Poll: Support for Black Lives Matter grows among white youth
By JESSE J. HOLLAND and EMILY SWANSON Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased among young white adults, according to a poll that suggests a majority of white,…
Teen welfare
Poll: Young Americans overwhelmingly favor LGBT rights
By SARAH GRACE TAYLOR and EMILY SWANSON Young people in America overwhelmingly support LGBT rights when it comes to policies on employment, health care and adoption, according to a new…
Young Americans fear US, foreign-inspired extremists
By MELINDA DESLATTE The threat of violence by people inspired by foreign extremists invokes fear in a majority of young Americans across racial groups. But for young people of color,…
Poll: Police harassment familiar to young blacks, Hispanics
By COREY WILLIAMS and EMILY SWANSON Crystal Webb cringes whenever a patrol car appears in her rearview mirror. She also never wants to see the inside of a police station…
Israel has failed to reform Jewish radicals, critics charge
By DANIEL ESTRIN The Israeli government initiative has a soothing biblical name, the Hebrew Shepherd, and a serious aim: to keep ultranationalist Jewish settler youths from turning to violence and…
SOUTHWEST, SOUTH SCORE LOW ON CHILD-WELFARE INDEX
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Several states in the Deep South and Southwest have earned dismal scores on an annual child-welfare index that cited poverty and single-parent house households as worrisome…
BOY WHO KILLED NAZI DAD AT AGE 10 TO BE SENTENCED
By AMY TAXIN and GILLIAN FLACCUS FILE – In this Oct. 22, 2010 file photo, Jeff Hall, who was killed by his son, holds a Neo Nazi flag while standing…
REPORT: UNDERAGE TOBACCO SALES AT RECORD LOWS
By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM FILE – In this Friday, Feb. 28, 1997 file photo, a sign warns minors tobacco will not be sold to them at Montgomery Grocery, in Little Hickman,…