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More Mobile Clinics Are Bringing Long-Acting Birth Control to Rural Areas
By Arielle Zionts October 16, 2024 Twice a month, a 40-foot-long truck transformed into a mobile clinic travels the Rio Grande Valley to provide rural Texans with women’s health care, including birth control. The clinic, called the UniMóvil, is part of the Healthy Mujeres program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.…
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Striking Omni hotel workers return to work Monday after ratifying ‘historic’ new contract
Hundreds of Hilton hotel workers remain on strike. By Beth Treffeisen October 21, 2024 After five days of strikes, workers at the Omni Parker House and the Omni Boston Seaport returned to work Monday morning after ratifying a “historic” new contract with Omni Hotels. Over 600 hotel workers from the two Omni properties have been on strike…
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Texas’ Board of Education is voting on state-developed textbooks next month. View them now
KUT 90.5 | By Becky Fogel Published October 17, 2024 at 2:40 PM CDT The Texas Education Agency on Wednesday released updated instructional materials the State Board of Education is scheduled to vote on in late November. The public can review the latest versions of the materials online. The revisions come about a month after public comment and feedback at…
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Haitian Americans fight back against Trump’s false claims
Sophia Cai October 16, 2024 Haitian Americans across the country are pushing back against former President Trump’s baseless claims about them by protesting, promising to vote and coming together to celebrate their culture. Why it matters: As Trump makes immigration the closing argument of his 2024 campaign — without much regard for whether his claims about immigrants are true — Haitian American communities…
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Trump warns he’ll expel migrants under key Biden immigration programs
BY REBECCA SANTANA Updated 6:33 PM CDT, September 25, 2024 WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, who has made anti-immigration rhetoric a key part of his reelection campaign, warned Wednesday that he would kick out hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have entered the country under two key Biden administration programs if he’s reelected. Speaking to Fox News, Trump…
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What would Donald Trump’s ‘mass deportation’ plan look like?
Shelby Talcott Sep 26, 2024, 5:08am CDT THE NEWS Donald Trump is making increasingly grand promises to enact the “largest deportation program in American history,” asking voters to imagine a presidency in which “illegal aliens” are rounded up en masse for removal, and even some legal immigrants are stripped of their current status and sent…
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Supreme Court weighs veterans’ disability denials, affecting ‘untold numbers’ of vets
The case could have “profound implications for untold numbers of veterans,” challengers said. Maureen Groppe October 16 2024 WASHINGTON − Norman Thornton, a veteran of the first Gulf War, thinks the government downgraded his level of disability from PTSD. Joshua Bufkin was denied post-traumatic stress disorder benefits after leaving the Air Force because doctors didn’t…
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Phoenix Mayor Gallego responds to arrest of disabled, deaf Black man
By: abc15.com staff Posted 12:31 PM, Oct 16, 2024 PHOENIX — Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego has responded to ABC15’s report of a disabled and deaf Black man who was arrested by Phoenix police officers. Tyron McAlpin, a Black man, who is deaf and has cerebral palsy is facing felony aggravated assault and resisting arrest charges after he was repeatedly…
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Racially balanced workplaces may protect employees against cardiovascular disease
Published September 26 In the first study of its kind, researchers from UC Berkeley School of Public Health found that Black workers in Michigan automobile manufacturing plants with a greater number of Black colleagues had better cardiovascular health than Black auto workers who worked in overwhelmingly white plants. The retrospective cohort study, published online in September ahead…
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