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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 […]

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 […]

During a rather uninspiring commencement speech that sounded like a campaign stump speech for failed and unpopular policy proposals, President Joe Biden said, “Did we meet the moment? Forty years from now they’re gonna be talking about did we meet the moment?”   Instead of […]

By Jonathan Landrum Kangol Kid, a member of the legendary hip-hop group UTFO, has died after a battle with colon cancer. He was 55. The family of Kangol Kid — whose real name is Shaun Shiller Fequiere — said in […]

By JIM GOMEZ The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said Sunday at least 72 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more than half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing […]