Tag: Human welfare
Family of boy killed by officer plans home for at-risk teens
CHICAGO — Family members of a 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer announced plans Wednesday to build a home...
UN warns Tigray faces famine risk if aid isn’t scaled up
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned the Security Council that the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is worsening and “there...
Factory boss defiant as sanctions bite in China’s Xinjiang
AKSU, China — A backlash against reports of forced labor and other abuses of the largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang is taking...
Withdrawal of pandemic welfare fuels poverty in Brazil
SAO PAULO — The pandemic shantytown sprang up virtually overnight when people began using scavenged wooden boards to build shacks on a plot of...
People of color more exposed to heat islands, study finds
In nearly every major city in the U.S., people of color are exposed to more extreme urban heat than white people, a new study...
Judge rejects bid to toss DNA in incapacitated woman’s rape
PHOENIX — A former nurse charged with sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman who later gave birth at a Phoenix long-term care facility has lost...
Wyoming candidate undeterred after teen pregnancy disclosure
GILLETTE, Wyo. — A U.S. House candidate in Wyoming who disclosed that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18 scoffed at the...
Jolie says judge in Pitt divorce won’t let children testify
LOS ANGELES — Angelina Jolie criticized a judge deciding on custody arrangements for her and Brad Pitt's children during their divorce, saying in a...
Lawsuit: Detainees put in Mace-filled cells, denied water
A federal lawsuit filed Monday accuses St. Louis correctional officers of putting jail detainees in a room and spraying so much Mace that they...
US Judge: Saipan casino builder must pay 7 ex-workers $5.4M
HONOLULU — A judge on the U.S. Pacific island of Saipan on Monday ordered a Hong Kong company to pay seven Chinese construction workers...
