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Women’s Court may be renewed on Oʻahu and expanded to other islands
When the Oʻahu Women’s Court was established in 2022 to offer an alternative to incarceration, officials had a goal of admitting 20 participants a year. As of this month, 33 women were currently enrolled. The pilot project has been a success, say advocates, who are seeking to make...
Largest health care strike in Oregon history begins as thousands picket Providence hospitals
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Some 5,000 hospital health care workers walked off the job Friday as they picketed all eight Providence hospitals in Oregon, in what the state health workers union described as the largest health care strike in Oregon history — and the first to involve doctors. ...
In Gaza's crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City (AP) — For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy. Women struggle to dress modestly while crowded into tents with extended family members, including...
FDA proposes new testing rules to ensure cosmetics are asbestos-free
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cosmetic companies would have to take extra steps to ensure that any products containing talc are free of asbestos under a federal rule proposed Thursday. The proposal from the Food and Drug Administration and mandated by Congress is intended to reassure consumers...
The fate of the first-ever White House Gender Policy Council is uncertain in Trump's administration
WASHINGTON (AP) — During the transition period between President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, there has been at least some coordination on West Wing affairs. But not when it comes to Biden's Gender Policy Council, which has worked to defend reproductive health care in the face of...
2 teens killed, 4 injured in shooting at makeshift club in Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — Two teens were killed and four were injured — including a 13-year-old girl — in a shooting at a makeshift club in Houston, police said Sunday. Officers arriving at the site of the shooting late Saturday night found “a very hectic scene — a large crowd of...
