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Graduate students marched on Kerr Hall, where the administration offices reside, to deliver their demands to the chancellor on Nov. 7. Watching in the foreground, with their backs to the camera, are Chancellor Cynthia Larive and Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer.

'There's Really No Refuge': Santa Cruz Grad Students Strike Amid Housing Crunch

Facing high housing costs, graduate students at University of California, Santa Cruz have demanded better pay and threatened to withhold undergrads' final grades.

City Councilwoman Jen Campbell smiles while attending a trash pick-up in Rose Creek, April 27, 2019.

Recall Campaign For Council President Jennifer Campbell To Officially Begin

A campaign to recall San Diego City Council President Jennifer Campbell will become official when a notice of intent to recall her is published in a legal newspaper Wednesday.

A man receives an injection during the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the 1930s. The U.S. Public Health Service recruited hundreds of rural Black men in 1932 in Tuskegee, Ala. They would offered free meals and checkups, but never explained that participants would be human subjects in a study designed to withhold medical treatment.

In Tuskegee, Painful History Shadows Efforts To Vaccinate African Americans

A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous 20th century U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease.

Near Liu's village, Xiguozhuang was the first village in the township of Yanshi, Shandong, to have its houses torn down. Fewer than a dozen homes remain along the village's main road.

China Speeds Up Drive To Pave Rural Villages, Put Up High-Rises

After quickly building megacities, the country is kicking plans into high gear to revamp tens of thousands of country villages. Residents say they are forced or coerced to leave their farm homes.

In February 2020, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo was praised by the president of the Human Rights Campaign, Alphonso David. David previously served as a legal adviser to Cuomo. Now, critics on the political left and right are calling for both men to resign.

Cuomo Scandal Entangles Leader Of Influential LGBTQ Advocacy Group

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo allegedly relied on liberal allies to fight charges of sexual harassment. Now, one of those allies, the head of Human Rights Campaign, is facing demands that he resign.

A nurse vaccinates a baby against rotavirus, a deadly form of diarrhea.

Merck Pulls Out Of Agreement To Supply Life-Saving Vaccine To Millions Of Kids

The pharmaceutical giant will stop delivering its rotavirus vaccine to four West African countries and will begin to sell it in China for likely more than 10 times the cost.

A shirt and pins that belonged to van Spronsen. He stood up to far-right leaders at local rallies, and he was a fixture at demonstrations against U.S. immigration policies, especially family separation. "Kids in cages," he called it.

'I Am Antifa': One Activist's Violent Death Became A Symbol For The Right And Left

President Trump and his supporters portray antifa as the left's equivalent to deadly far-right extremists. Domestic terrorism data show just one fatality is linked to antifa — the attacker himself.

A traveler waits for a flight at Portland International Airport last week in Oregon. Public health experts say it's important that those who traveled or gathered with others are especially careful over the next two weeks.

So You Traveled Over Thanksgiving. Now What?

Experts suggest being extra-careful over the next week or two if you gathered with others outside your pod. That means masks, getting tested and assuming you might be infected with the coronavirus.

A man uses a tablet device in a subway train in Moscow in 2019. Russia's Internet regulatory agency announced it is slowing Twitter because the company has ignored requests to remove content harmful to children.

Russia Slows Twitter In Blunt Warning To U.S.-Based Social Media Platforms

The country's Internet regulator says Twitter has ignored its requests to remove material it considers harmful to children. The move is part of a larger effort to rein in non-Russian social media.

Cuomo Scandal Entangles Leader Of Influential LGBTQ Advocacy Group

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo allegedly relied on liberal allies to fight charges of sexual harassment. Now, one of those allies, the head of Human Rights Campaign, is facing demands that he resign.

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