Social Issues

It was the first death toll announced by Somalia's government since it declared the drought a national disaster on Tuesday. The United Nations estimates that 5 million people need aid, amid warnings of a full-blown famine.
Arrest made in national threats to Jewish community centers
A former journalist fired for making up stories is behind at least eight of the scores of threats made against Jewish community centers nationwide, plus a bomb threat to New York's Anti-Defamation League, in an effort to harass and vilify his former girlfriend, officials said.
Volunteers hack, scrape and crawl government websites to save data
Fear that environmental data could disappear under the Trump administration has spurred hundreds of volunteer researchers, hackers and archivists to start saving federal data on secure, non-government servers.
Black Lives Matter finds 'renewed focus' 5 years after Trayvon Martin
From the death that sparked a hashtag that became a national movement, Black Lives Matter takes on a new urgency under President Trump. Co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors discusses what lies ahead.