Saudi Arabia’s Ban on Woman Drivers Comes to an End

There, under pulsing searchlights and speakers blasting upbeat Arabic music, the women lined up to enter a parking lot that had been converted into an expo featuring an array of driving-related workshops. The festival, with the Arabic tagline Tawakli w Intalki , or "Have Confidence, and Get Out There!" began on June 21, with similar expos opening in several other Saudi cities, ahead of the end of the ban on women drivers in the Kingdom scheduled for June 24. At the expo, the guests, most clad in plain black abayas and niqabs , and a few in colorful robes, their hair uncovered, followed female guides from station to station, pausing for presentations on car maintenance, traffic etiquette, and basic technique.

Slaughter farm hit with 2-week shutdown over abuse

After a Blood Farm employee was seen allegedly hitting a pig destined for slaughter in the head, a federal Food Service Inspection Service inspector warned him the abuse was unacceptable. The USDA, however, as well as the family that has run the business for generations, felt otherwise.

The ‘Black Panther’ actor who is an undocumented ‘Dreamer’

In reality, the Ivorian actor is living in limbo in the United States as an undocumented immigrant. The 36-year-old Bamba, who most recently appeared in "Black Panther," is one of 700,000 "Dreamers" -- immigrants brought illegally to America as children who were protected by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Detention centers fill up; border detainees sent to prisons

More than 1,600 people arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border, including parents who have been separated from their children, are being transferred to federal prisons, U.S. immigration authorities confirmed Thursday. They said they're running out of room at their own facilities amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

UN urges US to stop separating immigrant familiesWhile the Trump…

In this June 18, 2014, file photo, young boys sleep in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. CPB provided media tours Wednesday of two locations in Brownsville and Nogales, Ariz.

Watchdog groups call for IG investigation after Sessions promoted inflated encrypted-phone statistic

The Justice Department's internal watchdog was pressed Monday to probe the circumstances that resulted in Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other top officials repeatedly touting a bogus statistic exaggerating the degree of the "Going Dark" problem posed by digital encryption. A coalition of 21 groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Human Rights Watch wrote the department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, after the FBI admitted last month that the number of encrypted mobile devices federal investigators have lawfully seized but been unable to access data from is "substantially lower" than previously stated.

Activists urge Booker, Menendez to speak on Gaza

Activists urge Cory Booker, Bob Menendez to speak out on Gaza killings Representatives from the senators' offices met with protesters, who hand-delivered a letter on the violence in Gaza. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2LN08zZ Bella August, of Montclair, Alice Golin, of Glen Ridge, and Jon Moscow, of Teaneck, participate in a rally protesting the violence inflicted on Palestinians by the Israeli Occupation Forces at the Gaza border in front of the offices of Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez in Newark, NJ on Wednesday, May 30, 2018.

These youth activists are fighting to lower the federal voting age – and they just might win

From the top left, Andrew Brennen, Lorelei Vaisse, Meritt Jones, Jaden Deal, Eli Frankel, David Adams, Emmanuelle Sippy, Melina Fike. . In the days following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February, 18-year-old student Sofie Whitney suddenly found herself thrust into a turbulent gun control debate.

Emails show cooperation among EPA, climate-change deniers

Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials working closely with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to rally like-minded people for public hearings on science and global warming, counter negative news coverage and tout Administrator Scott Pruitt's stewardship of the agency. John Konkus, EPA's deputy associate administrator for public affairs, repeatedly reached out to senior staffers at the Heartland Institute, according to the emails.

Democrats go all-out to avoid disaster in California House races

National Democrats, confronting political chaos across Southern California, are pouring millions of dollars into congressional races to avert a self-inflicted disaster that could undermine their chances at taking control of the House. After months of optimism that the state's June 5 primary would position them to pick off seven Republican-held districts in November - a substantial down payment on reclaiming the House - Democrats are now trying to ensure that they do not hurt themselves because of their unusually crowded slates of candidates.

Emails show EPA, climate-change deniers liaison

Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials working closely with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to rally like-minded people for public hearings on science and global warming, counter negative news coverage and tout Administrator Scott Pruitt's stewardship of the agency. John Konkus, EPA's deputy associate administrator for public affairs, repeatedly reached out to senior staffers at the Heartland Institute, according to the emails.

Emails show collaboration among EPA, climate-change deniers

Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials collaborating with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to rally like-minded people for public hearings on science and global warming, counter negative news coverage and tout Administrator Scott Pruitt's stewardship of the agency.