The #ChurchToo Movement Just Scored a Major Victory for Victims of Sexual Abuse
Willow Creek Community Church Senior Pastor Bill Hybels stands before his congregation, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, where he announced his early retirement effective immediately, amid a cloud of misconduct allegations.Mark Black/Daily Herald via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this week, in what is the most significant response to…
Opioid Addiction Among Pregnant Women Has Quadrupled
ozgurdonmaz/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Vermont, 1 in every 20 pregnant women is addicted to opioids when she gives birth. That’s one of several striking stats from a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that finds that opioid addiction among new moms across the…
Read Justice Sotomayor’s Powerful Dissent in the Latest Battle Over the Death Penalty
Jay Mallin/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Billy Ray Irick, a 59-year-old Tennessee death row inmate, is scheduled to die Thursday night for the 1985 rape and murder of seven-year-old Paula Dyer. In February, Irick and dozens of other Tennessee death row inmates filed a lawsuit against the state arguing that…
Argentina’s Senate Votes to Reject Legal Abortion
Supporters of legal abortion comfort each other after senators rejected the bill.Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a highly anticipated vote, Argentinian senators early Thursday rejected a bill that would have legalized abortion for pregnancies no further along than 14 weeks. The vote, which followed 16 hours of…
Worker Charged With Sexually Molesting Eight Children at Immigrant Shelter, New Records Show
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. It includes graphic details of alleged sexual violence against minors. A youth care worker for Southwest Key has been charged with 11 sex offenses after authorities accused him of molesting at least eight unaccompanied immigrant boys over…
A Judge Just Told the Government to Stop Medicating Immigrant Kids Without Consent
Unaccompanied minors sleep in a holding cell at a US Customs and Border Protection processing facility in Brownsville, Texas in 2014. Eric Gay/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to stop medicating detained immigrant children without consent and to release some…