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Dolly Parton, Eminem, Lionel Richie, Duran Duran and A Tribe Called Quest are among this year’s first-time nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Cleveland-based institution announced 17 artists and groups being considered for Rock Hall induction, including Rage Against the Machine, Pat Benatar, Dionne Warwick, Carly Simon, Judas Priest and Beck. Beck and Simon are also in their first year of eligibility. This year’s

Five people were shot and wounded outside a Milwaukee high school where an evening basketball game reportedly was taking place. Four teenage girls and a woman were shot about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday near Rufus King High School, police said. The five had left a basketball game and were involved in some sort of a fight when they were shot, WISN-TV reported. Their wounds were not believed to be life threatening.  Authorities said

By DAVID BAUDER Whoopi Goldberg was suspended for two weeks Tuesday as co-host of “The View” because of what the head of ABC News called her “wrong and hurtful comments” about Jews and the Holocaust. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots as early as March. In an extraordinary move, the Food and Drug Administration had urged Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to apply earlier than the companies had planned — and before it’s settled

FILE - Miss North Carolina Cheslie Kryst wins the 2019 Miss USA final competition in the Grand Theatre in the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev., on May 2, 2019. Kryst, a correspondent for the entertainment news program "Extra," has died. Police said the 30-year-old Kryst jumped from a Manhattan apartment building. She was pronounced dead at the scene Sunday morning, Jan. 30, 2022. Her family confirmed her death in

Betesha Ethridge - #BankWithBea Hello friends! Let’s start with a recap of last week’s challenge. “Our next challenge is to write down your due dates and pay dates so we can determine which bills get paid with each check and what to do if the due date falls outside of your pay period.” I hope you have learned more about your needs vs wants and budgeting your monthly income. This

If you listen to liberal pundits on television and Democrat lawmakers, you will think that Black people literally can’t vote anywhere, and that democracy is dying because the Democrats in Congress can’t pass their radical election takeover agenda. The reality is all those statements are false and Democrat claims that their federal voting legislation is the only issue critical to the lives of Black Americans is offensively wrong. Black voter

North Carolina nonprofit hospitals too often are billing poor people for medical care when they should write the expenses off as a result of their tax-exempt status, according to a report released Wednesday by the state treasurer’s office.  The report, developed by the State Health Plan and the National Academy of State Health Policy, declared a “lack of transparency obscures” how common such billings are and how “existing law offers little

By MEG KINNARD and TOM FOREMAN Jr. Then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden talks to Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C., Feb. 29, 2020 after winning the South Carolina primary. President Biden has frequently referenced the critical role South Carolina played in his nomination. He points to his decades-long relationship with the state whose Black voters handed him a major win at a desperate