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By DASHA LITVINOVA A man takes a photo of windows of a police kiosk damaged by demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Demonstrators denouncing the doubling of prices for liquefied gas have clashed with police in Kazakhstan's largest city and held protests in about a dozen other cities in the country. (AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov) The President of Kazakhstan said Friday he authorized law enforcement to

Sam Jones, alumnus of North Carolina Central University and 10-time NBA champion with the Boston Celtics, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 30, at the age of 88. One of the greatest NBA players of all-time, Jones played at NCCU from 1951-54 and 1956-57, and remains the school's second-leading career scorer with 1,745 points in four seasons under head coaches John McLendon and Floyd Brown. He scored 668 field goals and

By FRAZIER MOORE FILE - Actress Betty White poses for a portrait following her appearance on the television talk show "In the House," in Burbank, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, has died. She was 99. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File) Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60

What a difference a year makes. If you are like most Americans, your family, your community, and your country are not better off than they were twelve months ago. By every metric, the country is in worse shape than it was at the start of 2021 thanks to what has been a disastrous first term of broken promises by Democrats in power and the Biden-Harris Administration. Here are 10 reasons

By KATHLEEN FOODY A health care worker tests people for COVID-19 at a drive-up testing center at Tropical Park, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant.

Hundreds of law enforcement officers from North Carolina’s largest city gathered on Wednesday for the funeral of a colleague killed last week when she was struck by a semi-truck while responding to an accident. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Mia Goodwin, who died only days after returning to work following maternity leave, was remembered at the service for her dedication to her family, her faith and her job, news outlets reported.  “Mia paid that

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell, center, sits in the courtroom during a discussion about a note from the jury, during her sex trafficking trial, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams) The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring

By ANDREW MELDRUM FILE - Retiring Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu, right, greets President Nelson Mandela at a service in Cape Town, Sunday June 23, 1996 held to celebrate the end of Tutu's tenure as leader of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril

By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER In this screen grab from video, former Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter testifies in court, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021 at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Potter is charged with first and second-degree manslaughter in the April 11 shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist, following a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. (Court TV, via AP, Pool)

By MICHAEL WARREN Atlanta's skyline is shown, with Bellwood Quarry Reservoir in the foreground, on Dec. 20, 2021. Atlanta was built with slavery’s successor: unpaid convict labor. Thousands of Black men worked in horrific conditions to break granite at the quarry, now a reservoir holding the city's backup water supply. (Elliott Augustine via AP) The City of Atlanta’s official seal shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil