Uruguay’s Senate unanimously approved a bill this week granting transgender citizens the legal right to change their name and gender marker on official identification documents — a measure that positions the small South American nation among the most progressive in the world on transgender rights. The bill, formally the Law on the Right to Gender…
Download Audio Newsbreak: Cleveland officials announce no charges to be files in the police killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. There is something shattering about the death, the killing, of a child. When a child dies the natural order is torn, the stars weep and the earth quakes. We have become so accustomed to this system…
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. heard a major challenge today to the Federal Communications Commission’s three-year-old Open Internet Rule. Verizon, the internet provider bringing the case, asked the court to strike down the rule entirely — arguing it should be free not just to charge websites for faster service, but to block certain…