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To help rebuilding and recovery efforts, I call on every country to devote 1 percent of its GDP to transform camps into incubators of hope rather than more Gazas. 

A policy advocacy group founded by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) is investing $500,000 into efforts to enshrine abortion rights in the Florida Constitution as a strict six-week ban takes effect in the Sunshine State. "Today, women in Florida will be stripped of nearly all their reproductive rights. An extreme, six-week abortion ban is dangerous,...

The Federal Reserve voted to keep interest rates at a 23-year high as inflation has edged up and the labor market remains strong, likely pushing potential rate cuts even later into the year. Interest rates will remain at a range of 5.25 percent to 5.5 percent, where they have been since last July, the Federal...

Air travel is risky business.

Climate change is pushing some New York City neighborhoods into dozens of nearly daylong blackouts per year, a new study has found. Large swaths of the state’s principal towns and cities faced repeated, protracted and dangerous weather-driven power outages between 2017 and 2020, according to findings published Wednesday in the Public Library of Science. The risk...

President Biden will speak next week on Capitol Hill about the rise of antisemitism, tackling an issue that has been intertwined with ongoing protests on college campuses over Israel's war in Gaza. Biden will deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's annual Days of Remembrance ceremony, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters....

Delegates within the United Methodist Church voted to repeal their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy Wednesday, showing overwhelming support that contrasts with decades of controversy over the issue. The church voted 692-51 at their General Conference to remove a rule that bans “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as a minister, The...

The Grammys on the Hill took aim at AI in the arts during its annual ceremony on Tuesday, in which is also honored Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for their work protecting musical artists. The event, part of the "biggest week for music in Washington," saw lawmakers sing hymns, applaud, crack jokes...

Sam's Club is now using artificial intelligence and a new camera system to scan customers' receipts at the door, instead of having employees check them.

Many of these programs have the full support of police, who are relieved to not have to act as social workers or counselors, which they aren’t trained to be.

Nearly 4 in 10 local election officials experienced threats, harassment or abuse while on the job, according to a new poll. In the survey, published Wednesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, 38 percent of local election workers reported "threats, harassment or abuse," while 54 percent said they are concerned about the safety of their...

In some states, teachers are barely making enough to be considered middle class.

NEW YORK — In 2011, Stormy Daniels’s manager phoned a lawyer to complain that “some jerk” had called her up threatening to sue over a blog post claiming the porn actress slept with Donald Trump. “I hate to ask it this way,” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said Tuesday while...

Violence erupted between police and student protesters Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with hundreds arrested in New York. The New York City Police Department went through a second-story window at a Columbia building that had been seized by demonstrators and cleared out the protesters,...