Social Issues
Latest Stories
people_jesse_williams_50371.jpg
FILE - In this March 19, 2017, file photo, Jesse Williams attends the 34th annual PaleyFest: "Grey's Anatomy" event at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Williams filed for divorce from Aryn Drakelee-Williams on April 11 in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
beyonce_scholarships_44641.jpg
FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2016, file photo, Beyonce performs at a Get Out the Vote concert for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland. Beyonce marked the one-year anniversary of her album "Lemonade" on April 25, 2017, by announcing scholarships for black women to attended selected colleges. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
trump_health_overhaul_88157.jpg
In this March 21, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump, followed by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, leaves Capitol Hill Washington after rallying support for the Republican health care overhaul with GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
immigration_border_prosecutions_63201.jpg
FILE - In this April 11, 2017, file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, center, tours the U.S.-Mexico border with border officials in Nogales, Ariz. A courthouse on the border in Texas is serving as a model for the kind of tough immigration enforcement advocated by President Donald Trump. “This is a new era. This is the Trump era,” Sessions said during a visit to the border in Nogales, Ariz., this month. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
colorado_1st_abortion_law_82569.jpg
This Oct. 13, 1984 photo shows women's rights advocate and pro-choice activist Ruth Steel. Steel lobbied lawmakers in 1965 to allow public health officials to discuss birth control with residents and provide it to them. She worked closely with John Bermingham, a Republican state senator who is now 93 and retired, to shepherd the contraception bill though the Legislature. It's the 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking Colorado state legislative bill signed into law by a Republican governor that significantly loosened 1960s restrictions on legal abortions. (Ed Kosmicki/The Denver Post via AP)
colorado_1st_abortion_law_91464.jpg
In this Feb. 11, 2017, photo, pro-choice counter-protesters hold signs supporting a woman's right to choose abortion, as nearby anti-abortion activists held a rally in front of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in Denver. April 25, 2017, marks the 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking bill signed into law by a Republican governor that significantly loosened 1960s restrictions on legal abortions. That made Colorado the first U.S. state to do so, six years before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) **FILE**
Colorado_1st_Abortion_Law_91464.jpg-ef856.jpg
Pro-choice counter-protesters hold signs supporting a woman's right to choose abortion, as nearby anti-abortion activists held a rally in front of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains in Denver on Feb. 11, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
overcoming_opioids_sober_at_17_05362.jpg
In this Monday, March 13, 2017 photo, Logan Snyder works in the computer lab at Hope Academy in Indianapolis. Snyder got hooked on pills after a prescription to treat pain from a kidney stone she joined the millions already swept up in the nation's grim wave of addiction to opioid painkillers. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
overcoming_opioids_sober_at_17_25338.jpg
In this Monday, March 13, 2017 photo, Logan Snyder, listens during an American history class at Hope Academy in Indianapolis. Snyder got hooked on pills after a prescription to treat pain from a kidney stone she joined the millions already swept up in the nation's grim wave of addiction to opioid painkillers. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
escorting_immigrants_58404.jpg
In this Tuesday, April 11, 2017, photo, Sarah Gozalo, center left, and Marisa Lohse, center right, of the New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC, review the Application for Asylum of Joselin Marroquin-Torres, left, before her appearance in federal immigration court in New York. Volunteers are stepping up to accompany people living in the United States illegally to court hearings and meetings with immigration officials in New York, New Mexico and elsewhere, with the goal of guiding them through what’s often an intimidating process. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
escorting_immigrants_10782.jpg
In this Thursday, March 30, 2017, photo the Rev. Francisco Garcia, left, escorts Carmen Cardona, a Honduran immigrant, to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement appointment in downtown Los Angeles. Volunteers are stepping up to accompany people living in the United States illegally to court hearings and meetings with immigration officials in New York, New Mexico and elsewhere, with the goal of guiding them through what’s often an intimidating process. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
4_242017_b3-mori-illegal-gra8201.jpg
Better-educated Immigrants Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
los_angeles_shots_fired_26790.jpg
Los Angeles police officers take a man into custody after an hours-long search of a building in Los Angeles' downtown Garment District Monday, April 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
APTOPIX_Argentina_Protest_86535.jpg-fb0a8.jpg
People reach out for free lettuce at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, April 24, 2017. Farmers gave away fruits and vegetables as a form of protest, demanding land rights and rural development. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
4_242017_pot8201.jpg
U.S. Capitol Police move in to arrest DCMJ pro-pot activists after they smoked marijuana outside the U.S. Capitol Building during a civil disobedience protest on Monday. Four activists were charged with possession. (Laura Kelly/The Washington Times)
arkansas_executions_26598.jpg
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmate Jack Jones, who is one of two Arkansas killers set to die Monday, April 24, 2017, in the nation's first double execution in more than 16 years. Jones was given the death penalty for the 1995 rape and killing of Mary Phillips. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP, File)
arkansas_executions_43005.jpg
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmate Marcel Williams who is one of two Arkansas killers set to die Monday, April 24, 2017, in the nation's first double execution in more than 16 years. Williams was sent to death row for the 1994 rape and killing of 22-year-old Stacy Errickson, whom he kidnapped from a gas station in central Arkansas. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP, File)
DSCN0132.JPG
Pete Byrne. (Marivi Valcourt)
minneapolis_mayor_abuse_51336.jpg
FILE - In this March 30, 2016 file photo, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges speaks at a news conference in Minneapolis. Hodges says she was sexually abused as a child in a revelation she made, Monday, April 24, 2017, on a Facebook page called "Break the Silence Day" to support victims of sexual abuse. Hodges writes she was abused for years by unrelated adults and didn't tell her family or friends for many years. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
chobani_alex_jones_lawsuit_23448.jpg
FILE- In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Alex Jones, a well-known Austin-based broadcaster and provocateur, arrives for a child custody trial at the Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas. Greek yogurt giant Chobani is suing Jones, accusing the conspiracy theorist of publishing false information about the company. Chobani filed the lawsuit Monday, April 24. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
