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City donates 33 bison to rebuild Native American herds

The City and County of Denver is giving bison from its mountain park herd to three indigenous tribes. Those bison will head to tribal lands across the West.

READ: Ketanji Brown Jackson's opening statement at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Below is the text of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's opening statement at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing, as prepared for delivery:

Google settles with 6 engineers who alleged they faced retaliation for organizing

Google has reached a settlement with six engineers who alleged the company unlawfully retaliated against them over their workplace organizing efforts.

Apple services including App Store, Apple Music and iCloud hit by brief outage

A number of Apple services were hit by a short-lived outage for some users on Monday afternoon.

Spring equinox 2022: At last! The first day of spring

Few of us will ever have a way with words as Emily Dickinson, the Belle of Amherst, did:

Alcohol-related deaths in the US spiked more than 25% in the first year of the pandemic, study shows

The number of deaths in the US involving alcohol jumped 25.5% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Young people need us to see them as they are, and adults are off the mark, a study say

There is more we can do to make our kids feel seen, accepted and secure -- and it starts with adding more terms for gender identity and sexual orientation to the official forms we give them, according to a new …

Woman's sitting room in ruins after car smashes into house; neighbors say it was a race gone wrong

The front of a house in Norwood Park had been left wrecked and unstable Friday night, a night after a driver lost control and slammed into the home.

OB-GYN fired after reporting allegation of sexual assault by colleague speaks out

An OB-GYN doctor is speaking out for the first time after she reported an allegation of sexual assault by one of her male colleagues and was later fired.

SpaceX will now launch satellites for top space broadband competitor, OneWeb

SpaceX has a new deal to launch internet-beaming satellites for its chief competitor in the satellite business — British company OneWeb.

Match launches new dating app for single parents

Match on Monday rolled out a new service called Stir that aims to remove some of the barriers around dating as a single parent.

Ruling in Doe v. Mayorkas Ensures Individuals Seeking Asylum and Forced into MPP Can Continue Their Fight for Access to Counsel

This week, Judge Dana Sabraw rejected the Biden Administration’s attempts to indefinitely stay or dismiss Doe v. Mayorkas, a case challenging the government’s practice of denying access to counsel to people fleeing persecution who are forced to undergo nonrefoulement interviews …

First Sculpture of a Latina in the City of Houston Coming to the Center for Pursuit's New Campus

The Zenteno Sculpture Project, depicting Houston singer and songwriter Norma Zenteno, will be placed on the new campus of The Center for Pursuit, 4400 Harrisburg Blvd., in East End Houston. A formal presentation of the sculpture by Houston-based artist and …

Joint Statement by Congressman Al Green (TX-09), Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18)

“The people have suffered long enough. The people of Texas in general, and Harris County more specifically, have suffered long enough. It has been more than four years since Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston and Harris County.

Rustika Café and Bakery Welcomes New Multi-Unit Manager

Rustika Café and Bakery announced today that the company has hired Latonya Prophet as its new multi-unit manager.