Today the Supreme Court ruled that parents must be given the option to opt their young children out of LGBT readings in Maryland, at least while the case is ongoing. The case concerned a new curriculum adopted in 2022 for prekindergarten through the fifth grade by the Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland’s largest school system…...
Sally Nabil BBC World Service Reporting fromQandil Mountains, Iraq MUSTAFA OZER/AFP via Getty Images) When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end its decades-long insurgency against Turkey, Leila hoped she might soon be reunited with her son. Three years ago, the former sandwich seller left home to...
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. When immigration agents raided a fast-fashion warehouse a mile from Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles earlier this month, the tension in the school was palpable. That...
Divya Talwar & Tammi Walker BBC Tassie Weaver says she was treated like “a hysterical woman” by a midwife When Tassie Weaver went into labour at full term, she thought she was hours away from holding her first child. But, by the time she was giving birth, she knew her son had died. Doctors had...
BBC Listen to this article on BBC Sounds We are driving at speed through the green hills of rural Hertfordshire. Through the passenger seat window, large elegant houses flash by. Each front lawn is neat, each hedgerow well-kept. It looks like England from a storybook – but this part of the country is actually on...
AFP via Getty Images The plane crashed shortly after takeoff in a residential neighbourhood in the city of Ahmedabad For Mistry Jignesh, 72 hours feel like an eternity. Since Thursday evening, Mr Jignesh and his family have been doing the rounds of the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, trying to find details of his 22-year-old niece...
A black box has been found at the site of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, India’s civil aviation minister said on Friday. The flight data recorder was recovered within 28 hours by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu confirmed. All but one of the 242 people on the London-bound...
“Maybe he’ll call me in two-three days?” Imtiaz Ali’s brother Javed and his family were on the Air India flight that crashed in India’s Ahmedabad city on Thursday. But until he sees his brother’s body, Mr Ali says, he won’t believe he has died. Mr Ali was among dozens of people the BBC met in...
Imtiyaz Ali Sayed Imtiyaz Ali Sayed (far right) with his brother Javed, Javed’s wife, and children before Thursday’s flight Imtiyaz Ali Sayed refuses to grieve. Not when the news first broke – that his younger brother Javed, along with Javed’s wife and two children, had perished in the devastating Air India crash in Ahmedabad on...
Catherine Doyle BBC News NI Reuters Officers were attacked with petrol bombs, heavy masonry, bricks, fireworks and a hatchet in Ballymena Families hid in attics and wardrobes during violent disorder in Ballymena, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable has said. This comes following three days of violence in Ballymena, and some other...
Joel Gunter Reporting from Bucha, Ukraine BBC Tatyana Popvytch’s son was taken to Russian. “He is so vulnerable,” she said. “I worry that he will lose his sanity there.” Tatyana Popovytch had contacted every agency she could think of. She had walked every step her son Vladislav could have taken after the Russians opened fire...
Louise Fewster & Sabbiyah Pervez BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Investigations Bereaved mother says domestic abuse review was ‘torturous’ Just 1% of reviews into domestic abuse-related deaths are being completed in the recommended time, BBC research suggests. Home Office guidance says these reviews, which make recommendations to help prevent people being killed by partners or family...
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Rebekah Wilson BBC News NI PA Media Four crew and 25 passengers were killed when the helicopter crashed in June 1994 Families of those killed in an RAF Chinook helicopter crash in 1994 have said they are launching legal action against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for not ordering a public inquiry. Four crew and...
Jonathan Morris BBC News, South West PA Media The council is looking after 848 children with just 208 fostering families Devon County Council is to vote on a new support package for foster carers amid a growing shortage of families. The proposals, due to be discussed on 23 May, include council tax relief, increased allowances,...