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Ukraine's Zelenskyy meets Greta Thunberg and others to address the war's effect on ecology

Ukraine's Zelenskyy meets Greta Thunberg and others to address the war's effect on ecology

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Thursday with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and prominent European figures who are forming a working group to address ecological damage from the 16-month-old Russian inv
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Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling leaves colleges looking for new ways to promote diversity

Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling leaves colleges looking for new ways to promote diversity

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through higher education with a landmark decision that struck down affirmative action and left colleges across the nation searching for new ways to promote student diversity.
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Lack of B.C. transplant surgeons means donated kidneys are sent elsewhere: doctors

Lack of B.C. transplant surgeons means donated kidneys are sent elsewhere: doctors

VANCOUVER — Sukinder Mangat has been waiting 11 years for a kidneytransplant while enduring dialysis three times a week as part of a routine that leaves him exhausted, worried and unable to work.
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Tennessee law changes starting July 1 will restrict trans health care and fund more school safety

Tennessee law changes starting July 1 will restrict trans health care and fund more school safety

NASHVILLE, Tenn.
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US judge temporarily blocks Mississippi law on state police permits for some protests

US judge temporarily blocks Mississippi law on state police permits for some protests

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that requires permission from state police for protests or other gatherings near state government buildings in the capital city of Jackson. U.S.
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Biden talks Supreme Court and Russia but also media and McCain in rare network interview

Biden talks Supreme Court and Russia but also media and McCain in rare network interview

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden rarely gives network interviews, and when he sat down in the MSNBC studio on Thursday, it came at an especially busy time, with the Supreme Court having just overturned the use of affirmative action in college ad
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Wall Street execs host Biden fundraisers as president closes out an end-of-quarter campaign blitz

Wall Street execs host Biden fundraisers as president closes out an end-of-quarter campaign blitz

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden closed out an end-of-quarter campaign blitz Thursday with a pair of Manhattan fundraisers hosted by Wall Street power brokers, a funding push designed to put Biden on strong financial footing for a 2024 White House
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Double whammy of new climate policies in Atlantic Canada fuel political battle

Double whammy of new climate policies in Atlantic Canada fuel political battle

OTTAWA — There is a clash of wills growing in Atlantic Canada over two new climate policies that take effect this weekend, with premiers demanding Ottawa put the brakes on the plan and the federal government accusing them of playing politics with the
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California's historic work on possible Black reparations moves to the Legislature

California's historic work on possible Black reparations moves to the Legislature

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Members of California's Black reparations task force handed off their historic two-year report to state lawmakers Thursday, beginning the next chapter in the long struggle to compensate the descendants of slavery.
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Tennessee court rules man who received clemency in Virginia still can't register to vote

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a man who sought to register to vote in the state after receiving clemency for a crime committed decades ago in Virginia.
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