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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) – A two-day Juneteenth Festival in a popular North Carolina tourist city came to an abrupt halt after two juveniles were wounded in a shooting. The News & Observer reports that all activities planned for Sunday at […]

Many Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history […]

Detroit (AP) – Americans across the country this weekend celebrated Juneteenth, marking the relatively new national holiday with cookouts, parades and other gatherings as they commemorated the end of slavery after the Civil War. While many have treated the long […]

By DR. JOYNICOLE MARTINEZ, Staff Writer In 2015, the U.S. Justice Department concluded that Ferguson, Missouri was using its police department largely as a collection agency for the city. The court practices exacerbated the harm of Ferguson’s unconstitutional and abusive […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this weekend as part of the Biden administration’s push to repair deteriorating ties between Washington and Beijing and keep lines of communication open, the State Department said […]

JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli military said Wednesday it closed an investigation into its shooting and killing of a Palestinian toddler in the occupied West Bank earlier this month. In a rare admission of wrongdoing, the military said the 2-year-old […]

NEW YORK (AP) – After three years, the pandemic-era freeze on student loan payments will end in late August. It might seem tempting to just keep not making payments, but the consequences can be severe, including a hit to your […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans on the right and the left have a lot more in common than they might think – including their strong distrust of each other. A survey published on Wednesday finds that when asked about core values […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Regulated sports betting and horse racing should begin across North Carolina in the first half of next year after Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law Wednesday legislation that greatly expands gambling opportunities in the ninth-largest state. […]

Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday that crews will work 24 hours a day in Philadelphia to reopen a collapsed section of an important East Coast highway, but he wouldn’t estimate how long it will take to get traffic flowing through […]