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Byline: Sean Collins Walsh Oct. 24Game on. City Councilmember Mark Squilla on Thursday introduced 13 pieces of legislation that, if approved, would allow the 76ers to build a new arena [...]

Byline: Abbey Soukup May 17Days ahead of Sunday's Colorado College commencement, pro-Palestinian protests on campus have come to a halt as students dismantled an encampment Wednesday afternoon. The fenced-in encampment [...]

Byline: Ellie Rushing Mar. 10For the seventh year, Philadelphia activist Jamal Johnson laced up his black Nikes and began his 150-mile trek to Washington, D.C., to call on the nation's [...]

Byline: Nitsan Shafir Mar. 1Protestors against the judicial reform have declared today as 'National Disruption Day' as the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee discusses, and has already passed the [...]

Byline: DAN SHINGLER If you talk to cops, the people they police, the people they protect, the people who employ and manage them, even the people who protest them, two [...]

Byline: Jeremy Roebuck Jan. 30A prominent Catholic antiabortion activist accused of shoving a Planned Parenthood volunteer was acquitted Monday of charges that he instigated the encounter to intimidate workers at [...]

Byline: John Donegan Jan. 16Activists from farming communities across the state are inbound for Sacramento on Wednesday to make public comments and protest new pesticide regulations they believe don't properly [...]

Byline: Hannah Black Jul. 1CHEYENNE Supporters of abortion rights flocked to the front of the Wyoming State Capitol Thursday evening, eager to join with other pro-choice residents to protest the [...]

Byline: Maria Weldali May 12AMMAN Journalists and activists in Jordan on Wednesday gathered in front of Al Jazeera's headquarters in Amman to protest the killing of veteran Al Jazeera reporter [...]

Byline: Jessica Piper Mar. 3AUGUSTA, Maine A bill in the Maine Legislature aims to prevent anti-abortion protesters from demonstrating directly outside of clinics, while avoiding legal challenges that threatened a [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan Oct. 26This week, advocates from across Pennsylvania are set to rally in Harrisburg in support of legalizing syringe service programs in the commonwealth, where the public health [...]

Byline: Emma Epperly and Sydney Brown Jul. 23A group of 20 sheriffs and police chiefs expressed concern at a news conference Thursday about police reform legislation they say will hurt [...]

Byline: Rana Husseini Feb. 2AMMAN A group of activists earlier this week handed Health Minister Nathir Obeidat a petition signed by 12,000 individuals demanding the inclusion of persons with disabilities [...]

Byline: John Lantigua Dec. 01--WASHINGTON _ Spurred by the Ferguson, Mo. police shooting and public unrest, President Barack Obama is calling for $75 million in federal spending to get 50,000 [...]

Byline: Mohammad Ghazal Sept. 16--AMMAN -- Strengthening Jordan's internal front through rule of law and equality among citizens is the main pillar for achieving the desired reforms and restoring citizens' [...]

Sept. 15--AMMAN -- Activists on Sunday called for amending legislation related to the rights of foreign workers in order to protect them from becoming victims of human trafficking. In a [...]

Byline: Rana Husseini Aug. 26--AMMAN -- The Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW) on Monday sent a memo to the government demanding the establishment of creches in public sector institutions. [...]

Byline: Jan Hefler June 16--Chris Goldstein sees momentum in the battle to legalize marijuana. As a paid blogger with NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and [...]

Byline: Jan Hefler June 16--Chris Goldstein sees momentum in the battle to legalize marijuana. As a paid blogger with NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and [...]

Byline: Peter Roper June 15--Alex Lucero-Mugatu surprised political observers in 2010 by forcing better-known City Councilwoman Vera Ortegon into a primary race for the state Senate District 3 seat. This [...]

Byline: Jan Hefler June 15--Chris Goldstein sees momentum in the battle to legalize marijuana. As a paid blogger with NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) and [...]

Byline: Roger Phillips June 14--STOCKTON -- Heang Lach, a Stockton woman burdened by the psychic scars of an unspeakably tragic past, has become one of the rallying points in a [...]

