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By DANICA KIRKA, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUIQueen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.The palace announced she died at […]

“Build Back Better” is a phrase that we’ve heard President Joe Biden repeat ad nauseam over the past two years, but as we all can see and feel, things are not better. As millions of children head back to school […]

“Build Back Better” is a phrase that we’ve heard President Joe Biden repeat ad nauseam over the past two years, but as we all can see and feel, things are not better. As millions of children head back to school […]

The first African American four-star general in Marine Corps history, Gen. Michael E. Langley, credited his father with telling him to “aim high” and predicted that his promotion on Saturday would have an impact on younger people. Langley was born […]

By RUSS BYNUM The white father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’sfatal shooting after they chased the 25-year-old Black man through a Georgia neighborhood were sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime. U.S. District […]

By DR. JOYNICOLE MARTINEZ, Staff Writer Disease has a way of shining a light on the darker parts and responses of any society. SARS-COV-2 has certainly exposed our vulnerabilities and biases with COVID-19, and the monkeypox virus is doing it […]

By DYLAN LOVAN The federal government filed civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose fatal shooting helped fuel the racial justice protests that […]

By JIM HEINTZ Russian prosecutors asked a court outside Moscow to sentence American basketball star Brittney Griner to 9 1/2 years in prison as closing arguments in her cannabis possession trial were made Thursday.  The trial is nearing its end […]

By BRIAN SLODYSKO and TOM DAVIES Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was killed Wednesday in a car crash in her northern Indiana district along with two members of her congressional staff and another person, police said. The crash happened about […]

Tens of thousands of people serving punishments for felony convictions in North Carolina but who aren’t behind bars can now register to vote and cast ballots following an appeals court ruling.  Expanding the scope of those able to register and […]