Christine Fernando

Un partidario del expresidente Donald Trump ondea una bandera estadounidense invertida durante una manifestación frente a la Torre Trump, el viernes 31 de mayo de 2024, en Nueva York. (AP Foto/John Minchillo)

Bandera de EEUU invertida reaparece en protestas de derecha tras veredicto de culpabilidad de Trump

May 31, 2024 at 10:29 p.m.

CHICAGO — Tras el histórico veredicto de culpabilidad de Donald Trump, un flujo constante de imágenes que muestran banderas estadounidenses invertidas ha aparecido en redes sociales mientras sus partidarios y comentaristas de...

A er of former President Donald Trump waves an inverted American flag during a demonstration outside Trump Tower, Friday, May 31, 2024, in New York. A day after a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony charges, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee addressed the conviction and likely attempt to cast his campaign in a new light. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Upside-down American flag reappears as a right-wing protest symbol after Trump’s guilty verdict

June 1, 2024 at 12:16 a.m.

CHICAGO — After Donald Trump's historic guilty verdict, a steady flow of images showing upside-down American flags has appeared on social media as his ers and right-wing commentators protest his felony conviction.At...

El expresidente Donald Trump regresa tras un receso a un tribunal penal de Manhattan, Nueva York, el martes 21 de mayo de 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo vía AP)

Trump senala que apoyaria restricciones a anticonceptivos; su equipo campana dice que se expreso mal

May 22, 2024 at 12:37 a.m.

El expresidente estadounidense Donald Trump dijo el martes que estaba dispuesto a respaldar regulaciones sobre los métodos anticonceptivos y que su equipo de campaña publicará una política sobre el tema...

ARCHIVO - La exrepresentante Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, candidata demócrata al Senado de Estados Unidos, se dirige a los presentes, el 23 de abril de 2024, en Tampa, Florida. (AP Foto/Phelan M. Ebenhack, Archivo)

La tactica dilatoria en el Senado de EEUU frena cualquier proyecto de ley nacional sobre el aborto

May 21, 2024 at 11:35 p.m.

CHICAGO — La senadora Tammy Baldwin —que se enfrenta a una dura pelea por su reelección en una de las contiendas que determinarán el control del Congreso— ha hecho de la protección...

Former President Donald Trump speaks at Manhattan Criminal court, Monday, May 20, 2024, in New York. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)

Trump says he is open to restrictions on contraception before backing away from the statement

May 22, 2024 at 12:36 a.m.

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was open to ing regulations on contraception and that his campaign would release a policy on the issue “very shortly,” comments that...

FILE - Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., speaks before President Joe Biden, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Several Democrats running for the Senate this year say they overriding the filibuster, which requires a 60-vote supermajority to legislation, to protect reproductive rights if their party retains control of the chamber. Baldwin has made protecting reproductive rights a cornerstone of her campaign — and she's willing to back that up by pledging to change the Senate filibuster rules if Democrats retain control of the chamber. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The Senate filibuster is a hurdle to any national abortion bill. Democrats are campaigning on it

May 19, 2024 at 11:42 a.m.

CHICAGO — Sen. Tammy Baldwin, facing a tough reelection fight in one of the races that will determine control of Congress, has made protecting reproductive rights a cornerstone of her campaign, and...

El expresidente Donald Trump comparece ante el tribunal penal de Manhattan antes de su juicio en Nueva York, el martes 30 de abril de 2024. (Justin Lane/Pool Foto vía AP)

Trump dice que la decision de enjuiciar a las mujeres por abortar debe ser tomada por los estados

May 3, 2024 at 11:14 p.m.

CHICAGO — El expresidente Donald Trump dijo en una nueva entrevista que la decisión de enjuiciar a las mujeres por abortar o de vigilar su embarazo se debe dejar en manos de...

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. (Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump says states should decide on prosecuting women for abortions, has no comment on abortion pill

April 30, 2024 at 10:17 p.m.

CHICAGO — Former President Donald Trump says in a new interview it should be left to the states whether to prosecute women for abortions or whether to monitor women's pregnancies. He declined...

ARCHIVO - Una votante, a la derecha, recibe una papeleta durante la votación anticipada en el ayuntamiento de Warren, el 21 de febrero de 2024, en Warren, Michigan. (AP Foto/Carlos Osorio, Archivo)

EEUU: Avalancha de demandas sobre el proceso electoral provoca tensiones rumbo al voto de noviembre

April 23, 2024 at 11:53 p.m.

CHICAGO — Mientras el presidente Joe Biden y Donald Trump intensifican su campaña en los estados indecisos, una batalla más silenciosa tiene lugar a la sombra de su revancha por la Casa...

FILE - A ballot is handed to a voter, far right, as early voting takes place at the Warren City Hall, Feb. 21, 2024, in Warren, Mich. The Republican National Committee has filed voting-related lawsuits in two dozen states targeting such things as voter rolls, mailed balloting and policies related to poll watchers. Democrats say it’s a strategy designed to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the vote this fall and potentially delay certification of the results. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Crush of lawsuits over voting in multiple states creates a shadow war for the 2024 election

April 21, 2024 at 1:48 p.m.

CHICAGO — As President Joe Biden and Donald Trump step up their campaigning in swing states, a quieter battle is taking place in the shadows of their White House rematch.The Republican National...

ARCHIVO - La alcaldesa de Phoenix, Kate Gallego, habla con los periodistas en el Capitolio estatal en Phoenix el 9 de abril de 2024. (AP Foto/Jonathan Copper)

Ley que restringe aborto en Arizona nacio durante la Guerra Civil

April 20, 2024 at 1:18 a.m.

Mientras los ejércitos de la Unión y de los Estados Confederados se enfrentaban en un sangriento cuarto año de la Guerra Civil estadounidense, el presidente Abraham Lincoln encargó a un...

FILE - Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego speaks to reporters at the state Capitol in Phoenix on April 9, 2024. The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864, a time when gold-seekers were moving, white settlers were clashing with Native Americans and dueling had to be regulated. The law's revival is just the latest instance of long-dormant restrictions influencing current abortion policies after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Jonathan Copper)

The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona’s abortion ban

April 15, 2024 at 6:52 p.m.

WASHINGTON — As Union and Confederate armies clashed in a bloody fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln tasked one man to create the legal code for Arizona, almost 50...

State Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, responds to a reporter's questions in her office Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Johnson is a Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Sen. Marsha Blackburn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Progressive candidates are increasingly sharing their own abortion stories after Roe’s demise

April 13, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For decades, only three people knew Gloria Johnson had had an abortion.But a year of watching women and doctors agonize under Tennessee's strict abortion ban kicked up a fire...

