After school shooting, Tennessee governor signs bill to shield gun firms further against lawsuits

FILE - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee responds to questions during a news conference Tuesday, April 11, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. The Republican Lee says he plans to call the Tennessee's legislature into special session in August to consider ways to further tighten Tennessee's gun laws. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on additional protections for gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers

Native Americans demand accountability for ancestral remains identified at Dartmouth College

BOSTON (AP) - As a citizen of the Quapaw Nation, Ahnili Johnson-Jennings has always seen Dartmouth College as the university for Native American students. Her father graduated from the school, founded in 1769 to educate Native Americans, and she had come to rely on its network of students, professors and administrators. But news that the Ivy League school in New Hampshire identified partial skeletal remains of 15 Native Americans in

George Santos charged with fraud, including stealing from campaign to buy designer clothes

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) - U.S. Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican infamous for fabricating his life story, has been indicted on charges that he duped donors, stole from his campaign and lied to Congress about being a millionaire, all while cheating to collect unemployment benefits he didn't deserve, prosecutors said Wednesday. The indictment was a reckoning for a web of fraud and deceit that prosecutors say overlapped with

Federal bank records emerge as focus of GOP’s Biden probes

WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing growing pressure to show progress in their investigations, House Republicans on Wednesday detailed what they say are concerning new findings about President Joe Biden's family and their finances. The smoking gun, according to the GOP, is recently obtained financial records connected to the president's son Hunter Biden, brother James Biden and a growing number of associates who received millions of dollars in payments from foreign entities

Jury finds Trump liable for sexual abuse, awards accuser $5M

E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court on May 8, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) NEW YORK (AP) - A jury found Donald Trump liable Tuesday for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in a judgment that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House. The verdict was split: Jurors rejected Carroll's claim that she

Texas mall shooting victims include guard and young sisters

By JAMIE STENGLE, VANESSA A. ALVAREZ and REBECCA REYNOLDS DALLAS (AP) - The people killed in a shooting at a mall near Dallas include two elementary school-age sisters, a couple and their 3-year-old son, a young engineer and a security guard. The victims represent a multicultural cross-section of the area's increasingly diverse suburbs. Cox Elementary School students Daniela and Sofia Mendoza, grades four and two, were among those slain Saturday

Anti-Vaxer RFK Jr. Challenging Biden in 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country’s most famous political families, is running for president.  Kennedy filed a statement of candidacy Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.  The 69-year-old’s campaign to challenge incumbent President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination is a long shot. Self-help author Marianne Williamson is also running in the Democratic race.  Kennedy, a

Graves Linked To One Of Nation’s Oldest Black Churches

Three men whose graves were found at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches were members of its congregation in the early 19th century, a team of archaeologists and scientists in Virginia announced Thursday. The First Baptist Church was formed in 1776 by free and enslaved Black people in Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. Members initially gathered in fields and under trees in defiance of laws that

Meet Charlotta BassMeet

Bass and Paul Robeson (1949) She was born on February 14, 1874 in Sumter, South Carolina. Charlotta was the sixth out of eleven children for Hiram and Kate Spears. In 1894, she moved to Providence, Rhode Island to live with her brother. There she worked for the  black owned Providence Watchman for ten years selling ads. In 1910, she relocated to California for health reasons. After John J. Neimore passed away, she

Flood Group’s Annual Image Awards

The Flood Group will present its Second Annual Image Awards on Sunday, February 26th at 3:00 p.m. at the John Chavis Community Center located at 505 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Raleigh. This event commemorates Black History Month and will honor exemplary individuals who have made notable contributions in the areas of community service, criminal justice and law, cultural arts, education, entrepreneurship, government service, leadership, medicine, and social advocacy.