ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families over a span of 150 years, made to live in boarding schools across the U.S. that were run by the federal government and churches in an effort to force assimilation. “It was a national […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — David Berry and Morgan Helquist grew up in Rochester, New York, without knowing they were each other’s half-siblings. It was only when Berry, now 37 and living in Miami, took a DNA test several years ago that he began to unravel his biological history. He […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Detroit 102, Philadelphia 94 Atlanta 131, Cleveland 107 Milwaukee 120, Brooklyn 119 (OT) Chicago 135, LA Clippers 130 (OT) Utah 122, LA Lakers 109 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE NY Islanders 5, Columbus 2 Carolina 4, Montreal […]
Gary Hershorn, Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Police are seeking a suspect in an assault on a New York City subway train that is being investigated as a hate crime after the assailant allegedly used an anti-gay slur. The New York Police Department recently released video and images of the attack, […]
Justin Sullivan, Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Skippy Foods announced a voluntary recall of some peanut butter products due to the possibility that a limited number of jars may contain small fragment of stainless steel from a piece of manufacturing equipment, according to a statement released by the Food and Drug […]
Stocktrek Images, Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly two months after the unexplained death of Navy SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen, his mother broke her silence, saying she wants to prevent another family from experiencing the same type of tragedy. “I wake up every night thinking of him, thinking of how […]
Jeff Mccollough / EyeEm (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday that starting April 11 people applying for U.S. passports will be able to select “X” to mark their gender in a move designed to accommodate nonbinary, intersex and gender non-conforming individuals. “The Department of State has reached […]
Watchara Phomicinda/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images (RIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif.) — Top officials in California’s Riverside County said this week that they continue to be frustrated in their efforts to find out why social services systems have “harmed” some of the 13 Turpin children who were rescued in 2018 from captivity […]
Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department has charged nine anti-abortion protesters with conspiring to obstruct access to a women’s reproductive health facility in Washington, D.C., in October 2020, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday afternoon. Prosecutors say Lauren Handy, Jonathan Darnel, Jay Smith, Paula Harlow, Jean Marshall, John […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (BOISE, Idaho) — Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to reverse Idaho’s new abortion law. The law bans abortions once cardiac activity in a fetus is detected, which happens at approximately six weeks of pregnancy. Many women are unaware at six weeks that they are […]
