Voting rights advocates say law unfairly targets people of colorGreg Abbott confident law will survive legal challengesUS politics – live coverageThe Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has signed into law highly controversial new restrictions o…
Hearing for alleged 9/11 mastermind resumes after 18-month delay
Pre-trial process for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others defendants is in its ninth year with no clear end in sightNearly 20 years after the 9/11 attacks, the man accused of orchestrating the plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has appeared along four ot…
Human Rights Campaign fires president for advising Cuomo over allegations
Largest US LGBTQ rights group said Alphonso David was fired after an investigation by the New York attorney general, Letitia JamesThe Human Rights Campaign has fired its president, Alphonso David, over his involvement in former New York governor Andrew…
Ohio judge reverses court order forcing hospital to treat Covid patient with ivermectin
Judge cites lack of ‘convincing evidence’ that drug is effective, siding with hospital that refused to administer medicationAn Ohio judge has reversed a court order that forced a local hospital to treat a Covid-19 patient with the anti-parasitic drug i…
‘This is still here’: Bess Wohl’s story of seduction in a Nazi summer camp
The US playwright’s new drama, at the Old Vic in London, is a tragicomic romance amid swastika-shaped flowerbeds. She talks about finding a dark past on a trip to Long IslandIn May 2020, the playwright Bess Wohl rented a house in Bellport, Long Island,…
‘It’s part of my faith’: Death row inmate calls for pastor to lay hands on him during execution
John Henry Ramirez’s lawsuit reveals how rules around executions – from last meals to last words – are shaped by custom and sometimes spite rather than rightsJohn Henry Ramirez does not want to die alone. The Texas prisoner knows that at his execution,…
The cannabis industry is booming, but for many Black Americans the price of entry is steep
Social equity rules can reduce barriers to entry for communities most affected by discriminatory drug lawsWhile Bernard Noble sat in a Louisiana jail riding out a 13-year sentence for possession of 2.8 grams of marijuana, cannabis legalization and decr…
Union seeks Hollywood ending for film industry’s tale of exploitation
Behind the glitz many of those working in movies and TV face low wages and conditions that strike at the industry’s diversityWorking in Hollywood may sound glamorous but the vast majority of workers in entry-level, assistant and support staff positions…
UN experts condemn Texas abortion law as sex discrimination ‘at its worst’
Exclusive: human rights lawyer criticizes the supreme court and says new law will ‘make abortion unsafe and deadly’United Nations human rights monitors have strongly condemned the state of Texas for its new anti-abortion law, which they say violates in…
Inner visions: a dreamlike trip through New Mexico – in pictures
Shirin Neshat has been crowned a Photo London Master of Photography thanks to her black and white portraits of people from the American south-west Continue reading…