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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Liberal groups criticized U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette on Tuesday for a comment they interpreted as comparing the reluctance of some banks…
View More U.S. energy secretary criticized by advocacy groups for 'redlining' comment
SYDNEY (AFP, NYTIMES) – More than 30 years after American mathematician Scott Johnson was killed in a gay hate crime in Australia, police said on…
View More Australian held over notorious 1980s hate crime killing of gay American
J.K. Rowling, the creator of the “Harry Potter” series, was criticized by gay and transgender rights groups on Thursday after she expressed support for a…
View More J.K. Rowling Criticized After Tweeting Support for Anti-Transgender Researcher
More from our inbox: To the Editor: Re “Finding the Tools to Spot, and Fight, Intolerance in Schools” (news article, Nov. 24): Having examined this…
View More Opinion | Fighting Racism in Schools
This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. Elizabeth Warren “sticks by her story,” USA…
View More Opinion | A Pregnancy Scandal
ATLANTA — In the most recent killing of a transgender woman, her body was found inside an abandoned car, burned beyond recognition. In another case,…
View More 18 Transgender Killings This Year Raise Fears of an ‘Epidemic’
TORONTO – The Law Society of Ontario has revoked a rule that required its members to spell out their commitment to promoting diversity. In a…
View More Ontario law society repeals rule requiring members to commit to promoting diversity
To the Editor: Re “Race in the Pediatric E.R.” (Sunday Review, Aug. 25): Jessica Horan-Block makes an important point about race discrimination in child welfare…
View More Opinion | Race Bias in Child Welfare Investigations
More from our inbox: To the Editor: “The Cruel Farce of Cutting Food Stamps” (editorial, July 29) rightly called into question the administration’s flawed proposal…
View More Opinion | Trump’s Rollback of Food Stamps
“I know a way out of hell,” says Ben Kingsley, as Mohandas Gandhi, in Richard Attenborough’s 1982 film. He’s speaking to a Hindu man who…
View More Opinion | The Latest Victims of Trump’s Cruelty? Foster Children
A federal judge in North Carolina approved a settlement on Tuesday that prohibits the state government from banning transgender people from using bathrooms in state…
View More North Carolina Reaches Settlement on ‘Bathroom Bill’
A London business that provides laser engravings has drawn the ire of hundreds after posting anti-LGBTQ2 remarks online. In a post to its Facebook page…
View More London business’ anti-LGBTQ2 stance draws ire on social media
Last week President Trump told four of my colleagues to “go back” where they came from — even though all are American citizens, and only…
View More Opinion | Trump Wants Immigrants to ‘Go Back.’ Native Americans Don’t.
Surprise, surprise: Donald Trump has no bottom. Just when you think he has sunk as low as he can, he stages a rally like that…
View More Opinion | How Democrats Defeat Donald Trump