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Washington Post Workers Plan Strike to Pressure Bezos on Contract
More than 700 unionized staffers of The Washington Post made a request of readers on Wednesday: For 24 hours starting on Thursday, December 7, they said, "please do not engage with any Washington Post...
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Texas Approves Abortion Only After Woman Sues to Prove Medical Emergency
Reproductive rights groups expressed relief Thursday that one woman in Texas was permitted to get abortion care after a Travis County judge granted a temporary restraining order to circumvent the...
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Critics Say Biden Plan to Cut Drug Costs Too Friendly to Big Pharma
While welcoming the White House's willingness to tackle pharmaceutical companies' patent abuse and high prescription drug prices, progressive critics argued Thursday that U.S. President Joe Biden must...
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Texas Supreme Court Blocks Ruling Allowing Woman to Get Abortion
Reproductive justice groups on Friday night said the Texas Supreme Court and Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton were "directly endangering" a pregnant women who recently received news that her...
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EU Deal on AI Act Is 'Missed Opportunity' to Ban Mass Surveillance, Say...
Privacy advocates on Saturday said the AI Act, a sweeping proposed law to regulate artificial intelligence in the European Union whose language was finalized Friday, appeared likely to fail at...
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'Horrifying Precedent': Penn President Resigns Amid Right-Wing Campus Speech...
Professors at the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday were joined by rights advocates in condemning the attacks that forced university president Liz Magill to resign days after she testified before...
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Children of Jailed Women's Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Accept Her Nobel...
An empty chair sat on the stage at the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway on Sunday, symbolizing the absence of the rights activist who was being honored: Narges Mohammadi, who is...
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DC Belmarsh Tribunal Urges Biden to Drop Assange Charges
Seeking to pressure the Biden administration into dropping charges against jailed Australian WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, human rights and press freedom defenders gathered in Washington, D.C....
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Special Counsel Asks SCOTUS to Rule on Trump Jan. 6 Case
The special counsel for two criminal probes targeting former President Donald Trump, Jack Smith, on Monday asked the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court to effectively decide whether the federal election...
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In Win for LGBTQ+ Youth, Supreme Court Rejects 'Conversion Therapy' Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a lawsuit challenging Washington state's ban on the harmful practice of so-called "conversion therapy" for minors, a move welcomed by LGBTQ+ rights...
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After Court Fight, Kate Cox Flees Texas for Abortion
After the Texas Supreme Court blocked a judge's order enabling Kate Cox to terminate a pregnancy due to the fetus having a fatal condition, the 31-year-old Dallas resident has fled the state for...
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Dems Press Biden Admin to Expand Student Debt Relief Plan
Seven members of Congress on Monday sounded the alarm about the Biden administration's evolving student debt cancellation plan and called on U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to use his...
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UAW Chief Says Autoworkers Will 'Run Through a Brick Wall' for Better Life
Citing automakers' "aggressive anti-union campaigns," nonunion employees organizing with the United Auto Workers on Monday announced unfair labor practices charges against three major international...
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After Texas Abortion Ruling, 'Make No Mistake—This Is the America the GOP Wants'
The Texas Supreme Court's ruling late Monday, in which the all-Republican panel said Dallas resident Kate Cox could not obtain an abortion despite a lethal fetal diagnosis, did not stop the...
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SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case That Could Limit Abortion Pill Access
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear consolidated cases about expanded access to the abortion medication mifepristone, setting the stage for a potentially devastating ruling in the midst...
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Biden Reportedly Open to Attacking Immigrant Rights to Secure Israel/Ukraine Aid
Faith-based and civil society groups on Tuesday condemned reports that the Biden administration, in ongoing negotiations with Republicans over a military aid package, has signaled a willingness to...
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'Groundbreaking' Legal Action Demands EPA Finally Ban Glyphosate
Citing research from the U.S. government's own National Institutes of Health, a coalition of environmental and farmworkers groups said Wednesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is out of...
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German Group Won't Present Arendt Prize to Masha Gessen Over Gaza Essay
A left-wing German political foundation said Wednesday that it will no longer give a prestigious award to Masha Gessen over an essay the Russian American journalist wrote drawing parallels between the...
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EU Agrees on Corporate Rules to Put 'People Before Profits'—But Are They Enough?
Despite some loopholes, global campaigners on Thursday still celebrated European Union policymakers' agreement to establish rules requiring large corporations to identify and address their negative...
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Rights Groups Demand Justice for Migrant Shipwreck Off Greek Coast
Six months after a boat carrying 750 migrants and asylum-seekers capsized off the coast of Pylos, Greece, two international human rights organizations said Thursday that Greek authorities have failed...
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