Haleema Shah

2 months ago | prp.fm | Jenna Deml |Haleema Shah

Join us this Sunday, March 2nd at 4pm for Many Roads to Here, a production of The Immigrant Story, capturing the immigrant experience in the U.S. through monthly profiles. Voices from across the globe offer intimate accounts of immigration, war, genocide, and success. Listen live at 99.1 FM in the heart of Portland – or online anywhere at PRP.fm. Mohsin Jamal is a quick learner.

Dec 11, 2024 | vox.com | Haleema Shah

In 2022, the US reached a grim peak in drug overdose deaths: Nearly 108,000 people died that year, more than twice the number who died in 2015, and more than four times the number in 2002. Now, in what experts hope is more than a blip, the overdose epidemic that has affected every state in the nation might be showing some signs of abating. Preliminary CDC data on the 12-month period ending in June showed that overdoses dropped about 15 percentage points from the previous period.

Nov 19, 2024 | vox.com | Haleema Shah |Noel King

Long before he officially pursued the presidency, Donald Trump railed against US trade deals. In interviews dating back to the 1980s, he told journalists that deals that benefited Asian and Middle Eastern trading partners consistently “ripped off” the US. Over decades, that charge may have turned into a winning election strategy.

Oct 12, 2024 | vox.com | Haleema Shah |Noel King

If you were born before the 1990s, your first conversations about puberty (if you had them) might have begun around age 11. That’s because, for decades, puberty was believed to begin at around 11 for girls, and 11 and-a-half for boys. Increasingly, though, that’s no longer the case. Studies in the last 15 years or so show that the process of reproductive maturity is starting much sooner for a growing number of boys and girls, with some girls entering puberty close to 6 or 7 years old.

Sep 16, 2024 | vox.com | Haleema Shah |Noel King

When former President Donald Trump told 67 million Americans last week that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets, he was repeating a racist conspiracy theory that was years in the making — if not even longer. Since 2020, thousands of Haitian immigrants moved to the Rust Belt town in southwestern Ohio to take advantage of new manufacturing jobs there.