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Picketers representing the National Association of Colored Women march past the White House in Washington, DC, July 30, 1956, carrying posters protesting the lynching of four Black people in Georgia [File: AP] Today much of the world marks International Women’s Day. From Afghanistan to Guinea-Bissau and the United States, March 8 is recognised as the day to celebrate the achievements of women’s rights movements. The origins of International Women’s Day can be traced to New York where, in 1908, thousands of garment workers went on strike, marching through the streets of the city to deman...

Welcome back, the exsheriff of maricopa county in arizona joe arpaio says he wants his old job back. it comes two years after president trump pardoned him after a conviction on a criminal contempt charge for continue to go make immigration arrests after a court ordered him to stop. on twitter, arpaio said the last four years represented lost opportunities for the kind of tough policing the county needs. he also released a statement reading in part quote, watch out world, we are back. arpaio is promise to go reinstate measures like housing immigrants in outdoor tents in 100 degree plus temperat...

Clean and nice looking guy. i mean that's a story book man. >> he is letting the big banks write their own rules. unchain wall street. they are going to put you all back in chains. >> of course, obviously that -- a horrible reference to african-american and chain gangs. we -- time has passed since those things said. but it's the same person still. so are throes kinds of things a concern now. >> well they should be a concern. a, a lot of us have change. i'm sure the vice president wouldn't speak that way and he has learned as we all have. one of the things i think when i say that from the begin...

Conducted and when the department of justice went public during the trial telling all the voters -- actually we were in the election phase, telling reporters that i could get six months in prison. so the president, and i never asked for the pardon, pardoned me because he knew that this decision was wrong and i appreciate that pardon and we'll see what happens in the near future. we have some appeals in process. >> sheriff, you said you won't get into the facts, but i will get into the facts here tonight. some of the facts that were at issue, as you know, were the tent city that you would house...

Conducted. and when the department of justice went public during the trial telling all the voters that i -- actually, we were in the election phase telling reporters that i could get six months in prison. so the president -- and i never asked for the pardon, pardoned me because he knew that this decision was wrong. and i appreciate that pardon. and we'll see what happens in the near future. we have some appeals in process anyway. >> sheriff, you said you won't get into the facts, but i will get into the facts here tonight. some of the facts that were at issue, as you know, were the tent city, ...