish its own satellite state in the Caribbean. The U.S. has long reigned supreme in the Western Hemisphere since the signing of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823‚ but China has been &;quot;exploiting a fragile security environment and taking advantage...

The number of Americans struggling to put enough food on the table for themselves and their families has been growing in recent years‚ reaching a rate of 12.8 percent of households in 2022‚ according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This increase is now likely to pose a thorny problem for Joe Biden as he runs for reelection in November‚ especially as inflation remains higher than expected—though far below its peak in June 2022. There were about 17...

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