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By DASHA LITVINOVAThe President of Kazakhstan said Friday he authorized law enforcement to open fire on “terrorists” and shoot to kill, a move that comes after days of extremely violent protests in the former Soviet nation. In a televised address 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 […]

By FRAZIER MOORE Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” or the loopy housemate on “The Golden Girls,” has […]

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 […]

By KATHLEEN FOODY 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 […]

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 […]

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER 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 sordid accounts of the sexual […]

By ANDREW MELDRUM Desmond 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 Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90. An uncompromising foe of […]

By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Jurors on Thursday convicted a suburban Minneapolis police officer of two manslaughter charges in the killing of Daunte Wright, a Black motorist she shot during a traffic stop after she said she confused her […]

By MICHAEL WARREN The City of Atlanta’s official seal shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War. What it doesn’t show is that Atlanta was rebuilt with slavery’s successor: convict labor, working in horrific conditions to break […]