The Latvian parliament voted in favor of stripping legal protection from war monuments Latvian lawmakers have overwhelmingly voted to renounce part of a treaty with Russia in which Riga committed to protect and maintain war memorials in the country. Thursday’s move opens the door to the removal of a monument to Soviet soldiers who liberated…

Hundreds of kids died in Native American boarding schools, a US government investigation claims Nearly 500 pupils died while attending federal boarding schools aimed at assimilating Indigenous children, according to an investigative report published by the US Department of the Interior on Wednesday. The findings suggest that, from 1819 to 1969, several generations of Native…

The US Senate on Wednesday voted against a bill that would have legalized near-unrestricted abortion access. The bill was brought to a vote by Democrats after a leaked draft opinion suggested that the US Supreme Court was about to strike down Roe v. Wade, a ruling that has guaranteed abortion access since 1973.