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[caption id="attachment_15144" align="alignnone" width="2000"] Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell preaches at 2819 Church on Nov. 16, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)[/caption] ATLANTA (AP) - After Atlanta pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell stopped dwelling on growing his congregation about three years ago, its attendance surged. Now, lines packed with young adults snake outside 2819 Church, some arriving as early as 5:30 a.m. to secure a spot for Sunday worship. Christian rap and

KFF Health News-Bekki Holzkamm has been trying to hire a lab technician at a hospital in rural North Dakota since late summer. Not one U.S. citizen has applied. West River Health Services in Hettinger, a town of about 1,000 residents in the southwestern part of the state, has four options, and none is good. The hospital could fork over $100,000 for the Trump administration's new H-1B visa fee and hire

  The Guardian - Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize for her colourful drawings and sculptures made from found fabric and VHS tape, becoming the first artist with a learning disability to take home the £25,000 prize. Alex Farquharson, chair of the jury and director of Tate Britain, said the win by the British-Nigerian represented a watershed moment for the international art world. "Nnena's work was very much

WUNC - The City of Raleigh settled out of court for nearly $1 million after the family of Darryl "Tyree" Williams sued the Raleigh Police Department nearly two years ago. The city will pay $975,000 to Sonya Williams, who oversees her son's estate, as part of a Dec. 1 settlement agreement signed by the Raleigh City Attorney's Office. "Tyree" Williams was tased repeatedly before dying in police custody on January

  NC NEWSLINE - Nearly 3,000 North Carolinians could lose housing under changes to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's [HUD] competitive grant program for permanent housing, according to an estimate by the National Alliance to End Homelessness. The alliance and other advocates are bracing for HUD reforms that will dramatically change the way the federal government funds permanent housing assistance programs. The changes could cost the state

THE CONVERSATION - The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will likely hand down a ruling next summer. In January 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order removing the recognition of citizenship for the U.S.-born children of both immigrants here illegally and visitors here only temporarily. The new rule is not retroactive. This change in long-standing U.S. policy sparked

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="828"] ALGIERS DECLARATION On the crimes of Colonialism in Africa (Photo Credit: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Embassy of Algeria in Amman)[/caption] ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - African leaders pushed Sunday to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized and addressed through reparations. At a conference in Algiers, diplomats and leaders convened to advance an African Union resolution passed at a meeting earlier this year calling for justice and reparations

On Sunday, December 8th, Apex First Baptist Church held a Holiday Extravaganza hosted by their Women's Ministry. The afternoon was filled with shopping, door prizes and holiday cheer. This event was success on all fronts. It brought the community together for one. Then you were able to do some Christmas shopping, and every vendor there was a small business. Some of the items that were available for sale were jewelry,

NC Newsline - When six Southern public university systems this summer formed a new accreditation agency, the move shook the national evaluation model that higher education has relied on for decades. The news wasn't unexpected: It arrived a few months after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April overhauling the nation's accreditation system by, among other things, barring accreditors from using college diversity mandates. It also came after

STATELINE - Zoe Clarke became a hospital registered nurse two and a half years ago, following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother. Clarke, an ICU nurse in Asheville, North Carolina, wants to get her master's degree to become a nurse practitioner or a certified registered nurse anesthetist - occupations in high demand - and eventually work toward a doctoral degree. But new borrowing limits on federal student loans