A lake-effect snowstorm is pummeling the Buffalo, New York, area. Winter weather has been blamed for several deaths and dangerous driving conditions.
Author: Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY
Strain on ‘grandfamilies’: Grandparents raising grandkids face high levels of food insecurity
Grandparents raising grandkids have higher rates of food insecurity than other households, but few of the benefits available to foster families.
Student debt relief blocked, potentially hurting Black and Latino families the most
Biden’s student debt relief plan, blocked by the 8th Circuit and a U.S district court in Texas, especially hits people of color from low-income families.
With Trump, Kanye West and Kyrie Irving remarks, Jewish communities fear rising hate
Incidents of antisemitism have risen sharply since 2016, with high-profile celebrities pushing anti-Jewish sentiment into public view.
As state laws target transgender children, families flee and become ‘political refugees’
As states propose and pass laws targeting transgender youths and their parents, desperate families have uprooted their lives to flee to safer places.
Biden pardons federally convicted marijuana users. Here’s where marijuana laws stand in each state
Looking at how each state stands on marijuana use after President Biden’s announcement that he would pardon those federally convicted of possession.
Sikh student detained on UNC campus for wearing kirpan, curved dagger central to faith
A North Carolina student was detained for carrying a kirpan, a symbolic sheathed dagger central to the Sikh faith.
They paid taxes. Now undocumented Latinos are aging without savings, government care
They came to the U.S. as young people seeking better lives. Now, without money and facing retirement, what will happen to older undocumented Latinos?
Is the swastika a symbol of hate or peaceful icon? Faith groups try to save reviled emblem
As the U.S. clamps down on hate symbols, Dharmic cultures say equating the sacred swastika with the Nazi Hakenkreuz puts their communities at risk.
For many students across the U.S., segregated schools are still a reality. Here’s why.
A federal study found more than a third of U.S. kids in 2020-21 went to schools where at least 75% of students were of a single race or ethnicity.