Michael Ruiz y Marisol Moraga participan en un evento en La Campesina, una cadena de radio en español en Phoenix, Arizona, el miércoles 20 de marzo de 2024. La Campesina brinda a los votantes hispanos información sobre las elecciones en EEUU. (Foto AP/Serkan Gurbuz)

Partidos cortejan a votantes hispanos en EEUU, pero tambien son blanco de desinformacion

April 8, 2024 at 9:11 p.m.

PHOENIX — Mientras la música ranchera llenaba el estudio de grabación de Radio Campesina en Phoenix, una personalidad de la estación habló en español por el micrófono.“Amigos de la Campesina, en estas...

As Michael Ruiz, left, looks on, radio guest Carolina Rodriguez-Greer, with Mi Familia Vota, speaks, at the Phoenix studio of La Campesina, a Spanish-language radio network, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. A surge of misinformation is targeting Spanish-speaking voters with a high-stakes presidential election looming in the fall and candidates vying for from the rapidly growing number of Latino voters. In one of the most important swing states, Arizona, La Campesina is countering that with a dedicated effort to provide Latino voters the facts about voting and how elections are run. (AP Photo/Serkan Gurbuz)

Latino voters are coveted by both major parties. They also are a target for election misinformation

April 9, 2024 at 1:22 p.m.

PHOENIX — As ranchera music filled the Phoenix recording studio at Radio Campesina, a station personality spoke in Spanish into the microphone.“Friends of Campesina, in these elections, truth and unity are more...

Abortion rights activists unfurl a banner, created by the ACLU, filled with names of people who said they the continued access to medication abortion, outside the Supreme Court, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Washington. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in its first abortion case since conservative justices overturned the constitutional right to an abortion two years ago. At stake in Tuesday's arguments is the ease of access to a medication used last year in nearly two-thirds of U.S. abortions. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

5 takeaways from the abortion pill case before the U.S. Supreme Court

March 26, 2024 at 9:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case that could have far-reaching implications for millions of American...

Lisa Forbes, la candidata demócrata para un asiento en la Corte Suprema de Ohio, durante un evento en Richmond Heights, Ohio, el sábado 9 de marzo de 2024. (AP Foto/Phil Long)

Primarias democratas de Ohio abren la batalla por el control partidista de la Corte Suprema estatal

March 20, 2024 at 4:30 a.m.

Las primarias del martes para tres asientos en disputa en la Corte Suprema de Ohio marcaron el inicio de una batalla por el control partidista del tribunal este otoño.Se presume...

Lisa Forbes, the Democratic candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court, smiles as she talks with attendees at the Woman's Empowerment Luncheon in Richmond Heights, Ohio, Saturday, March 9, 2024. Forbes is currently an Ohio Court of Appeals Judge. The Ohio Supreme Court’s 4-3 Republican majority could flip to Democrats’ favor in the fall if the party sweeps the three seats up for election this year. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

Democrats hope to flip Ohio’s supreme court this fall. Tuesday’s primary settled the contests

March 20, 2024 at 2:55 a.m.

Tuesday’s primaries for three contested seats on the Ohio Supreme Court kicked off a high-stakes battle for partisan control of the court this fall.The court, which currently has a 4-3...

Desde la izquierda, Kathy Telban, de Mayfield Heights, Ohio, habla con Lisa Forbes, candidata demócrata a la Corte Suprema de Ohio y Angel Washington, candidata a representante estatal de Ohio, en un evento de empoderamiento de la mujer en Richmond Heights, Ohio, el sábado 9 de marzo de 2024. (AP Foto/Phil Long)

Primarias de Ohio sentaran las bases para alterar el control partidista de la Corte Suprema estatal

March 18, 2024 at 8:18 p.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, EE.UU. — Desde hace casi cuatro décadas, los jueces de tendencia liberal no tienen mayoría en la Corte Suprema de Ohio.Los demócratas esperan que esto cambie este año, a partir...

FILE - People gather in a parking lot as people arrive for early in-person voting in Cincinnati, Nov. 2, 2023. Ohio is expected to play a starring role in the 2024 high-stakes races for state supreme court seats. The Ohio Supreme Court’s 4-3 Republican majority could flip to Democrats’ favor in the fall if the party sweeps the three seats up for election this year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Ohio primary will set up a fall election that could flip partisan control of the state supreme court

March 17, 2024 at 11:59 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It's been nearly four decades since liberal-leaning justices held a majority on Ohio's supreme court.Democrats hope this is the year that changes, in a campaign that will begin to...

ARCHIVO - El presidente Joe Biden pronuncia el discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión ante una sesión conjunta del Congreso en el Capitolio, el 7 de marzo de 2024, en Washington. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP, Archivo)

En discurso sobre el Estado de la Union, Biden mostro incomodidad con el tema del aborto

March 11, 2024 at 11:29 p.m.

WASHINGTON — La libertad reproductiva ocupó un lugar central en el discurso de Biden sobre el Estado de la Unión, pero los defensores del derecho al aborto tuvieron reacciones encontradas y expresaron...

FILE - President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a t session of Congress at the Capitol, March 7, 2024, in Washington. Seated at left is Vice President Kamala Harris and at right is House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. Biden made abortion and reproductive rights a central theme of his State of the Union speech, but he never mentioned the word "abortion." Pushback over how he addressed the issue is the latest example of Biden's fraught history with the topic. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP, File)

Biden’s big speech showed his uneasy approach to abortion, an issue bound to be key in the campaign

March 10, 2024 at 4:49 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Reproductive freedom took center stage during Biden’s State of the Union address, but abortion rights advocates had mixed reactions, raising concerns about the president trying to capitalize on what will...

Votantes entran y salen de un colegio electoral en el juzgado de Seale, en el condado de Russell, durante unas elecciones primarias, el martes 5 de marzo de 2024, en Seale, Alabama. (AP Foto/Mike Stewart)

Votantes de distrito de Alabama que debia reforzar poder politico negro reciben informacion erronea

March 6, 2024 at 3:34 a.m.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, EE.UU. — Más de 6.000 votantes de un distrito electoral que fue creado recientemente para aumentar la influencia de los votantes negros en Alabama recibieron tarjetas postales con información incorrecta...

Voters enter and exit a polling facility at the Seale Courthouse in Russell County during a primary election, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Seale, Ala. About 6,000 voters in a new congressional district, that includes Russell County, formed to boost Black representation, received postcards with incorrect voting information ahead of Tuesday’s primary election. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Thousands of voters in Alabama district drawn to boost Black political power got wrong information

March 6, 2024 at 1:45 a.m.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — More than 6,000 voters in a newly formed congressional district drawn to heighten Black voting power in Alabama received postcards with incorrect voting information ahead of Tuesday’s primary, alarming...

ARCHIVO - Residentes de Missouri y defensores del aborto exclaman ante un orador durante la campaña de petición del grupo Missourians for Constitutionals Freedom, el 6 de febrero de 2024, en Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Foto/Ed Zurga, Archivo)

Fallo sobre FIV en Alabama resalta relevancia de las contiendas para las cortes supremas estatales

March 4, 2024 at 5:34 a.m.

