It took Leigh Goodmark a while to come around to abolition feminism. Early in her career she believed that the way to address intimate partner violence was to lock up those inflicting harm. But as she ...

Backpage.com’s chief executive has pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy charges In a separate legal case, two founders face charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money; a ...

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TUCSON, ARIZ. — On a Saturday afternoon, Deja Foxx is staging a TikTok Live in her living room. A phone tripod is set up in front of her kitchen table. The frame is centered on a slouchy sofa against ...

State officials and teacher union leaders are reeling after President Donald Trump’s decision Tuesday to freeze over $6 billion in federal K-12 education funding for the upcoming school year — a move ...

A raucous scene unfolded outside the New York City courthouse where a jury Wednesday acquitted Sean “Diddy” Combs of the most serious charges — sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy — against ...

Unemployment rates over the past year have remained largely steady for every group of workers but one: Black women, whose unemployment rates have been rising. For the past three months that increase ...

The bill, which advocates hope will be finalized by the end of the year, is expected to contain a version of Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown’s Expanding Childcare in Rural America Act. The ...

Researchers, advocates and survivors have long preferred the term “image-based sexual abuse” to describe the variety of ways sexually explicit imagery can be weaponized. Often laws use more precise ...

Ten days before the release of her highly anticipated album “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé shared on Instagram that the project began as a result of feeling unwelcome in the country music space. “Because of ...

Parents, you’re not imagining it: The cost of child care is rising. By a lot. The average annual cost of care in 2024 was $13,128, a 29 percent increase since 2020 — outpacing even inflation. That’s ...

After a parent filed a federal complaint against the St. Johns County School District because of its dress code and the ACLU informed the district that the code violated federal law — which prohibits ...