Older gamers are feeling left out of the video game space, according to a new study from the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) — a group supporting more than 38 million people over the age of 50. People over 50 make up a significant proportion of gamers, but some feel that developers aren’t taking...
A powerful tornado recently ripped through the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi devastating already vulnerable, lower-income communities. One family who survived the destruction lives in a one-story home and are not sure how they are going to be able to make ends meet, having lost their vehicle in the thunderstorm, and suddenly...
Americans who drink alcohol have endured years of ambiguous studies, some telling them moderate drinking might help them, others saying it will definitely hurt them. So is having a drink with dinner good for our health or bad? After a series of sweeping meta-studies, the latest published in March, science is getting closer to a...
Story at a glance Personal finance site WalletHub released a study ranking the 50 states on three factors -- environmental quality, eco-friendly behaviors and climate change contributions. Environmental quality includes factors like air, water and soil pollution and energy efficiency. Eco-friendly behaviors refers to aspects like the amount of solar panels, number of electric cars...
Should Harvard rename itself “AR-15 University,” if the price is right?
For people in prison, high-quality STEM education provides a direct route to productive and stable livelihoods, as well as a pivotal way to contribute to societal and national well-being.
The Canadian government “would work to provide” access to medical abortion drugs if it is banned in the U.S., an official said in a television interview Thursday. Families Minister Karina Gould said Canada would assist Americans in getting access to abortion medication in line with its national laws if American law were to change. "What...
When legislators practice unlicensed medicine, hastily drafted laws endanger other reproductive services
The NAACP filed a lawsuit against Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) and other members of the government over two pieces of state law which would expand state influence over policing in the capital city of Jackson. Reeves signed the two laws — House Bill 1020 and Senate Bill 2343 — this week. The House bill...
DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrats have watched in dismay as voters in rural and old industrial strongholds say they want more of what the Republican Party is offering, resisting the establishment’s approach to win them back and raising questions about their party’s strategy. One progressive — a suited-up, camera-ready U.S. congressman from California — is...
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. officially announced his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president in 2024 this week and some in the media, as well as the greater Kennedy clan, made it clear they may not be supportive. The Associated Press headlined the announcement this way: “Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches 2024 presidential...
Agricultural achievements have come as the expense of extensive air and water pollution and a changing climate.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has forced out the state’s education director over a teacher training book she called “woke.” Barbara Cooper resigned from her post as director of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education this week after Ivey took issue with a book of guidance Cooper suggested for Pre-K teachers in the state. An...
President Biden declared a natural disaster in Texas due to severe winter storms that affected the state in the beginning of 2023, and ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas. Heavy ice storms rocked central and eastern Texas at the end of January and early...
A man who spent 20 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit is now running for Congress in Southern California. Francisco "Franky" Carrillo was wrongly convicted of committing a 1991 murder at the age of 16 and spent two decades in prison trying to prove his innocence before being exonerated in 2011. Now,...
Young citizens willing to lift up their voices and their votes to bring this country’s practices in line with its principles.
The owner and two employees of a New York midwife practice have been charged with distributing fake vaccine cards, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced. Two nurse midwives at Sage-Femme Midwifery PLLC, one of whom is the owner, and a nurse at the practice face charges that they conspired to defraud the United States by enrolling...
People of color, including Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans, are exposed to more pollution from construction, industry emissions, vehicles and most (for African Americans, ALL) other sources than white Americans.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the House Judiciary Committee on Friday came to an agreement for Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor in the office's criminal investigation of former President Trump, to testify before the panel. The committee subpoenaed Pomerantz as part of its probe into the DA's office that began after Trump predicted...
Heavy fighting continued in Sudan for a sixth day on Friday, even as both the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to a brief three-day truce for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. More than 400 people have been killed and over 3,500 have been injured since fighting broke out last...
Former President Donald Trump is leaning on a network of personal and political relationships to rack up broad congressional support for his 2024 White House bid and undercut his chief Republican rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, before the governor’s campaign formally gets off the ground. The depth and influence of Trump’s retail politicking abilities have...
The Biden administration faces what could be one of its most consequential climate decisions yet as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) weighs how to regulate power plants. The power sector is a major contributor to climate change, making up a quarter of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. The agency is expected to soon propose new regulations that aim...
Acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Billy Nolen announced Friday that he will be stepping down from his leadership post, leaving the spot vacant ahead of increased summer travel. The Wall Street Journal reported that Nolen sent a letter to agency employees saying that he plans to leave his post over the summer, a position...
Democratic lawmakers have come together in support of the Supreme Court order that paused a lower court ruling Friday that would have restricted access to the the common abortion pill mifepristone. The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration Friday in a brief order that will hold back a Texas federal judge's ruling that the Federal...
A Houston man was indicted Friday on federal charges in connection to a series of voicemail threats made to Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-Calif.) office last year. Brian Michael Gaherty, 60, was charged with four counts of making threats in interstate communications as well as four counts of threatening a United States official, according to a...