CHICAGO — El reciente fallo en Alabama de que los embriones congelados se consideran niños legalmente creó una tormenta política después de que la decisión paralizara el tratamiento a muchas parejas que...

FILE - Hundreds gather for a protest rally for in vitro fertilization legislation Feb. 28, 2024, in Montgomery, Ala. The recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that frozen embryos can be considered children, halting IVF treatments in the state, is a clear example of why races for state supreme courts will be among the most expensive and hotly contested this year. State high court seats will be on the ballot in more than 30 states, and several of those races have the potential to flip political control of the court. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery r via AP, File)

Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s US elections

March 2, 2024 at 3:57 a.m.

CHICAGO — The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have families through fertility...

ARCHIVO - La representante republicana Nancy Mace habla tras una reunión a puerta cerrada de los republicanos de la Cámara de Representantes en el Capitolio, el 11 de octubre de 2023, en Washington. (AP Foto/Mariam Zuhaib, Archivo)

Algunos republicanos expresan dudas ante fallo de Alabama sobre la FIV. Democratas ven oportunidad

February 24, 2024 at 12:17 a.m.

Algunos republicanos se sumaron a los demócratas al expresar su alarma por un fallo dictado esta semana por la Corte Suprema de Alabama que pone en riesgo el futuro...

FILE - Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., speaks following a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Capitol Hill, Oct. 11, 2023, in Washington. Democrats and reproductive rights groups are seizing on a recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that plunges the future of access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, into uncertainty, hoping the controversial move will help motivate voters this year. Mace, who has said she opposes abortion but believes her party has been out of step with most Americans in its push for restrictions, was critical of the Alabama ruling. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Some Republicans are voicing doubt over Alabama IVF ruling. Democrats see an opportunity

February 23, 2024 at 2:33 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Some Republicans ed Democrats in expressing alarm over a ruling this week by the Alabama Supreme Court that jeopardized future access to in vitro fertilization, giving allies of President Joe...

ARCHIVO - El precandidato republicano a la presidencia, el expresidente Donald Trump, habla durante un evento en Conway, Carolina del Sur, el 10 de febrero de 2024. (AP Foto/Manuel Balce Ceneta, Archivo)

Opositores y defensores aprovechan reporte de que Trump apoya prohibicion de aborto a las 16 semanas

February 16, 2024 at 11:55 p.m.

NUEVA YORK — Un importante grupo en contra del aborto elogió un reporte de prensa sobre que Donald Trump dijo en privado que apoya una prohibición a nivel nacional al aborto después...

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally in Conway, S.C., Feb. 10, 2024. A major anti-abortion group is praising Trump after a New York Times report Friday, Feb. 16, that Trump has privately told people he s a national ban on abortion after 16-weeks of pregnancy, though his campaign denied the report and said Trump plans to "negotiate a deal" on abortion if elected to the White House again. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Abortion rights opponents and ers seize on report that Trump privately pushes 16-week ban

February 16, 2024 at 9:16 p.m.

NEW YORK — A major anti-abortion group is praising a published report that Donald Trump has privately told people he s a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks of pregnancy, though...

ARCHIVO - Un residente deposita su firma en una petición durante la campaña de recogida de firmas de Missourians for Constitutionals Freedom, el 6 de febrero de 2024 en Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Foto/Ed Zurga, Archivo)

EEUU: No todas las iniciativas electorales estatales incluyen la salud mental como causal de aborto

February 14, 2024 at 1:09 a.m.

CHICAGO — Después de enterarse que estaba embarazada, Kaniya Harris vivió algunas de las semanas más duras de su vida.Se acercaban rápidamente los exámenes finales. Sus médicos le informaron que tenía un...

Kaniya Harris, a senior at American University, poses for a portrait at the university's campus in Washington, Monday, Feb. 12, 2024. Abortion rights advocates are trying to get initiatives to protect reproductive on the ballot in several states this year, and one major difference has emerged in their proposed language — whether to include mental health as an exception. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Mental health emerges as a dividing line in abortion rights initiatives planned for state ballots

February 13, 2024 at 3:26 p.m.

CHICAGO — The weeks after Kaniya Harris found out she was pregnant were among the hardest in her life.Final exams were fast approaching for the college junior. Her doctors told her she...

ARCHIVO - de un grupo de defensa del derecho al voto sostienen pancartas para exigir que sea protegido, en una rueda de prensa el 7 de diciembre de 2023, en Jackson, Mississippi. (AP Foto/Rogelio V. Solis, Archivo)

Demandas republicanas impugnan plazos del voto por correo. Podrian tener efecto a nivel nacional?

February 2, 2024 at 12:31 a.m.

Los republicanos están impugnando la ampliación de los plazos para votar por correo en al menos dos estados, una maniobra jurídica que podría tener amplias implicaciones para el sufragio por...

FILE - Kyle Hallman, with Chester County Voter Services, organizes mail-in ballots to be sorted for the 2020 General Election Oct. 23, 2020, in West Chester, Pa. Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two states in a move that could have severe implications for mail voting nationwide ahead of this year's presidential election. A lawsuit filed last week in Mississippi follows a similar one last year in North Dakota, both brought in heavily Republican states before conservative federal courts. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Republican lawsuits challenge mail ballot deadlines. Could they upend voting across the country?

February 1, 2024 at 11:03 p.m.

Republicans are challenging extended mail ballot deadlines in at least two states in a legal maneuver that could have widespread implications for mail voting before the presidential election in November.A...

ARCHIVO - Manifestación en apoyo del derecho al aborto, 2 de julio de 2022, en Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Foto/Charlie Riedel, Archivo)

Varias legislaturas estatales republicanas buscan evitar voto sobre derecho al aborto

January 29, 2024 at 8:54 p.m.

CHICAGO — En los estados de Missouri y Mississippi se llevan a cabo intentos legislativos que pretenden impedir que los votantes tengan voz y voto sobre el derecho al aborto, basándose en...

FILE - People rally in of abortion rights, July 2, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi this week are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights, building on anti-abortion strategies seen in other states, including last year in Ohio. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Republican legislatures in some states are trying to keep abortion off the ballot

January 29, 2024 at 5:21 a.m.

CHICAGO — Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights, building on anti-abortion strategies seen in other states, including last year in...

Comision electoral de EEUU pierde otro director ejecutivo en el arranque de un ano electoral crucial

January 19, 2024 at 12:51 a.m.

La agencia federal que desarrolla estándares para los equipos de votación y proporciona una amplia gama de asistencia a los funcionarios electorales estatales y locales está en busca de su...

US election commission loses another executive director as critical election year begins

January 19, 2024 at 12:11 a.m.

