Librarians and publishers gathered in Philadelphia for this year’s American Library Association annual meeting, held June 26–30, where dozens of authors and illustrators were also in attendance, ...

What the new aid plan would look like Gaza's population would be forced to move south in order to receive aid in a new zone cordoned off by Israel's military, to prevent Hamas members from access ...

15 first responders killed in Rafah, U.N. says; IDF orders mass evacuation Aid agencies say the workers were killed and buried in a mass grave in Rafah in southern Gaza. Residents described being ...

Palestinians line up for water next to a distribution truck at a displacement camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan condemned Israel's decision to cut ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs will begin mass layoffs at the politically sensitive agency as early as June, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters. The memo, which is dated March 6, directs ...

Book Bans Rising Rapidly in the U.S., Free Speech Groups Find A new report from PEN America, the free speech organization, details a new rise of censorship efforts across the United States.

TEMPE, Ariz. — President Joe Biden on Thursday called his once-and-perhaps-future opponent Donald Trump a direct threat to American democracy in the most forceful condemnation of the former ...

Book bans are rising at a rapid pace in school districts around the United States, driven by new laws and regulations that limit what kinds of books children can access, according to a new report ...

At the time of the book’s release in 2015, the School Library Journal, a magazine that districts rely on to select library books, wrote that the dearth of “sex positive queer literature ...