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Month: June 2024

White House preps ‘dreamers’ celebration while President Biden eyes new benefits for immigrants

By SEUNG MIN KIM and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will host a White House event next week celebrating an Obama-era directive that offered deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, as his own administration prepares potential new benefits for others without legal status but with long-standing ties in the United

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US Catholic bishops approve outreach to Native Americans and acknowledge boarding school ‘traumas’

By HOLLY MEYER Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. bishops on Friday approved new guidelines for ministering to Indigenous Catholics, a long in-the-works effort to reinvigorate the ministry and assure those communities that they don’t need to feel torn between their Native identity and their Catholic one. “You are both. Your cultural embodiment of

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Sunscreen foundation recalled due to possible mold contamination

By Maya Davis, CNN (CNN) — Las Vegas-based skincare company Suntegrity is recalling nine lots of Impeccable Skin Sunscreen Foundation after tests revealed “higher than acceptable” levels of Aspergillus sydowii mold in some tubes, according to a notice posted on the US Food and Drug Administration’s website Wednesday. No adverse events have been reported, according to the notice. But consumers

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Colombia plans to provide medical treatment to Palestinian children injured in Israel-Hamas war

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A Colombian military hospital would offer medical treatment to Palestinian children injured in the Israel-Hamas war under a plan from the South American country’s Foreign Ministry. The government of President Gustavo Petro announced the plan Thursday. Deputy Minister of Multilateral Affairs Elizabeth Taylor Jay told reporters the children would travel with

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Trump offers CEOs a cut to corporate taxes. Biden’s team touts his support for global alliances

By JOSH BOAK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has told an influential group of CEOs that he would further cut the 21% corporate tax rate to 20%. But President Joe Biden’s chief of staff Jeffrey Zients separately told them that the Democratic incumbent’s emphasis on global alliances would

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California Senate approves ban on requiring schools to notify parents of child’s pronoun change

By SOPHIE AUSTIN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Senate has approved a bill that would ban school districts from requiring teachers to notify parents if their child asks to go by a new pronoun at school. The legislation applies to any policies that require school staff to disclose a student’s

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North Carolina judges grapple with defining ‘fair’ elections in redistricting suit

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina judges are deciding whether a redistricting lawsuit claiming a state constitutional right to “fair” elections can go to trial. On Thursday, a panel of trial judges questioned lawyers for voters who sued over some congressional and legislative district boundaries and for Republican legislative

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