The federal agency that develops standards for voting equipment and provides a wide range of assistance to state and local election officials is searching for its fourth leader since 2019.The...

ARCHIVO - Manifestación a favor del derecho al aborto, 2 de julio de 2022, en Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Foto/Charlie Riedel, Archivo)

Por que el debate sobre la viabilidad divide al movimiento por el derecho al aborto en EEUU

January 18, 2024 at 12:41 a.m.

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, EE.UU. — Los grupos de defensa de los derechos reproductivos de Missouri concuerdan en que quieren presentar ante los votantes una iniciativa que derogue una de las prohibiciones del...

FILE - People rally in of abortion rights, July 2, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. A divide between abortion rights activists over whether to include restrictions related to the viability of the fetus on planned state ballot measures is roiling the movement. The conflict has been especially divisive in Missouri, where conflicting strategies are complicating efforts to push ahead with a ballot measure in a state with one of the nation's strictest abortion bans. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Why ‘viability’ is dividing the abortion rights movement

January 17, 2024 at 9:37 p.m.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Reproductive rights activists in Missouri agree they want to get a ballot measure before voters this fall to roll back one of the strictest abortion bans in the...

El expresidente Donald Trump sostiene una copia de un reportaje en el que aparece la fiscal general de Nueva York, Letitia James, mientras habla durante una rueda de prensa, el jueves 11 de enero de 2024, en Nueva York. (AP Foto/Mary Altaffer)

Trump lanza acusaciones infundadas de colusion contra fiscal general de NY al concluir su juicio

January 13, 2024 at 10:02 p.m.

A punto de concluir su juicio civil por fraude, Donald Trump ha lanzado acusaciones infundadas de colusión contra la fiscal general de Nueva York por las visitas que hizo a...

Former President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a story featuring New York Attorney General Letitia James while speaking during a news conference, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in New York. Trump's lawyers presented closing arguments in his civil business fraud trial earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Trump levels unsubstantiated claims of collusion against New York AG as civil fraud trial wraps up

January 12, 2024 at 8:30 p.m.

With his civil fraud trial drawing to a close, Donald Trump has leveled uned claims of collusion against the New York attorney general for visits she made to the White...

ARCHIVO - Jueces de la Corte Suprema de Arizona, de izquierda a derecha: William G. Montgomery, John R Lopez IV; la jueza vicepresidente Ann A. Scott Timmer, el presidente del tribunal, Robert M. Brutinel; Clint Bolick y James Beene escuchan argumentos orales el 20 de abril de 2021, en Phoenix. (AP Foto/Matt York, archivo)

Debate sobre el aborto crea “nueva era” en contiendas para las Cortes Supremas estatales de EEUU

December 30, 2023 at 2:28 a.m.

CHICAGO — En las elecciones de 2024 en Estados Unidos predominarán la lucha por la presidencia y la batalla por el control del Congreso, pero hay otras contiendas que están perfilándose para...

FILE - Arizona Supreme Court Justices from left; William G. Montgomery, John R Lopez IV, Vice Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, Chief Justice Robert M. Brutinel, Clint Bolick and James Beene listen to oral arguments on April 20, 2021, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Abortion debate creates ‘new era’ for state supreme court races in 2024, with big spending expected

December 29, 2023 at 6:12 p.m.

CHICAGO — The 2024 elections will be dominated by the presidential contest and the battle for control of Congress, but another series of races is shaping up to be just as consequential.Crucial...

Oren Etzioni retratado en el Instituto Allen de Inteligencia Artificial, donde trabaja como asesor y miembro de la junta directiva, el viernes 8 de diciembre de 2023, en Seattle. (AP Foto/John Froschauer)

Redes sociales menos controladas y aumento de deepfakes ponen a prueba elecciones de 2024 en EEUU

December 27, 2023 at 7:16 a.m.

NUEVA YORK — Casi tres años después de los tumultos en el Capitolio de Estados Unidos, las falsas teorías de conspiración electoral que impulsaron el violento ataque siguen presentes en las redes...

Oren Etzioni poses for photos at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence where he serves as advisor & board member, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Seattle. Experts are warning that the spread of misinformation could get worse in the coming presidential election contest. The safeguards that attempted to counter the bogus claims the last time are eroding, while the tools and systems that create and spread them are only getting stronger. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)

As social media guardrails fade and AI deepfakes go mainstream, experts warn of impact on elections

December 26, 2023 at 10:45 p.m.

NEW YORK — Nearly three years after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the false election conspiracy theories that drove the violent attack remain prevalent on social media and cable news: suitcases filled...

Republican presidential candidate former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a town hall campaign event, Tuesday, Dec.12, 2023, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Some 2024 GOP hopefuls call for ‘comion’ in Texas abortion case but don’t say law should change

December 13, 2023 at 9:08 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Some of the Republicans seeking their party's 2024 presidential nomination have said the case of a Texas woman whose health deteriorated as she unsuccessfully sought an abortion should be handled...

El presidente de la Corte Suprema de Colorado, Brian D. Boatright, al frente, interroga a un abogado mientras el juez William W. Hood, III, observa durante una audiencia ante el tribunal el miércoles 6 de diciembre de 2023, en Denver. (AP Foto/David Zalubowski, Pool)

Jueces de la Corte Suprema de Colorado cuestionan si el estado puede vetar a Trump de las elecciones

December 8, 2023 at 3:00 a.m.

DENVER — Jueces de la Corte Suprema de Colorado cuestionaron enérgicamente el miércoles a ambas partes procesales sobre si podrían excluir al expresidente Donald Trump de la papeleta electoral de 2024, en...

Attorney Eric Olson, far right, argues before the Colorado Supreme Court on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Denver. Colorado Supreme Court justices have sharply questioned whether they could exclude former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, Pool)

Colorado Supreme Court justices question whether the state can bar Trump from the 2024 ballot

December 7, 2023 at 12:06 a.m.

DENVER — Colorado Supreme Court justices on Wednesday sharply questioned both sides about whether they could exclude former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in a case that seeks to upend...

La representante del estado de Ohio Jennifer Gross, republicana de West Chester, con un cartel de "Elige la vida", cuarta por la izquierda, está en el templete mientras la senadora de Ohio Kristina Roegner, republicana de Hudson, habla durante la manifestación de la Marcha por la Vida de Ohio, el viernes 6 de octubre de 2023, en la Casa del Estado de Ohio, Columbus, Ohio. (AP Foto/Carolyn Kaster)

Las disputas sobre el aborto en EEUU dejan ver otra falla: el compromiso con la democracia

November 23, 2023 at 12:23 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, EE.UU. — Desde que la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos anuló el derecho constitucional al aborto, las batallas estatales en torno al derecho a la interrupción del embarazo han dejado...

