In a 7-2 ruling on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court voted in favour of Masterpiece Cakeshop, the bakery that denied service to a same-sex couple in Colorado. It was the court’s decision that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had been hostile to the business owner Jack Phillips’ ‘religious beliefs,’ and
Recently, there has been a myriad of news stories where racial bias lead to the police being called on innocent black people. It’s important that these stories be heard, and that the black men and women who lived through them are given the opportunity to tell them. Additionally, it’s imperative
Teachers in West Virginia began what has become a five-day strike on Thursday, February 22. The strike is a protest against the stagnant and inadequate teacher and public worker salaries in the state. According to the National Education Association, West Virginia ranked 48th in the country for teacher pay in
U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zink, has proposed the next step in developing the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The program will allow oil exploration in previously banned pockets of the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific coasts. According to Zink, the drafted plan includes 25 of
There is a hidden public health crisis going on in prisons across the United States. A study by the American Journal of Public Health has shown that inmates suffer from foodborne illness at a rate of 45 per 100,000 people annually, a rate five times higher than the general population.
The number of journalists killed worldwide on account of their work has gone down once again in 2017. However, journalists in Mexico faced a particularly deadly year. Outside of conflict zones, Mexico was the deadliest location for journalists. It has been reported by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CJP) that
The future of free speech and dissent is being put at risk by the District of Columbia’s Superior Court in what has come to be known as the J20 trial. The first trial group is a small representation of the almost 200 people that were blockaded into a corner by
Palestinians have taken to the streets in large numbers to protest the recent decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Water cannons, tear gas, and rubber bullets were used to clear protestors from the
Frustrations over upcoming election results in Honduras turned violent on Friday, December 1, causing twelve injuries to civilians according to police reports. Tear gas was deployed to shut down protests that occurred at multiple locations, such as outside the vote counting centre in Tegucigalpa. A curfew was put in place
In a new report from the LGBTQ advocacy group, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), 2017 is now on the record as the deadliest year the transgender community has had in the past decade. Due to the fact that many victims of violent crimes often go unrecorded as being transgender, the numbers
When Hurricane Irma ripped through the Florida coast on Sunday September 10, it destroyed homes, downed trees, and displaced many people. The storm also shed light on one of the most overlooked problems with U.S. urban real estate, which is that almost always it is the poor who occupy properties
On Tuesday, November 7, a dangerous cloud of pollutants surrounded the city of New Delhi. Air quality had been noticeably bad in the days leading up to Tuesday, but that’s become a normal occurrence in New Delhi. Air pollution was so thick on Tuesday the city had to halt all
Yemeni health officials have reported that on Wednesday November 1 an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition killed 25 civilians on a busy Northern Yemen street. The coalition is currently attempting to influence outcomes of the Yemeni Civil War, and before the incident had already been included on a United Nations
On Thursday October 26th President Donald Trump directed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency. The directive from President Trump itself does not appropriate funds to the epidemic, but according to CNN, white house officials have said that the order will
The people of Catalonia held an independence referendum October 1, 2017. The Spanish Government declared the vote unconstitutional and sent Spanish police into Catalonia to stop the vote. As Catalan citizens tried to vote, police raided polling stations firing rubber bullets into crowds of people and dragged innocent voters out
