#Social Issues

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• 🇺🇸 Shortlisted for an Oscar, 'Homebound' is a daring movie about two dear friends — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The movie, now streaming on Netflix, defied current trends in Indian cinema to tell the true story of a friendship between a Muslim and a Hindu Dalit. Martin Scorsese was secretly involved.

  Related: #Cinema, #Friendship
• 🇺🇸 War with Iran is sparking an antisemitic chain reaction — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  The idea that Jews manipulate powerful governments into waging war for their own self interest has fueled antisemitic conspiracy theories for centuries.

  Related: #Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 Warren endorses Platner in Maine Senate primary after Mills rips him for remarks on rape — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts endorsed Graham Platner's Senate bid in Maine on Thursday, offering him some political cover just days after Gov. Janet Mills launched an ad targeting his past o...

  Related: #Political Endorsements
• 🇺🇸 Anjali Patil’s ‘Selvi’ Explores Homecare Nurses’ Silent Struggles — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Anjali Patil, who co-produced “The Shadowbox,” which played at Berlin in 2025, is producing Sailesh Rathnakumar’s debut feature “Selvi,” a work-in-progress project selected for the 24th Hong Kong-Asia...

  Related: #Healthcare
• 🇺🇸 Growing Up Behind Walls | Sunday on 60 Minutes — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  You rarely hear a hopeful story coming from Haiti. Sunday, Anderson Cooper reports on an orphanage caring for the country's most vulnerable children, giving them safety, stability, and a path to colle...

  Related: #Child Development
• 🇺🇸 ‘Soldiers can't solve drug addictions or the flow of illegal weapons’ — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  'If Mexico is the epicenter of drug cartels, as President Trump insists, then the U.S. is the epicenter of drug abuse and supplier of cartel weapons and wealth,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

  Related: #Military Policy
• 🇬🇧 Princess Eugenie steps down from anti-slavery charity — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  She had been patron of human rights organisation Anti-Slavery International for seven years.

  Related: #Royalty, #Charity
• 🇺🇸 3/8: Sunday Morning — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Hosted by Lee Cowan. Featured: The first 50 years of Apple; Viola Davis and co-writer James Patterson; "NCIS"; the persistence of hunger in America; former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein; and the a...

  Related: #Technology, #Entertainment, #Business
• 🇺🇸 Shot by gang members, these Paralympians are making history — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  David Chávez and Jonathan Arias were both paralyzed after being shot by gang members in their youth in El Salvador. Now they are in the Paralympic Winter Games.

  Related: #Resilience, #Sports History
• 🇺🇸 Seth MacFarlane on ‘Ted’ Season 2’s Abortion Episode, Using AI to Play Bill Clinton and That Final Scene — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  The Peacock series' creator and voice star tells The Hollywood Reporter why a surprise cameo impacts the chances for season three: "The book is sort of closed."

  Related: #Entertainment, #Technology
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Ceremony’ Filmmakers On Shining A “Nuanced” Light Migrants, BAFTA Nomination & Future Projects — 02/03/2026 [USA]

  You can’t always live in the past. In some cases, reinvention and the suppression of the emotional baggage you carry are the only things essential to your survival. Writer-director Jack King’s The Cer...

  Related: #Migration, #Cinema, #Survival
• 🇺🇸 Connor Storrie Brings Out U.S. Women’s and Men’s Olympic Hockey Champions in ‘SNL’ Debut — 01/03/2026 [USA]

  The 26-year-old actor is fresh off his breakout role in the unexpected hit series, ‘Heated Rivalry.’

  Related: #Entertainment, #Sports
• 🇺🇸 Scouting America changing policies to maintain military support, Hegseth says — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Scouting America has agreed to change several of its policies to maintain financial backing from the Pentagon, including that membership in the organization will be based solely on “biological sex at ...

  Related: #Politics, #Military Policy, #Gender Identity
• 🇺🇸 ‘A dangerous thing’: S Africa’s gang-ridden townships fear army deployment — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Critics wary of President Cyril Ramaphosa's move to send military to tackle crime, drugs and gangs in three provinces.