Ohio State Rep. Jennifer Gross, R-West Chester, holding a "Choose Life" sign, center, ed by Ohio State Rep. Adam Bird, R-New Richmond, left, and Ohio State Rep. Thomas Hall, R-Madison Township, right, stand together on stage during the Ohio March for Life rally at the Ohio State House in Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 6, 2023. The statewide battles over abortion rights that have erupted since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to the procedure have exposed another fault line: commitment to democracy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Voters back abortion rights, but some foes won’t relent. Is the commitment to democracy in question?

November 19, 2023 at 12:40 p.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The statewide battles over abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line: the commitment to democracy.As voters in state...

De izquierda a derecha, Sandra Feihrer, Lauren Angler, Shannon Gallagher y Tina Gasbarra Larsen celebran con otros partidarios del derecho al aborto luego de que los votantes de Ohio aprobaran una enmienda constitucional que garantiza dicho derecho, el martes 7 de noviembre de 2023, en Columbus Ohio. (AP Foto/Sue Ogrocki)

Victorias sobre el aborto dan impulso a los democratas; al mensaje republicano le falta impacto

November 9, 2023 at 10:14 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Los votantes respaldaron el derecho al aborto en Ohio, Virginia y otros lugares, y los demócratas intentan aprovechar esas victorias para impulsar la participación y dar forma a las contiendas...

Issue 1 ers cheer as they watch election results come in, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Columbus Ohio. Ohio voters have approved a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. The outcome of Tuesday’s intense, off-year election was the latest blow for abortion opponents. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Democrats see abortion wins as a springboard for 2024 as GOP struggles to find a winning message

November 9, 2023 at 12:34 a.m.

WASHINGTON — Voters threw their behind abortion rights in Ohio, Virginia and elsewhere as Democrats look to springboard off those wins by using the issue to drive turnout and shape next...

Simpatizantes del presidente Donald Trump irrumpen en el Capitolio el 6 de enero de 2021, en Washington. (AP Foto/John Minchillo, Archivo)

La presencia de Trump en las boletas electorales podria depender del significado de “insurreccion”

November 7, 2023 at 4:22 p.m.

DENVER — ¿El expresidente Donald Trump puede aspirar a recuperar su antiguo empleo después del papel que desempeñó en el ataque del 6 de enero de 2021 contra el Capitolio federal? La...

Varias personas se reúnen en el estacionamiento de la Junta Electoral del Condado de Hamilton mientras la gente llega para la votación anticipada en persona en Cincinnati, el jueves 2 de noviembre de 2023. Instan a votar a favor o en contra de la medida conocida como Asunto 1. El Asunto 1 es la única pregunta sobre el aborto en las papeletas estatales de este año. (AP Foto/Carolyn Kaster)

Enmienda de Ohio es el banco de pruebas de la lucha estatal en torno al aborto prevista para 2024

November 5, 2023 at 8:32 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, EE.UU. — Se espera que el al aborto desempeñe un papel central en las elecciones de 2024. Pero la próxima semana habrá un anticipo, cuando los votantes de Ohio...

FILE - Violent rioters loyal to President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Lawsuits playing out in two states this week seeking to keep former President Donald Trump off the ballot rely on a constitutional clause barring those from office who “have engaged in insurrection.” One challenge has become clear during the hearings in Colorado and Minnesota: No one can agree on how to define an insurrection. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Can Trump be on the ballot in 2024? It can hinge on the meaning of ‘insurrection’

November 3, 2023 at 5:57 p.m.

DENVER — Can former President Donald Trump run for his old job again after his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol? The answer may depend on the...

Partidarios de Trump sostienen carteles frente al Centro Judicial de Minnesota, el 2 de noviembre de 2023, en St. Paul, Minnesota. (Foto AP/Abbie Parr)

Corte en Minnesota dividida sobre permitir a Trump permanecer en la boleta electoral

November 2, 2023 at 7:31 p.m.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, EE.UU. — Los jueces de la Corte Suprema de Minnesota se mostraron escépticos el jueves respecto de que los estados tengan la autoridad para bloquear a Donald Trump de...

People gather in the parking lot of the Hamilton County Board of Elections as people arrive for early in-person voting, in Cincinnati, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. They urge people to vote for or against the measure known as Issue 1. Issue 1 is the only abortion question on any state ballot this year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

An Ohio amendment serves as a testing ground for statewide abortion fights expected in 2024

November 3, 2023 at 5:42 p.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Abortion access is expected to play a central role in the 2024 elections. The preview comes next week, when Ohio voters decide whether to enshrine reproductive rights in their...

Ronald Fein, attorney for the petitioner, Free Speech for People, gives his ending rebuttal to his case before the Minnesota Supreme Court Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 St. Paul, Minn. The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments to keep former President Trump off the ballot. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP, Pool)

Minnesota justices appear skeptical that states should decide Trump’s eligibility for the ballot

November 2, 2023 at 10:36 p.m.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Thursday that states have the authority to block former President Donald Trump from the ballot, with some suggesting that Congress is best...

Esta imagen muestra una captura de pantalla del sitio web "On The Record", que publica el Senado de Ohio --encabezado por el Partido Republicano-- y que debutó en septiembre. El sitio web gubernamental, favorecido en las búsquedas en internet por su supuesta autoridad e imparcialidad, presenta argumentos engañosos en torno a la propuesta de enmienda constitucional sobre el derecho al aborto que se someterá al voto este otoño. (Senado de Ohio vía AP)

Fluye la desinformacion antes de voto en Ohio sobre el aborto, y un sitio web legislativo contribuye

October 27, 2023 at 11:43 p.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, EE.UU. — El lenguaje incendiario en contra de una medida de derechos reproductivos en la votación de Ohio en otoño es el tipo de mensaje que suele caracterizar las últimas...

FILE - Marchers move down Front Street during the Ohio March for Life after a rally at the Ohio State House in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Misinformation is flowing ahead of Ohio abortion vote. Some is coming from a legislative website

October 28, 2023 at 12:42 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The inflammatory language targeting a reproductive rights measure on Ohio's fall ballot is the type of messaging that is common in the closing weeks of a highly contested initiative...

Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilcrhist, left, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and attorney general Dana Nessel attend a community event at Congregation Shaarey Zedek, in Southfield, Michigan on October 9, 2023. Many top Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Whitmer, took part in a huge pro-Israel rally near Detroit after the Hamas Oct. 7 attack on the country. None of them attended a rally in nearby Dearborn the next day to show for Palestinians in Gaza being killed or forced from their homes by the Israeli military’s response. The war has inflamed tensions between Jews and Muslims everywhere, including the Detroit area, which is home to several heavily Jewish suburbs and Dearborn, the city with the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the U.S. (David Guralnick/Detroit News via AP)

Democrats’ divisions on Israel-Hamas war boil over in Michigan as Detroit-area Muslims feel betrayed

October 26, 2023 at 4:11 a.m.