Byline: Khaled Neimat May 16--AMMAN -- Foreign funding for civil society organisations (CSOs) is a major challenge that threatens security and stability, but the best reaction is to monitor it [...]

Byline: Laila Azzeh April 17--AMMAN -- The difference between child discipline and abuse remains a grey area under the current Penal Code, putting children's well-being at risk, experts said earlier [...]

Byline: Gaelle Sundelin Dec. 12--AMMAN -- The beginning of Lower House deliberations over the new juveniles law in two weeks will be an occasion for Jordan to present 'a great [...]

Byline: Courtenay Edelhart Nov. 14--Activists in Kern County have collected 17,244 signatures in hopes of qualifying a ballot measure that would repeal a controversial new law passed to protect transgendered [...]

Byline: Peter Roper Sept. 07--Since early voting began in the Tuesday recall election for state Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo, 39 voters have registered to vote the same day they cast [...]

Byline: Kate Giammarise July 12--HARRISBURG -- Calling the state's yet-to-be implemented voter ID law a thinly veiled attempt at voter suppression, more than 100 people rallied in the state Capitol [...]

Byline: Christopher Cousins July 08--AUGUSTA, Maine -- A group of mothers who converged Monday on the State House to urge enactment of a law that would prevent the use of [...]

July 07--AMMAN -- Two Islamist activists were reportedly detained by security forces late last week after attending a debate on the new amendments to the Press and Publications Law, according [...]

Byline: Judy Benson June 16--The last time Allen Longendyke became politically active, young men his age were being sent to war in Vietnam and he joined the movement in protest. [...]

Byline: Areej Abuqudairi June 14--AMMAN -- Women's rights activists on Thursday drafted a memorandum proposing amendments to the Personal Status Law and demanding the enforcement of existing legislation related to [...]

Byline: Hani Hazaimeh June 09--AMMAN -- Online media stakeholders and press freedom activists on Saturday called on the government to retract its decision to block unlicensed news websites, describing the [...]

Byline: Areej Abuqudairi April 30--AMMAN -- Activists and civil society groups warned that the practice of early marriage persists despite an amendment to the Personal Status Law in 2002, which [...]

Byline: Tom Bell April 11--AUGUSTA -- Gun rights activists showed up in force at the State House on Thursday to support a bill that would overturn a 96-year-old Maine law [...]

Byline: Christopher Cousins March 09--WISCASSET, Maine -- About 150 gun rights activists from all corners of Maine gathered in Wiscasset Saturday to protest against bills proposed in the Legislature around [...]

Byline: Dara Kam March 05--TALLAHASSEE -- A well-organized coalition of students carrying signs and chanting greeted lawmakers at the start of the 60-day legislative session Tuesday morning, urging them to [...]

Byline: Chris McDaniel Jan. 20--About 40 members of the Colorado River Tea Party gathered together Saturday to celebrate and promote the Second Amendment as part of National Gun Appreciation Day. [...]

Byline: Jan Hefler Jan. 16--A Superior Court judge in Burlington County sentenced a nationally known marijuana activist to two years' probation and more than $3,400 in fines on Wednesday for [...]

Byline: Samara Kalk Derby Jan. 14--Those advocating for marijuana legalization say that despite the Republican-controlled state Legislature, the time is good to lobby for their cause. 'The issue is fresh [...]

Byline: Tom Troy Nov. 22--Political activist WilliAnn Moore on Wednesday defended her efforts to deliver votes from the regional jail at Stryker to Toledo, even as a Republican member of [...]

Byline: Laila Azzeh Oct. 10--AMMAN -- Although a de facto moratorium has been in place since 2006, freezing capital punishment is not a guarantee that Jordan will not return to [...]

Byline: Clara Ritger July 25--HARRISBURG -- Hundreds of people from across Pennsylvania took their anger over the state's new voter identification law to the Capitol steps Tuesday, saying the law [...]