Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste— and why do single-use items ...

Republican Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina is proposing a bill to ban trans people from all federal buildings across the country that detractors say will "not protect or promote anyone's ...

The recent U.S. TikTok ban got the whole world talking and certainly got us thinking. Not many would've thought that an application as popular and ingrained in our lives as TikTok could just be taken ...

PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

Authors say that the effort to ban books about race is "censorship." At the American Library Association, annual reports are collected to monitor efforts by parents and political groups to ban books ...

A free speech advocacy group warned that book censorship in public schools across the United States has become "rampant and common," with book bans increasing significantly over the last few years.

President Donald Trump ordered a travel ban on June 4, barring residents of 12 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East, from entering the United States as a risk to national security. The ban ...