Tag: Philanthropy
IEP – ‘The Great Fragmentation’ Driving Conflict: World Peace Plummets
LONDON, June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The 2025 Global Peace Index (GPI), released today by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), reveals a continuing decline in global peacefulness, with many key indicators that precede major conflicts higher than at any time since World War II. Rising conflict deaths, accelerating geopolitical tensions, and middle power…
Protests, parades and Pride: One week in June 2025 is drawing stark American fault lines
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — On the first weekend: a vision of the nation built upon inclusivity and the tenets of liberalism — a conception of country that incorporates generations of fights for equity, for compassion, for expanding what it means to be an American. On the second weekend, in the same town: a public…
Supreme Court sides with Catholic Charities in case over unemployment taxes
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says a Catholic charity in Wisconsin doesn’t have to pay unemployment taxes in one of a set of religious-rights cases the justices are considering this term. The Thursday ruling comes in a case filed by the Catholic Charities Bureau. The organization says the state violated the First Amendment’s religious freedom…
Looking for a new job? These businesses might be the best bets
In the past weeks, hundreds of thousands of students earned diplomas from colleges and universities across the country. But for many, the biggest challenge still lies ahead: landing a job in their major. From the rise of artificial intelligence to uncertainly surrounding President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, the opportunities for the newly minted graduates could…
Trump-backed Gaza aid plan marred by stampede
People stampeded and shots were fired as a Trump-backed plan to distribute food in Gaza at sites guarded by armed contractors got underway. Israel prepares to ‘conquer’ and ‘clear out’ all of Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to “take over” Gaza and move the civilian population southward. “We are taking control…