The US Program leads with the principle of racial justice and equity as a fundamental human right providing the foundational, over-arching, and unifying theme for all our work. Our strategic ...

One in 12 children globally faces online sexual abuse: Lancet study Approximately one in 12 children worldwide experienced online sexual abuse in the past year, according to a study published in ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. Lena Schilling, the youngest lawmaker in ...

In 1936, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise co-founded the World Jewish Congress (WJC), together with Nahum Goldmann and others. The World Jewish Congress, American Section, is the affiliate of the WJC in the ...

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For crime-weary New Yorkers, a better life could be just up the road. Six out of the ten safest states in the country are in New England, according to a new Wallethub survey. Vermont, immediately ...

Counties are colored red or blue when the % expected vote reporting reaches a set threshold. This threshold varies by state and is based on patterns of past vote reporting and expectations about ...

As of Monday, 75 cases have been reported in connection to the E. coli outbreak linked to McDonalds Quarter Pounders. One ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A winter storm will affect New York and the surrounding area starting Sunday. From 1 p.m. Sunday to 4 a.m.

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More than a billion people across the world depend on wetlands for their livelihoods – that’s about one in eight people on Earth. The theme for World Wetlands Day is “Wetlands and human ...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization for ... political influence of WHO member states." It also cited the "unfairly onerous payments ...