Author: The Carolinian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia voters on Tuesday elected Democrat Jennifer McClellan, a veteran state legislator from Richmond, to fill an open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she will make history as the first Black woman to represent the state in Congress.  “We will make this commonwealth and this country a better place for everyone,” McClellan said in a victory speech at a party with supporters in

People who use Medicaid and have severe mental illness, substance use disorders or developmental disabilities soon might have to switch doctors if their health care providers don’t sign on with new managed care plans.   These providers include many of the state’s large health systems, major hospitals and their physicians’ offices. They have been slow to sign on to Medicaid managed care networks that the state calls “tailored plans.” These plans