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Month: July 2021

Police officers speak to Black drivers with less respect than White drivers, study finds

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Police officers conduct themselves differently during traffic stops with Black and White drivers, even down to the subtlest of details, new research suggests. A study from the American Psychological Association published Monday finds that police officers exhibit less warmth and respect in their voices when talking to Black drivers than they

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Attorney General Garland restores discretion for immigration judges that was stripped under Trump

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a ruling Thursday restoring discretion to immigration judges by allowing them to administratively close cases, a move that could prove significant in chipping away at the more than million case backlog facing immigration courts. Thursday’s ruling would allow immigration judges to put cases on hold or

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California Legislature approves $35 million plan for nation’s 1st state-funded guaranteed income program

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The California Legislature has approved the nation’s first state-funded guaranteed income program. The $35 million plan, approved Thursday, will fund local programs that will provide monthly cash payments to young adults who recently left foster care and pregnant people. The local programs will set the monthly amount and there will be

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Surgeon general warns Covid misinformation is ‘serious public threat’

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy warned in a new advisory that health misinformation is “a serious threat to public health,” as administration officials grow increasingly concerned about misleading claims about coronavirus vaccines. Murthy appeared at Thursday’s White House press briefing to discuss the newly-released 22-page advisory. (You can watch it in

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Lebanon’s Hariri steps down as prime minister-designate pushing crisis-ridden country further into uncertainty

By Tamara Qiblawi, Ghazi Balkiz and Ben Wedeman, CNN Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has stepped down nearly nine months after he was tasked with forming the crisis-ridden country‘s next government. On Thursday, Hariri told reporters that President Michel Aoun had not accepted his latest Cabinet lineup less than 24 hours after the three-time prime

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