A 25-year-old woman who sparked a police search and national media headlines when she disappeared from an Alabama highway Thursday has turned up unharmed at her nearby home, police said Sunday.
Carlee Russell was reported missing Thursday after she called police and her family to report a claim that she saw a toddler walking along the…
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A 2020 report by Human Rights Watch has revealed how four decades of war have left Afghanistan with one of the world’s largest populations per capita for people with disabilities, including many with amputations, vision or hearing problems, and post-traumatic stress disorder. But the true size and circumstances of Afghanistan’s disabled population remain uncertain, since policymaking is…
Meredith Wilson, a teacher in Seattle, said "Historically privileged, either privileged socioeconomically and racially white people, rich people, have always had options. Abortion isn't just new for a lower income or black and brown women. I think it's for all women. But having this access to an abortion pill gives black and brown and lower…
Dilma Mendes does not remember how many times she was arrested as a child. Her crime? Playing football in Brazil.
The country may be synonymous with the beautiful game, but it banned women from the sport for nearly four decades until 1979.
Ahead of the Women's World Cup starting next week in Australia and New…
There is a moment, several chapters into Elizabeth Winder’s “Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones” that quietly justifies the book’s existence. In the biographical introduction of the section about aspiring R&B artist Marsha Hunt — before her life is rerouted by bearing Mick Jagger’s…
Youth is still prized as a superpower in society, including where you work. Research has found that people are more likely to automatically assume you are more ambitious, intelligent and tech-savvy when you are thought to be younger.
But in the workplace, being young or looking young can also be wielded against women.
In a new preliminary study featured…
Suspected pedophile and former fashion mogul Peter Nygard was arrested on more sex crime charges, this time for a 1993 case in which he’s accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old at his company’s headquarters in Canada.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, police obtained an arrest warrant on Monday for city native Nygard, 81, after months of investigation into…
Some experts are questioning whether a newly approved Alzheimer's drug was shown in clinical trials to be less effective on women — even though the FDA didn't flag any such concerns when it was authorized last week.
Why it matters: Nearly two-thirds of Americans living with Alzheimer's disease are female, according to the Alzheimer's Association. The $26,500 drug, Leqembi,…
2020 was a bad year for everyone, but it was especially tough for working women. The COVID-19 shutdowns led to mass layoffs in female-dominated sectors of the economy, from healthcare to hospitality, while school and daycare closings made it virtually impossible for mothers with young kids to hold on to their jobs. Millions of women…
There's no rhyme or reason to the given reasons for why the House Freedom Caucus ousted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., last week. She should be right at home in a group established to draw the House GOP to the right. After all, she's one of the nuttiest members in historical memory, an avid fan of…