DEARBORN, Michigan — Many of Michigan's top Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, took part in a huge pro-Israel rally at a suburban Detroit synagogue days after Hamas' deadly attack on the country...

Kathy Bernier, directora estatal del organismo sin fines de lucro Keep Our Republic (Mantenga nuestra república), habla durante un evento con la comunidad organizado por ese grupo, el lunes 25 de septiembre de 2023, en Suamico, Wisconsin. (AP Foto/Mike Roemer)

Pocos republicanos confian en las elecciones. Es un largo camino para grupo que intenta cambiar eso

October 16, 2023 at 11:22 p.m.

SUAMICO, Wisconsin, EE.UU. — Kim Pytleski apenas pudo dormir la noche anterior. Repasó la presentación de PowerPoint, preparó su cuaderno y respiró hondo.La funcionaria de un condado rural de Wisconsin, al norte...

Kathy Bernier, state director of the nonprofit Keep Our Republic, talks during a community engagement event led by the grassroots group on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, in Suamico, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Few Republicans have confidence in elections. It’s a long road for one group trying to change that

October 16, 2023 at 10:54 a.m.

SUAMICO, Wis. — Kim Pytleski could barely sleep the night before. She replayed the PowerPoint slides in her head, packed her notebook and took a deep breath.The clerk from a rural Wisconsin...

Carteles a favor y en contra de una propuesta de enmienda constitucional para proteger el derecho al aborto en Ohio frente a la Junta Electoral del Condado de Greene en Xenia, Ohio, el miércoles 11 de octubre de 2023, el primer día de votación en persona. (AP Foto/Julie Carr Smyth)

Mientras Ohio se enfila a votar sobre el derecho al aborto, pulula la desinformacion

October 13, 2023 at 1:14 a.m.

La enmienda constitucional con la que se pretende garantizar el al derecho a la interrupción del embarazo en Ohio ha estado alimentando afirmaciones engañosas sobre cómo podría influir en...

Signs for and against a proposed constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Ohio stand in front of the Greene County Board of Elections in Xenia, Ohio, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, the first day of in-person voting. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Ohio is about to vote on abortion rights. Misinformation about the proposal is rampant

November 2, 2023 at 4:40 a.m.

As Ohio residents prepare to conclude voting on a constitutional amendment that would guarantee access to abortion in the state, they're encountering an array of misleading claims over how it...

FILE - Attendees pray during a "rosary rally" on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023, in Norwood, Ohio. As the campaigning for and against the nation’s latest tug-of-war over abortion begins in earnest this weekend, Ohio voters are getting a different message from the measure’s opponents. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

An Ohio ballot measure seeks to protect abortion access. Opponents’ messaging is on parental rights

September 2, 2023 at 10:49 p.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The wording of a proposed constitutional amendment on Ohio's fall ballot to ensure abortion rights seems straightforward: It would enshrine the right “to make and carry out one's own...

Texas man pleads guilty to threatening Georgia public officials after 2020 election

September 1, 2023 at 9:43 p.m.

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to threatening Georgia officials following the 2020 election, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.Chad Stark, 55, of Leander, Texas, pleaded guilty Thursday to one...

FILE - Standing in the mid-afternoon heat, a worker takes a break to drink during a parking lot asphalt resurfacing job in Richardson, Texas, June 20, 2023. While unrelenting heat set in across Texas this summer, opponents of a sweeping new law targeting local regulations took to the airwaves and internet with an alarming message: outdoor workers would be banned from taking water breaks. Workers would die, experts and advocates said, with high temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and staying there for much of the past two months. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Texas judge rules as unconstitutional a law that erodes city regulations in favor of state control

August 30, 2023 at 11:00 p.m.

CHICAGO — A Texas judge ruled Wednesday that a new law eroding the power of the state's Democratic-led cities to impose local regulations on everything from tenant evictions to employee sick leave...

This image from video provided by Faces of Choice, shows Miriam "Penny" Hopper. During last week's GOP presidential debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dodged a question about a federal abortion ban by telling a story about Penny, a woman he knew, who he claimed survived despite multiple abortion attempts. The Associated Press has since found that while the woman he referenced is real, her story from the 1950s is far more nuanced than DeSantis made it sound and is not the only of her birth. (Faces of Choice via AP)

Abortion anecdote from DeSantis at GOP debate is more complex than he made it sound

August 30, 2023 at 7:01 p.m.

MIAMI — When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was asked during last week’s GOP presidential debate whether he would nationwide abortion restrictions, he instead offered a startling anecdote.“I know a lady in...

Would a Texas law take away workers’ water breaks? A closer look at House Bill 2127

August 19, 2023 at 2:30 p.m.

As unrelenting heat set in across Texas this summer, opponents of a sweeping new law targeting local regulations took to the airwaves and internet with an alarming message: outdoor workers...

Ohio vote shows enduring power of abortion rights at ballot box, giving Democrats a path in 2024

August 10, 2023 at 12:11 a.m.

CHICAGO — Abortion wasn't technically on the ballot in Ohio's special election. But the overwhelming defeat of a measure that would have made it tougher to enshrine abortion rights in the state...

In this image provided by Sarah Shah, the advocacy group Indian American Impact, which runs the fact-checking site Desifacts.org, es out Parle-G cookies with voting plan stickers at a Diwali even in Doylestown, Pa., on Oct. 23, 2022. Community organizations are gearing up for what they expect will be a worsening onslaught of disinformation targeting voters of color as the 2024 election approaches. (Sarah Shah via AP)

Election disinformation campaigns targeted voters of color in 2020. Experts expect 2024 to be worse

July 29, 2023 at 4:08 a.m.

CHICAGO — Leading up to the 2020 election, Facebook ads targeting Latino and Asian American voters described Joe Biden as a communist. A local station claimed a Black Lives Matter co-founder practiced...

In this photo provided by Tanya Hayles, Hayles poses with her son Jackson, 7, in this undated photo. Hayles, founder of Black Moms Connection, an online network of more than 16,000 Black mothers with chapters across North America and Asia, said she has noticed discussions among about how remote learning has allowed Black mothers to better shield their children from racism. (Courtesy of Tanya Hayles via AP)

Some Black parents say remote learning gives racism reprieve

May 4, 2021 at 3:14 p.m.

CHICAGO — Before schools shuttered during the pandemic, Ayaana Johnson worried every time she dropped her daughters off at school.Johnson, a Black woman, says racism is rampant in her predominantly white Georgia...

Tombstones at the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Many Black Americans excluded from white-owned cemeteries built their own burial spaces, and their descendants are working to preserve the grounds. Racism still haunts these cemeteries, though. Many are at risk of being lost and lack the other cemeteries have received. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Black cemeteries are reflection of deep segregation history

April 29, 2021 at 3:57 p.m.

CHICAGO — As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root.When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery...

