Oct 28, 2026 · 54 min · 15 segments
Two conservative online influencers have been charged with voter fraud in Minnesota. They posed as Muslim Minnesotans during the August primary in an effort to make a viral video questioning voter…
Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta has died, according to her Instagram social media account.
Huerta worked alongside prominent activists at Chavez to organize a United Farm Workers boycott over miserable working conditions for workers.
low-paid, mostly Mexican-American workers, and forced farmers who employed them to give them union contracts.
In describing what it was like growing up in America in the 1940s, Huerta said she was first aware of her social conscience as a teenager because of police brutality against Mexican and Black people.
In this TED Talk, which aired on NPR's TED Radio Hour in 2019, Huerta noted that one of the most profound reasons people don't get involved in social activism is apathy, including among women.
You know, women...
they have so many inhibitions.
Many of them have suffered so much trauma in their lives, so many aggressions in their lives.
And so it's very hard for them to realize that they have leadership capacities, that they can get out there and they could change the world.
This year, Huerta revealed that she was among the women who said they were raped by Chavez when they were young, and she disclosed she'd given birth to Chavez's children.
In a statement in March, She said she kept that secret because she believed exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement she spent a lifetime fighting for.
She ended her message with, quote, I have kept the secret long enough.
and faster than average wages, putting the squeeze on workers' buying power.
The war with Iran has triggered a spike in energy prices, while the artificial intelligence boom is raising the cost of construction materials and electronic equipment.
Nevertheless, investors think the Fed will likely hold its benchmark interest rates steady when policymakers wrap up their meeting this afternoon.
Members of the central bank's rate-setting committee have said while they're determined to tame inflation, they can afford to take their time.
images show Flavio Bolsonaro and his family getting off a private airplane around 9.30 local time in Miami.
Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta has died, according to her Instagram social media account.
Huerta worked alongside prominent activists at Chavez to organize a United Farm Workers boycott over miserable working conditions for workers.
low-paid, mostly Mexican-American workers, and forced farmers who employed them to give them union contracts.
In describing what it was like growing up in America in the 1940s, Huerta said she was first aware of her social conscience as a teenager because of police brutality against Mexican and Black people.
In this TED Talk, which aired on NPR's TED Radio Hour in 2019, Huerta noted that one of the most profound reasons people don't get involved in social activism is apathy, including among women.
You know, women...
they have so many inhibitions.
Many of them have suffered so much trauma in their lives, so many aggressions in their lives.
And so it's very hard for them to realize that they have leadership capacities, that they can get out there and they could change the world.
This year, Huerta revealed that she was among the women who said they were raped by Chavez when they were young, and she disclosed she'd given birth to Chavez's children.
In a statement in March, She said she kept that secret because she believed exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement she spent a lifetime fighting for.
She ended her message with, quote, I have kept the secret long enough.
and faster than average wages, putting the squeeze on workers' buying power.
The war with Iran has triggered a spike in energy prices, while the artificial intelligence boom is raising the cost of construction materials and electronic equipment.
Nevertheless, investors think the Fed will likely hold its benchmark interest rates steady when policymakers wrap up their meeting this afternoon.
Members of the central bank's rate-setting committee have said while they're determined to tame inflation, they can afford to take their time.
images show Flavio Bolsonaro and his family getting off a private airplane around 9.30 local time in Miami.
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