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The Senate Committee on Women and Children was supposed to hold its last Pogo-related hearing on Tuesday, but the absence of several invited resource persons-mostly citing 'medical reasons' as excuse [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott: U.S. Senators Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced a bipartisan Senate resolution along with 42 [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Connecticut Senator Christopher Murphy: U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 42 of their Senate colleagues in introducing a [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by California Senator Laphonza Butler: Today, Senator Butler joined Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and 42 Senate colleagues in introducing a bipartisan Senate resolution [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by Texas Senator John Cornyn: Today, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), who successfully led the effort in Congress to make Juneteenth a federal [...]

(JURIST) - Portugals Parliament rejectedon Wednesday a bid proposed by the far-right party Chega to charge the countrys president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa with treason over his support for reparation [...]

The Barbados government has halted plans to buy a £3m former plantation from a British Conservative MP whose family profited from slavery. Richard Drax, the MP for South Dorset, owns [...]

Byline: Jonathan Smith and Paul Lashmar The Conservative MP under fire for his ancestors' role in Caribbean slavery is in line for a multimillion-pound payout from the Barbados government. Despite [...]

Byline: Vincent Brown 'Let's get something straight,' the politician told me, 'we are now owning you.' Though this was meant as a warm welcome, hearing it from an eminent state [...]

Byline: Jesse Van Tol Should the U.S. government pay reparations for slavery? That question dominates the long-running discussion about righting centuries of wrongs committed against Black Americans. But there is [...]

Modern slavery is less of a priority under Rishi Sunak than it was under previous Tory governments, the anti-slavery commissioner has warned, as she revealed her budget has been cut [...]

Content Investment Association: Letter to Remuneration Committee Chairs re the IA's Principles of Remuneration FRC: Policy Update - Launch of UK Stewardship Code 2020 review FTSE Women Leaders Review: Achieving [...]

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a meeting on measures to ensure youth employment. Youth priority in the strong social policy of our state. There is constant focus on providing them with [...]

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- The following information was released by the Florida Democratic Party: Today, in a debate on CS/HB 1291, Florida State Representative Alex Andrade insisted that children be taught [...]

London: University of the West of England has issued the following news release: New research from UWE Bristol, and the Universities of Bath and Sussex has found that companies that [...]

Byline: Chandelis Duster and Justin Gamble, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Lawmakers in California have revealed a sweeping set of legislative proposals aimed at providing reparations for state residents who [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa What started with a single question from a voter about the origins of the Civil War has morphed into a sprawling political clash over a monumental event [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield CHARLESTON, S.C. -- In the scarlet-lit backroom of Zen Asian Fusion Restaurant, seven Republican men from the Deep South sat around the dinner table, fuming. The topic [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield CHARLESTON, S.C. - In the scarlet-lit backroom of Zen Asian Fusion Restaurant, seven Republican men from the Deep South sat around the dinner table, fuming. The topic [...]

Byline: Maeve Reston; Hannah Knowles; Meryl Kornfield Former president Donald Trump uses dehumanizing rhetoric to describe undocumented immigrants before largely White audiences. The runaway GOP polling leader says they are [...]

Byline: Jonathan Weisman and Jazmine Ulloa Nikki Haley's avoidance of mentioning slavery as a cause of the conflict, which she walked back on Thursday, threatened to dent her crossover appeal [...]

Nikki Haley's avoidance of mentioning slavery as a cause of the conflict, which she walked back on Thursday, threatened to dent her crossover appeal to independents and moderate Democrats. Prominent [...]

The morning after GOP presidential hopeful (https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/nikki-haley) Nikki Haley sparked widespread mockery for (https://www.thedailybeast.com/nikki-haley-seemingly-forgets-slavery-when-asked-to-name-cause-of-civil-war) failing to mention slavery as the cause of the Civil War, the denizens of Fox News' [...]

Nikki Haley’s avoidance of mentioning slavery as a cause of the conflict, which she walked back on Thursday, threatened to dent her crossover appeal to independents and moderate Democrats. Prominent [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield, Maegan Vazquez and Hannah Knowles NORTH CONWAY, N.H. - Nikki Haley on Thursday scrambled to quell a firestorm that rocked her ascendant presidential campaign, acknowledging the Civil [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield, Maegan Vazquez and Hannah Knowles NORTH CONWAY, N.H. - Nikki Haley on Thursday acknowledged the Civil War was 'about slavery,' after facing swift criticism for making no [...]

Byline: Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent Post-Brexit restrictions on the free movement of workers from the EU have contributed to modern slavery becoming 'a feature' of the care sector in [...]

Byline: RITA TRICHUR; Staff High Liner Foods Inc. learned the hard way about risks lurking in its supply chain. The Nova Scotia-based seafood company, which began scrutinizing its suppliers this [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following news release: This briefing explores what home affairs related announcements the government could make in the King's Speech on 7 November 2023. It [...]

Byline: Ronald G. Shafer As House Republicans meet Wednesday to try to elect a new speaker, the contest appears likely to become bitter, divisive and possibly prolonged. But things would [...]

Byline: Paul Krugman I'm not a historian, but as far as I know, America has never seen anything like the current political craziness. There have been bitter disputes within Congress [...]