Tag: Social affairs
Biden launches community corps to boost COVID vaccinations
WASHINGTON — Seeking to overcome vaccine hesitancy, the Biden administration is unveiling a coalition of community, religious and celebrity partners to promote COVID-19 shots.
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Fake German heiress taken into US custody, faces deportation
NEW YORK — U.S. immigration authorities said Thursday they have detained Anna Sorokin, the con artist who passed herself off as a wealthy German...
Catholic women’s groups protest Vatican’s gay union stance
BERLIN — Five Catholic women's organizations in German-speaking areas have released an open letter calling for the Vatican to reverse its position that priests...
Holcomb signs police reform, school funding bills into law
INDIANAPOLIS — Bills aimed at increasing police accountability and ensuring Indiana’s public schools receive full funding for all students during the coronavirus pandemic were...
Pink cake on canals: Amsterdam celebrates same-sex weddings
AMSTERDAM — A huge inflatable pink cake with candles spouting rainbow flames glided through the Amsterdam canals Thursday as the Dutch capital celebrated the...
Coin firm pays it forward after Georgia man paid in pennies
MARIETTA, Ga. — A global company has stepped in to solve quite a “coinundrum” for a Georgia man.
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UK: Black adviser quits government in wake of racism report
LONDON — The most senior Black adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned, the government said Thursday, the day after a report...
Players hear ‘a lot of talk’ from Emmert about Title IX, NIL
A trio of men's basketball players asked NCAA President Mark Emmert during a video call Thursday to abide by, and enforce, Title IX gender...
In AP survey, ADs raise worries about women’s college sports
INDIANAPOLIS — To hear many of those in charge of Division I programs tell it, the state of play for women's sports could get...
George Soros to give $500M to Bard College in New York
NEW YORK — Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has committed $500 million to a private liberal arts college in New York, which the school called...