FILE- Historical interpreter Robert Watson, center, works a field as a group of visitors watches on the Great Hopes Plantation at Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Va., on May 19, 2005. Colonial Williamsburg is an immersive living-history museum where costumed interpreters of history reenact scenes and portray figures from that period. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Many history interpreters of color carry weight of racism

March 27, 2021 at 1:22 p.m.

Stephen Seals stood onstage waiting to be auctioned off. Moments later, a white slave auctioneer pointed a gun at one of the other Black men gathered with Seals, and a...

Mujeres asiaticas dicen que tiroteos apuntan a racismo

March 20, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.

Para Christine Liwag Dixon y otras, los tiroteos en Georgia que mataron a seis mujeres asiáticas fueron un capítulo nuevo y horrible en la vergonzosa historia de la reducción de...

FILE - In this March 17, 2021, file photo, council member Helen Gym address community during a vigil to mourn and confront the rising violence against Asian Americans at the 10th Street Plaza in Philadelphia. A deadly rampage at three Georgia massage businesses, where the employees were mostly of Asian descent, has prompted Asian American women to openly share stories of being sexually harassed or demeaned based on their race. (Joe Lamberti/Camden Courier-Post via AP, File)

Asian women say shootings point to relentless, racist tropes

March 20, 2021 at 3:32 p.m.

For Christine Liwag Dixon and others, the bloodshed in Georgia — six Asian women among the dead, allegedly killed by a man who blamed his “sexual addiction” — was a...

FILE - In this March 13, 2021, file photo, Chinese-Japanese American student Kara Chu, 18, holds a pair of heart balloons decorated by herself for the rally "Love Our Communities: Build Collective Power" to raise awareness of anti-Asian violence outside the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. The shootings at three Georgia massage parlors and spas Tuesday, March 16, that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, come on the heels of a recent wave of attacks against Asian Americans since the coronavirus first entered the United States. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

EXPLAINER: Why Georgia attack spurs fears in Asian Americans

March 18, 2021 at 12:38 a.m.

Chicago — The shootings at three Georgia massage parlors and spas that left eight people dead, six of them women of Asian descent, come on the heels of a recent wave of...

La trabajadora social Deana Ayers posa para una foto en Minneapolis el 11 de enero del 2021. Ayers dice que la colaboración entre los trabajadores sociales y la policía perpetúa el racismo sistémico de esas dos instituciones. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Trabajadores sociales se replantean colaboracion con policia

March 17, 2021 at 7:59 p.m.

CHICAGO — Rayshard Brooks murió en agosto del año pasado cuando la policía de Atlanta respondió a una llamada en la que se informó que había un hombre durmiendo en un automóvil...

Licensed social worker Deana Ayers poses Jan. 11, 2021 in Minneapolis. Ayers said collaboration between police and social workers risks perpetuating the systemic racism she has seen in the social work field. "Putting social workers in to heal all the wounds as a Band-Aid is just going to blow up in everyone's face," she said. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Collaboration with police divides social workers across US

March 17, 2021 at 11:40 a.m.

CHICAGO — Rayshard Brooks was killed last June when Atlanta police responding to a report of a man asleep in a car blocking a drive-thru shot him as he tried to run...

In this 2018 photo provided by Children's Aid, Nina Crews, illustrator of "A Girl Like Me," reads to children at an early childhood education center. Crews said the work of independent publishers and grassroots organizers are vital in bringing more racial diversity into children's books. (Adriana Alba/Children’s Aid via AP)

Racial diversity in children’s books grows, but slowly

March 16, 2021 at 2:13 p.m.

CHICAGO — In the world of children's books, villagers can protect their water from a black snake, dark skin is as beautiful as the night sky, and a little girl's two puffs...

ARCHIVO – En esta imagen proporcionada por Harpo Productions el príncipe Enrique, izquierda, y Meghan la duquesa de Sussex, centro, en una entrevista con Oprah Winfrey. Casi tan pronto como se transmitió la entrevista de Meghan y el príncipe Enrique con Oprah Winfrey, muchos se apresuraron a negar las acusaciones de racismo que Meghan dice que la llevaron a tener pensamientos suicidas. (Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP, archivo)

Invalidacion de reclamos de Meghan hiere a mujeres negras

March 10, 2021 at 11:18 p.m.

CHICAGO — La entrevista del príncipe Enrique y Meghan sigue reverberando a nivel internacional, y ha dejado a más de 50 millones de espectadores tratando de comprender las acusaciones de racismo y...

FILE - This image provided by Harpo Productions shows Prince Harry, from left, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, in conversation with Oprah Winfrey. Almost as soon as the interview aired, many were quick to deny Meghan’s allegations of racism on social media. Many say it was painful to watch Meghan's experiences with racism invalidated by the royal family, of the media and the public, offering up yet another example of a Black woman's experience being disregarded and denied. (Joe Pugliese/Harpo Productions via AP, File)

Invalidations of Meghan’s claims of racism hurt Black women

March 10, 2021 at 9:33 p.m.

CHICAGO — As Prince Harry and Meghan’s TV interview reverberates internationally, it’s left the more than 50 million viewers grappling with the couple’s claims of racism and lack of that Meghan...

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2020, file photo, Tony A. (Naschio) Johnson, center, elected chairman of the Chinook Indian Nation, plays a drum as he leads tribal and ers as they march to the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Wash., as they continue their efforts to regain federal recognition. As COVID-19 disproportionately affects Native American communities, many tribal leaders say the pandemic poses particular risks to tribes without federal recognition. The Chinook Nation received some federal funding through a local nonprofit for small tribes to distribute food to elders and help with electricity bills, tribal Johnson said. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Pandemic leaves tribes without US recognition at higher risk

February 27, 2021 at 5:52 p.m.

Rachel Lynne Cushman is used to getting calls from Chinook Nation worried about losing housing or having their power shut off. Since COVID-19 hit, they come in daily.Cushman is...

FILE - In this April 12, 2019, file photo, people enter the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta. A new center for training Black entrepreneurs will be opening in Atlanta as part of a collaboration announced Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, between Spelman College, Morehouse College and an advocacy organization made up of business leaders. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Colleges to house new center that trains Black entrepreneurs

February 22, 2021 at 2:33 p.m.

CHICAGO — A new center for training Black entrepreneurs will be opening in Atlanta as part of a collaboration announced Monday between Spelman College, Morehouse College and an advocacy organization made up...

Universidades historicas negras recibiran subsidios

February 17, 2021 at 12:37 a.m.

CHICAGO — Varias universidades históricas negras de Estados Unidos recibirán subsidios de más de 650.000 dólares para la conservación de sus campus como parte de una iniciativa anunciada el martes.The Associated Press...

A sign is displayed at Spelman College on Sept. 26, 2018, Atlanta. Several historically Black colleges and universities, including Spelman College, will receive more than $650,000 in grants to preserve their campuses as part of a new initiative announced Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Historic Black colleges to get $650,000 to preserve campuses

February 17, 2021 at 1:12 a.m.

