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In the 1950s, thousands of Native American children were placed in Mormon homes for 'racial assimilation.' Now, experts fear an upcoming Supreme Court ruling could allow that to happen again.
In 1954, the Church of Latter-day Saints placed Navajo children in Mormon homes to teach them to be…
Yoonji Han
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Emergency monthly checks for parents could turn permanent under Senate Democrats' push
The House stimulus would give families a monthly check of $250 or $300 per child starting on July 1…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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SC takes note of COVID-19 infection among children in TN shelter home, seeks report
"We direct the Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, State of Tamil Nadu and secretary t…
PTI
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Odisha forms panels to track adverse events in Covid-19 vaccine programme
Bhubaneswar, Dec 5 (IANS) The Odisha government has formed committees to track possible adverse eve…
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Urgent need to increase share of budget of WCD Ministry: Parl panel
"It is noted by the Committee that only 24 districts have functional DLCWs so far. Of the most bac…
PTI
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Plea in SC for proper treatment of COVID-positive minor girls of Kanpur shelter home
Bhat has sought a direction to the Centre to issue an advisory to all Child Welfare Committees to …
PTI
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The Supreme Court could keep moving the country to the right in a new term featuring major cases on affirmative action, voting rights, and free speech
"It's probably the worst environment in the Supreme Court that has ever existed in history," one co…
Oma Seddiq
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SC takes note of COVID-19 infection among children in TN shelter home
The top court had said as the COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying in the country, it is important tha…
PTI
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The top 1% officially have more money than the whole middle class
The most recent data from the Federal Reserve shows that the top 1% wealthiest Americans have a col…
Juliana Kaplan,Andy Kiersz
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Democrats roll out a plan to provide up to $300 checks monthly to parents with kids 17 and under
The payments would vary depending on the child's age. Democrats are racing to approve President Joe…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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COVID-19 lockdown: NCPCR to focus on creating database of street children
"This project has been able to link 2,29,262 children in street situations with a legal identity d…
PTI
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Joe Manchin said Democrats should 'hit the pause button' on $3.5 trillion spending plan and demands cuts to Biden economic package
Manchin is one of two holdouts in the party-line deal. Without his vote, Biden's plans for a revamp…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Ayelet S…
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Democrats have to pass Biden's agenda or the US won't get back to pre-crisis prosperity, Oxford Economics says
Democrats have weeks to pass a multitrillion-dollar spending plan. Failing to do so would doom the …
Ben Winck
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Biden's stimulus shows he's governing like Bernie
The way President Joe Biden is spending money in his stimulus resembles Western European social dem…
Juliana Kaplan
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Rajesh Bhushan appointed new Union Health Secretary
In an administrative reshuffle effected on Friday, the central government appointed senior IAS offi…
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A Republican who posed in a QAnon shirt and tweeted the conspiracy theory's hashtag just won a Senate primary in Delaware
Witzke has posed in a QAnon-branded t-shirt and repeatedly tweeted out the QAnon motto, WWG1WGA. Sh…
Eliza Relman
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Mississippi banned most abortions to be the 'safest state' for the unborn. Meanwhile, one in three Mississippi kids live in poverty
Mississippi will defend its abortion ban before the Supreme Court on December 1. Back home, one in …
Sarah Fowler
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India moves to regulate the thriving business of commercial surrogacy
Thousands of infertile couples across the world are ready to pay millions to rent a womb. That year…
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Meet the college basketball player turned US senator who pitched a tax on billionaires like Elon Musk to fund Biden's economic agenda
Sen. Ron Wyden's optimism is being tested in the 50-50 Senate as he tries to bring Joe Manchin onbo…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Authorities in India are investigating a disturbing trend where mothers in 132 villages have given birth only to baby boys
Authorities in India say they are investigating why no baby girls have been born in over 100 vill…