Tag: Social services
WH response to abuse claims shines light on victims’ fears
WASHINGTON (AP) - When Jennifer Willoughby and Colbie Holderness stepped forward to tell the story of how they were physically, verbally and emotionally abused...
Woman delivering meals to the homeless attacked with machete
SHELBURNE, Vt. (AP) - Police say a man in Vermont has used a machete to attack a woman in her 70s as she delivered...
US sees surge in women interested in running for office
ATLANTA (AP) - Inside a classroom at a community college in Dallas, about two dozen women took turns sharing their names, hometowns and what...
Cities, volunteers clash over feeding homeless in public
ATLANTA (AP) - When Adele MacLean joined others in an Atlanta park to feed the hungry the Sunday before Thanksgiving, she left with a...
Cities, volunteers clash over feeding homeless in public
ATLANTA (AP) - When Adele MacLean joined others in an Atlanta park to feed the hungry the Sunday before Thanksgiving, she left with a...
Yellow wristbands, segregation for Florida homeless in Irma
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) - Shelby Hoogendyk says that when she, her husband and her 17-month-old son arrived at an emergency shelter as Hurricane...
Satellite images show sprawling Rohingya refugee camps
Massive, makeshift refugee camps are sprawling over farms and open land in southern Bangladesh as more than 420,000 Rohingya Muslims flee violent attacks in...
Satellite images show sprawling Rohingya refugee camps
Massive, makeshift refugee camps are sprawling over farms and open land in southern Bangladesh as more than 420,000 Rohingya Muslims flee violent attacks in...
Satellite images show sprawling Rohingya refugee camps
Before-and-after satellite images released to The Associated Press show refugee camps in Bangladesh growing dramatically since Rohingya Muslims began fleeing violence last month in...
Fleeing Rohingya Muslims watch as homes burn in Myanmar
TUMBRU, Bangladesh (AP) - Days after fleeing their village on the Myanmar side of the border fence, a group of Rohingya Muslims watched from...