US President-elect Joe Biden is to cancel the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline on his first day in office, North American media report. The pipeline is projected to carry oil nearly…

George Floyd’s death may be the most consequential police killing to have occurred since smartphones gave us the ability to document the realities of police violence. The details, captured on…

The rate at which complaints turn into legal procedures has remained constant however, with indictments jumping by 16 percent, while, like in 2019, roughly 80 percent of cases were closed…

“Doing bad history is a really good way to continue to divide people,” one historian said of the report.  The Trump administration chose a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther…

Two well-known Polish Holocaust historians are on trial for alleged defamation over their claim that late mayor of a town near Warsaw who saved one Jewish woman was involved in…

A federal appeals court this morning vacated EPA carbon emissions regulations for coal-fired power plants, a victory for opponents of the Trump administration policy who criticized the rule as too…

Donald Trump’s term in the White House was a time of great turmoil for America – as well as for its millions of Jews. The American Jewish community was courted…

A version of this article originally appeared in The Brink. Twenty-five years ago, 59,000 African American women signed up to join the Black Women’s Health Study launched by the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston…