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Gun control across the nation: AMerican flag and a green state flag at half mast against a cloudy sky in front of a domed tan stone building.

States divided on gun controls, even as mass shootings rise

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee was quick to react to this week’s carnage at a Texas elementary school, sending...

New Juvenile Prison: Large, 2story, modern red brick and light cement building with front lawn and low shrubbery

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New, multimillion-dollar jail is no panacea for juvenile offenders

How one prisoner, sentenced as a teen, sees spending millions on new juvenile jail: Replacing an old youth jail with a new...

Indiana Transgender Law Veto: Crowd of adults stand inside a formal classical architecture lobby with ornate columns

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Indiana lawmakers enact trans sports ban with veto override

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Indiana voted Tuesday to override the GOP governor’s veto of a bill banning transgender females...

SBCRelasingList: A cross and Bible sculpture stand in front of multi-story red brick building

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Top Southern Baptists plan to release secret list of abusers

Top administrative leaders for the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret...

Ukraine war and adoption: Dark-haired woman wearing sunglasses and teen bot with dark hair wearing a dark winter jacker and light blue scark giving thumbs up sign sit in front seats of car smiling into camera.

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Adoptions another facet of life halted by war in Ukraine

LEEDS, Maine (AP) — The ripple effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been devastating for families of all kinds — including...

Southern Baptist Offender Man with grey hair and beard wearing dark suit, gestures with right hand while speaking into microphone at podium standing in front of blue SBC banner

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Southern Baptists face push for public list of sex abusers

A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention's mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the...

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School counselors sound cry for help after Buffalo shooting

For many schools, last weekend's shooting rampage in Buffalo, carried out by an 18-year-old who had been flagged for making a threatening...

Southern Baptist sexual abuse investigative report: Red brick multi-story building with large sign saying "Southern Baptist Convention"

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Report: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant denomination, stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades...

Karen Pittman opinion: Black woman with dark-frame glasses an hair pulled back stands leaning against wood porch railing wearing dark jacket and colorful scarf with greenery in the background.

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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Re-centering youth work across systems

I’ve been struck once again this month, while reading Youth Today, by how the stories and commentaries demonstrated the complexity of what...

rural afterschool funding problems: group of children in lifevests playing in water

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Funding, logistics remain challenges to afterschool and summer programs in rural communities

Afterschool Alliance estimates there are 4.5 million rural kids across the country who want to attend afterschool but can't, with low-income families...

2022 national survey on LGBTQ youth mental health: colorful graphic of diverse youth in cartoon style

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2022 National survey on LGBTQ youth mental health

The Trevor Project releases findings from the 2022 edition of its annual National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health.

transgender medication law in Alabama blocked by judge: father and daughter stand outside the White House smiling

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Transgender medication law in Alabama blocked by judge

A federal judge on Friday blocked part of an Alabama law that made it a felony to prescribe gender-affirming puberty blockers and...

Texas ruling allows trans youth parent investigations: demonstrators gather with trans rights and LGBTQ flags on partly cloudy day

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Mixed Texas ruling allows trans youth parent investigations

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday allowed the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse while also ruling in...

From crisis to death: probing teen's last hours: young black teen in vest and tie posing for picture in front of tree

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‘From crisis to death’: Probing teen’s last, desperate hours

Y'all here to protect me," the youth asked the officers, beseechingly. "Right?" The 17-year-old's foster father, unable to deal with a teen...

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Teen farming feeds the needy in touristy corner of Massachusetts

In Brickle’s corner of rural, western Massachusetts, where tourists flock but many locals struggle to make ends meet, she and other 13-...

Native American Boarding School Deaths: Handprinted sign saying "Site mass graves native children,"sits amidst flowers

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US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far

A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society...