CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Vice President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called attention to the Chicago teachers’ strike at an event for Teacher Union Day in New York on Sunday. Biden spoke Sunday at an event organized by the United Federation of Teachers, the union representing New York…
This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and is republished with permission. Claims of a sex abuse cover-up and a failure to adequately protect women from sexual predation by a bipolar monk have surfaced in the diocese of disgraced bishop Charles Drennan. Bishop Drennan had his resignation accepted by the Vatican earlier this…
On the 23rd day of Ramadan, students sat in the Schmitt Academic Center pit listening to speeches during a celebratory iftar dinner — speeches questioning how to support students that feel unsafe on campus, DePaul’s need for reform and how they felt their activism led to DePaul professor Jason Hill’s…
After joining the Islamist group, he had travelled to India and is in jail there now following his arrest in Kolkata four months ago, Bangladesh Police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit says. A Dhaka court in January this year sentenced Zahirul, a former manager with a securities firm, to…
When she went to help, he produced the knife. The woman then managed to grab the knife and believed that she stabbed him, before running to safety. Blood at the scene led police to believe her attacker was injured before he fled. “I think he was on a mission and…
Thanks to the “Back to Sleep” campaign launched in the ‘90s, almost all of us seem to know that the safest position for babies to sleep is on their backs, but there are other safe sleep practices that should become more commonplace, too, according to a new study. The American…
Do you ever wonder where saints come from? Sometimes they can seem so otherworldly, we might think they fell from the sky, or sprang out of holes in the ground, halo and all. We can forget that saints were not born holy, but were formed in holiness—by family, by clergy,…
In this Toronto Sun file photo, which was taken on June 12, 2017, Toronto Police Const. Alphonso Carter walked the halls of Cardinal Newman High School greeting and talking with students. Carter worked as a school resource officer at the high school until the Toronto District School Board scrapped the…
Personal duress alarms (PDA) and security cameras could help people experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV) stay safe in their homes, according to UNSW research. The Evaluation of the technology trial (Keeping Women Safe in Their Homes) report by the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) found that the provision of…
BIRCH RUN (WJRT) (10/20/19) – Controversy at a Birch Run school forces one teacher to call on her union. The teacher says her district administration refuses to give her reasonable time to pump breast milk at school.The teacher is requesting an extra fifteen minutes in the morning to pump, but…