CHICAGO — Several historically Black colleges and universities will receive more than $650,000 in grants to preserve their campuses as part of a new initiative announced Tuesday.The funding for the HBCUs comes...

Estudio: Diversidad en filas policiales mejora tratos

February 11, 2021 at 7:53 p.m.

CHICAGO — En la última década, la muerte de personas a manos de la policía —como el caso de George Floyd en 2020— han repercutido fuertemente en todo el país, provocado grandes...

Law enforcement diversity may improve policing, study shows

February 12, 2021 at 2:20 a.m.

CHICAGO — In the last decade, high-profile police killings — including George Floyd in 2020 — have shaken the nation and led to widespread protests and calls for reform, including hiring more...

In this combination photo, Robyn Sherman appears in a selfie wearing a pink sweater with pearls, from left, a pink sweater and pearls appear in an image posted by Andrea Morgan and a selfie of Sondrea Tolbert shows her wearing pink with pearls to celebrate the inauguration of Vice President Kamala Harris. Alpha Kappa Alpha declared on Twitter that Jan. 20 would be Soror Kamala D. Harris Day and encouraged to share photos of their celebrations with the hashtag #KamalaHarrisDay. (Robyn Sherman, from left, Andrea Morgan and Sondrea Tolbert via AP)

AKA sorority celebrate Kamala Harris inauguration

January 21, 2021 at 8:24 p.m.

CHICAGO — Elizabeth Shelby had her inauguration outfit planned weeks in advance: blue jeans, a Kamala Harris sweatshirt, a green coat, and pink Chuck Taylors as an homage to her sorority’s colors...

In this October 2019 photo provided by Pocho Sanchez, Daniela Dominguez, assistant professor in counseling psychology at University of San Francisco, draws and chats with children from Honduras at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico. Dominguez said mutual aid networks are part of the Latino culture where people may feel safer getting help from their own community rather than government entities or formal charities. (Pocho Sanchez via AP)

Mutual aid networks find roots in communities of color

January 21, 2021 at 4:16 p.m.

Amid the unfolding disaster of COVID-19 have been moments of generosity, whether it's people pulling together for college students who've been tossed out of dorms, or collecting money to...

Partidarios de Donald Trump portan banderas de la vieja Confederación sureña al tomar por asalto el Congreso de EEUU el 6 de enero del 2021 en Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Potentes simbolos de supremacismo blanco en toma de Congreso

January 14, 2021 at 10:04 p.m.

Entre las banderas de Estados Unidos y de Trump 2020 que portaban los manifestantes que se presentaron en el Capitolio la semana pasada había otros símbolos mucho más siniestros: Un...

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, ers of President Donald Trump participate in a rally in Washington. Both within and outside the walls of the Capitol, banners and symbols of white supremacy and anti-government extremism were displayed as an insurrectionist mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Years of white supremacy threats culminated in Capitol riots

January 14, 2021 at 5:09 p.m.

CHICAGO — Amid the American flags and Trump 2020 posters at the U.S. Capitol during last week's insurrection were far more sinister symbols: A man walking the halls of Congress carrying a...

FILE - In this April 23, 2020, file photo, Team Rubicon volunteer, EMT Hannah Tellier, from Boston, holds a COVID-19 test in the emergency room of the Kayenta Health Center on the Navajo reservation in Kayenta, Ariz. Across the nation, Native American tribes are working to protect their oldest from the coronavirus. The effort is about more than protecting lives. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Tribes try to shield elders and their knowledge from virus

December 27, 2020 at 3:46 p.m.

As Monica Harvey watched, crowds flocked to a Sam's Club in northern Arizona where she works, picking shelves clean of toilet paper and canned goods. Native American seniors couldn't move...

Benny Yun, owner of Yang Chow restaurant, left, delivers a take-out order in Los Angeles, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Bigotry toward Asian Americans and Asian food has spread steadily alongside the coronavirus in the United States. Yun said even though his businesses have survived the pandemic, they get prank calls almost daily asking if they have dog or cat on the menu or impersonating a thick Asian accent. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Racism targets Asian food, business during COVID-19 pandemic

December 20, 2020 at 5:19 p.m.

As the coronavirus spread throughout the U.S., bigotry toward Asian Americans was not far behind, fueled by the news that COVID-19 first appeared in China. Some initial evidence suggested the...

Leesa Kelly, left, walks past plywood mural boards as she and Kenda Zellner-Smith, background right, and volunteers meet at a warehouse, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, in Minneapolis to organize them. The two women formed the Save the Boards to Memorialize the Movement to preserve the painted expressions and pain born of outrage after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Artists, activists rush to save Black Lives Matter murals

December 13, 2020 at 3:04 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS — Neither woman could bring themselves to watch the video of George Floyd’s final moments, his neck pinned under a Minneapolis police officer’s knee. But as their city grieved, Leesa Kelly...

Mary De La Rosa se hamaca en un columpio de su casa de Los Ángeles, donde funcionaba una guardería infantil que tuvo que cerrar definitivamente en medio de la pandemia del coronavirus. Foto del 21 de octubre del 2020. (AP-Poto/Damian Dovarganes)

Guarderias hispanas de EUA luchan por sobrevivir al COVID

December 7, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS — Cuando Mary de la Rosa cerró su guardería en marzo por la pandemia del coronavirus, pensó que pronto volvería a recibir a los 14 niños que cuidaba. Pero no fue...

Mary De La Rosa stands inside a play structure in her home backyard, that once housed the now-closed child care program, Creative Explorers, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Los Angeles. When De La Rosa closed her toddler and preschool program in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, she fully expected to serve the children again some day. In the end, though, Creative Explorers closed for good. The story of De La Rosa’s program is being repeated across the country as the pandemic’s effects ripple through child care, disproportionately affecting Black and Latino-owned centers in an industry that has long relied on providers of color. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Coronavirus takes toll on Black, Latino child care providers

December 7, 2020 at 3:07 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS — When Mary De La Rosa closed her toddler and preschool program in March because of the coronavirus pandemic, she fully expected to serve the 14 children again some day. In...

FILE - People wait on a line stretching around a block for a clinic offering COVID-19 testing, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, in the Park Slope area of the Brooklyn borough of New York. The lines for free COVID-19 tests stretch for blocks and hours in cities feeling the dual strain of the coronavirus surge and holiday plans. But $150 or more can buy a spot at the front of the queue. Some are turning to of one of an increasing number of pop-up clinics that promise visitors instant results — at a cost. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Inequality ‘baked into’ virus testing access as cases surge

November 22, 2020 at 7:17 p.m.

The day after Amanda Serulneck found out she might have been exposed to COVID-19, she visited a rapid testing center in New Jersey but was turned away because they ran...

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