by CNN Wire Article Reprint The Obama administration is stepping up security for some flights headed to the United States from Europe and the Middle East, reflecting heightened concern that terrorists are developing more sophisticated
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Supreme Court: Police Need a Warrant to Search Cell Phone
by April V. Taylor Article Reprint The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in a landmark digital privacy decision concerning police officers’ ability to search a suspect’s cellphone upon arrest. Police officers had previously been able
Read moreTemple professors were paid by private prisons to produce favorable study
by Dr. Byron Price Article Reprint The latest effort by for-profit prison corporations to laud their superiority over publicly-run prisons is supported by two Temple University professors who failed to initially disclose that their research
Read moreL.A. city unions seek $15 minimum wage for workers and contractors
By Emily Alpert Reyes Article Reprint A coalition of city labor unions says it wants Los Angeles to increase the minimum wage for city workers and those employed by city contractors to at least $15
Read moreMore than a thousand teachers and other staff laid off in Chicago
By: Becky Vevea Article Reprint Chicago Public Schools officials told 550 teachers and 600 more school staff Thursday that they’re out of a job.
Read moreEvictions are as bad for Black women as prison is for Black men
In Milwaukee, Black women are only 9.6% of the population, but 30% of the evictions BY MATTHEW DESMOND Article Submission Patrice is, in many ways, typical. A low-income woman, she’s struggling to find affordable housing
Read moreFirst female black student-president at nation’s most expensive prep school is forced to resign after ‘offensive’ photographs of her mocking ‘typical white classmates’ emerge online
Maya Peterson was Lawrenceville School’s first black, female student body president By James King Article Reprint The former black student body president at a pricey New Jersey prep school was forced to resign from her
Read moreCould Drones Finally Expose One Of The Country’s Most Secretive Industries?
By Tara Culp-Ressler Article Reprint Are aerial drones the answer we need to a wave of state laws seeking to criminalize efforts to expose health hazards and inhumane practices on corporate farms? One animal rights
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