Holocaust survivors offered DNA tests to help find family
The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching the DNA Reunion Project, offering DNA testing kits for free through an application on its website.
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Abortion rights advocates say they need more menās voices
If Donovan Atterberry thought about abortion at all as a young man, it was perhaps with some vague discomfort, or a memory of the anti-abortion protesters outside the clinic that...
Pulitzer Prizes award Washington Post for Jan. 6 coverage
The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, an attack on democracy that was...
For Black women, hopes and dreams rest on Biden court choice
When the pressure gets intense, law student Jasmine Marchbanks-Owens likes to wander the hallways of Howard University, examining the faded, framed photos of prominent Black graduates of decades past.
In R. Kelly verdict, Black women see long-overdue justice
For years, decades even, allegations swirled that R&B superstar R. Kelly was abusing young women and girls, with seeming impunity.
Judges block green card denials for immigrants on public aid
Federal judges in three states on Friday temporarily blocked Donald Trump's policy to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps and other government benefits, dealing a...
Historic Andy Ruiz boxing win jolts elation among Mexican Americans
The Madison Square Garden crowd booed when giant screens showed the chubby challenger, Andy Ruiz Jr., walking to the ring as a big underdog to the charismatic, handsome heavyweight champion,...
Travel ban forces Americans to wait years for loved ones
Eight-year-old Mutaz cries when he sees his classmates with their mothers at teacher conferences. His 9-year-old brother, Adel, gets into trouble at school.
“Catch-up for years” as backlogged U.S. immigration courts open
The nation's immigration courts were severely backlogged even before the government shutdown. Now it could take years just to deal with the delays caused by the five-week impasse, attorneys say.
CU Boulder student wins Rhodes Scholar award
The latest crop of U.S. Rhodes scholars has more women than any other single class, and almost half of this yearās recipients of the prestigious scholarship to Oxford University in...