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The Los Angeles City Council voted to ban the sale and distribution of products made with a type of plastic called polystyrene, known as Styrofoam, including "to-go" cups and takeout food containers.
On Thursday members and leaders of the Professional Staff Congress – the union representing 30,000 CUNY academic workers – gathered with student leaders in
We, the undersigned national, state, and local drug policy, criminal legal reform, public health, and advocacy organizations, write to communicate our ardent support of ending criminal penalties for the possession of personal-use amounts of drugs. In 2020, U.S. law enforcement agencies made 1,155,610 arrests for drug law violations–more arrests than for all violent crimes combined. Around 86% of these arrests were for the possession of personal-use amounts of drugs alone and often led to time spent in prison. Yet, we have an abundance of evidence that demonstrates that drug arrests, prosecut...
Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the conflict’s potential to escalate to the use of nuclear weapons has been highlighted.
Leading domestic and family violence advocates are concerned about the NSW Government's new Coercive Control Bill harming victims.