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Voting rights marcher recalls being clubbed, hearing fatal gunshot during pivotal day of protests

June 10, 2023

Civil Rights foot soldier Della Simpson Maynor poses for a photo on May 19, 2023, at Zion Church in Marion, Ala. On Feb. 18, 1965, the 14-year-old Maynor was part of a group planning to march to the Perry County […]

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Andrew Young was at Martin Luther King’s side throughout often violent struggle for civil rights

June 9, 2023

ATLANTA (AP) – Andrew Young’s first thought when he heard the Voting Rights Acthad been signed into law was not celebratory. It was strategic. “Where are we going to get the money to get the country mobilized to register these […]

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CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure

June 8, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) – CNN ousted chief executive Chris Licht after a tumultuous year leading the struggling news network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the growing realization that he’d lost the confidence of the network’s journalists. The […]

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2 dead in shooting after high school graduation ceremony in Virginia capital

June 7, 2023

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theater in Richmond, Virginia, where a high school graduation ceremony had just ended, causing hundreds of attendees to flee in panic, weep […]

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For many Southern Baptists, the only campaign question is which Republican candidate to support

June 7, 2023

Southern Baptists form a core part of the white evangelical Christian bloc that has reliably and overwhelmingly voted Republican in recent elections, and is expected to again in 2024. But Southern Baptists are weighing their options in the GOP presidential […]

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White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor is arrested in Florida

June 7, 2023

OCALA, Fla. (AP) – A Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud was arrested Tuesday, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said. Susan Louise Lorincz, […]

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Plane that crashed in Virginia lost contact with air traffic controllers during ascent, feds say

June 6, 2023

Only minutes into a doomed journey that ended on a remote Virginia mountain, the pilot of a business jet was not responding to air traffic control instructions and the situation was soon reported to a network that includes military, security […]

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This rare, underfunded program is seen as a crucial lifeline for incarcerated moms and their kids

June 5, 2023

LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) – Dressed in her Sunday best – pink ruffled sleeves and a rainbow tulle tutu – Crystal Martinez’s 4-year-old daughter proudly presents her with a multicolored bouquet of carefully crafted tissue paper flowers. With her 5-year-old son […]

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Former Vice President Pence files paperwork launching 2024 presidential bid in challenge to Trump

June 5, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) – Former Vice President Mike Pence filed paperwork on Monday declaring his campaign for president in 2024, setting up a challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump, just two years after their time in the White House […]

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Latvian Parliament elects foreign minister as new president

June 4, 2023

HELSINKI (AP) – Latvian lawmakers on Wednesday picked the country’s long-serving and popular foreign minister, a strong backer of Ukraine, as its new head of state in a tight vote. The 100-seat Saeima legislature elected Edgars Rinkevics, the country’s top […]

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