  Related: #Crime and Violence, #Political Response, #Military Intervention
• 🇺🇸 Racial slur is shouted during BAFTAs while 'Sinners' actors are onstage — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  A racial slur was shouted during the BAFTAs while actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were onstage. A spokesperson for the BBC attributed the outbursts to an attendee with Tourette syndrome and ...

  Related: #Entertainment Industry, #Medical Conditions
• 🇺🇸 Inside the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards: Disclaimers, Dirty Jokes and Netflix’s All-Star Afterparty — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  A red-faced Paul Mescal, a royal tribute and a fabulous couple of celebrity cameos: Here's what you might have missed at the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards.

  Related: #Film Awards, #Celebrity Culture, #Political Statements
• 🇬🇧 Families falling apart because of UK’s ‘broken’ paternity leave, study suggests — 12/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>About 39% of separated parents say not sharing caring responsibilities contributed to breakdown of relationship</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/feb/10/keir-sta...

  Related: #Politics, #Family Law
• 🇬🇧 Jim Ratcliffe accused of hypocrisy after saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants — 12/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Manchester United co-owner, who lives in Monaco, faces growing backlash for using ‘far-right narratives’</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/feb/12/uk-politics-lat...

  Related: #Politics, #Immigration
• 🇺🇸 Late Night Boos Pam Bondi’s ‘Bratty’ Behavior — 12/02/2026 [USA]

  “If downplaying international sex rings were an Olympic sport, Bondi would take home the gold,” Jordan Klepper said on “The Daily Show.”

  Related: #Political Commentary, #Media Criticism
• 🇺🇸 How did Jeffrey Epstein make all of his money? — 11/02/2026 [USA]

  Newly released documents are renewing interest in how Jeffrey Epstein amassed his fortune. Here's how he made his money.

  Related: #Finance, #Justice
• 🇬🇧 Gisèle Pelicot describes shock of seeing herself like ‘a rag doll’ in memoir — 11/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Pelicot writes of ‘brain stopping working’ when police told her of crimes of man she shared her life with for 50 years</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/19/gisele-pelicot-su...

  Related: #Justice, #Human Rights
• 🇺🇸 How Hate Groups Are Using Online Games to Recruit Kids — 11/02/2026 [USA]

  Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show.

  Related: #Cybersecurity, #Digital Safety
• 🇺🇸 Former Palm Beach Police Chief Said Trump Told Him ‘Everyone’ Knew About Epstein in 2006 — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  Michael Reiter, a former Palm Beach police chief, described a 2006 conversation with Donald Trump to the F.B.I. years later, according to a newly released document.

  Related: #Legal Investigations, #Politics
• 🇺🇸 Teen killer of schoolboy Leo Ross, 12, to spend at least 13 years in custody — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  Leo Ross is believed to be the youngest victim of knife crime in the West Midlands.

  Related: #Justice, #Crime
• 🇺🇸 Lutnick, Wasserman and others caught up in the Epstein files — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Casey Wasserman, the entertainment mogul, are among facing blowback amid the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

  Related: #Politics, #Justice
• 🇺🇸 Without a Border ‘Invasion,’ Texas G.O.P. Turns to an Old Enemy, Islam — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  Republican politicians and strategists in Texas are amping up anti-Muslim rhetoric as a way to energize Republican voters after several elections when the border was the animating force.

  Related: #Politics, #Elections
• 🇺🇸 Care home closure meant my brother had to move away to die — 10/02/2026 [USA]

  George Mackay was diagnosed with cancer the year after the care home in his remote crofting village had closed.

  Related: #Healthcare, #Rural Affairs
• 🇬🇧 At least 18 people now dead as historic New York cold stretch nears end — 09/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>City faced one of longest periods of subzero cold since 1961, forcing ‘code blue’ and extreme weather warnings</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/homelessness-ne...

  Related: #Public Safety, #Environment
• 🇬🇧 We’ve seen the benefits smaller class sizes bring | Letters — 09/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Readers respond to an editorial about how smaller classes lead to better educational outcomes</p><p>Re your editorial (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/the-guardian-vi...

  Related: #Education, #Politics
• 🇬🇧 Police officers investigated over camp abuse response — 09/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The police watchdog said officers and staff in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire were being investigated.

  Related: #Justice, #Law Enforcement