Federal officials are finalizing a rule that they say will yield the largest expansion of rights for airline passengers with disabilities in a generation. Under the regulation published this week, the ...
Dec. 16 (UPI) --New protections for people with disabilities on commercial airlines were unveiled Monday to ensure "safe travel with dignity." U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced ...
Federal officials say they will hold off on a plan to fast-track changes to a key disability rights law amid substantial pushback. The U.S. Department of Energy is pumping the brakes on an effort to ...
The Department of Energy is eyeing elimination of a 45-year-old regulation aimed at ensuring new buildings are accessible to disabled people, a move it says will make the private sector more efficient ...
The nine justices currently sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, in 2022. Back row, left to right: Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson; bottom row: ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Ava Tharpe, the ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Back in 2013, the Obama administration introduced a low-profile but deeply impactful ...
Local AFGE chapters call the CDC’s move to halt policy approval of long-term telework as a reasonable accommodation for disabled employees unlawful under federal disability rights law. The American ...
© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. Georgia disability rights advocates are sounding the alarm about a change the U.S. Department of Energy ...
A federal lawsuit filed last week alleges the parking permits for pregnant women violate the federal Americans with ...
O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...