The 19th News

2 days ago | 19thnews.org | Jasmine Mithani

Published The Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women released new grant opportunities after deleting a previous set of them in February and telling organizations to halt their applications.

6 days ago | 19thnews.org | Jessica Kutz

Published In 1978, a young housewife named Lois Gibbs captured the national media’s attention when she learned her community was built on a toxic waste dump. She lived in Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, which up until that time had been an idyllic suburb to raise a family. Unbeknownst to residents, most of their homes abutted a partially dug canal that had been repurposed to serve as a chemical dumping ground.

6 days ago | 19thnews.org | Mariel Padilla

Published After a little more than 24 hours of anticipation, the telltale white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday — signaling that the Roman Catholic Church’s 133 eligible cardinals had come to a two-thirds majority vote on who the next pope should be. The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica chimed, the crowd in St. Peter’s Square waved flags from different continents and chants could be heard: “Viva il Papa!” Long live the pope.

6 days ago | 19thnews.org | Marissa Martinez

Published The federal government is the largest employer in the country — and has historically been a stable one. But then tech billionaire Elon Musk mounted a push to slash agency jobs across the executive branch, driving nearly half of all layoffs across in the United States so far in 2025, according to one jobs report from this month.

6 days ago | 19thnews.org | Barbara Rodriguez |Nadra Nittle

Published Jolene Baxter’s daughter, Marlee, has overcome immense challenges in her first eight years of life. Marlee, who was born with a heart defect, has undergone four open-heart surgeries — suffering a stroke after the third. The stroke affected Marlee’s cognitive abilities — she’s in the second grade, but she cannot read yet. A mainstream class with neurotypical students felt overwhelming, so Marlee mostly attends classes with kids who also have disabilities.