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The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will mark the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday — the day on March 7, 1965, that civil rights marchers were brutally beaten by law enforcement officers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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A new executive order from President Joe Biden directs federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access, a move that comes as congressional Democrats press for a sweeping voting and elections bill to counter efforts to restrict voting access.
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The Islamic State's brutal three-year rule of much of northern and western Iraq, and the grueling campaign against it, left a vast swathe of destruction. Reconstruction efforts have stalled amid a years-long financial crisis.
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Video of the February incident has been made public at a time when the Rochester Police Department is under intense scrutiny over its interactions with Black residents.
Updated: 7 hours ago
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Cuomo’s workplace conduct has been under intense scrutiny in recent days as several women have publicly told of feeling sexually harassed, or at least made to feel demeaned and uncomfortable by the Democrat.
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Health experts say mask mandates help slow the spread of COVID-19, but some believe they are a restriction of their freedoms.
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Dozens of people gathered in front of the Minnesota governor’s mansion on Saturday to demand accountability for police officers, days before a former Minneapolis officer is scheduled to go on trial in the death of George Floyd.
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The defense is scheduled to make its closing arguments beginning March 18, before the court decides the verdict and sentence.
Updated: 19 hours ago
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A spokeswoman for Gorman didn’t immediately return an email Saturday seeking additional comment.
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Pope Francis and Iraq’s top Shiite cleric have delivered a powerful message of peaceful coexistence, urging Muslims to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority during an historic meeting.
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Senate Democrats came out with their version of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill.
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Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s top public health official, said the state is acting now because the rates of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations are declining while the number of people receiving the vaccine is increasing.
Updated: 22 hours ago
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Officials in some of the affected cities worry that the change could have adverse implications for federal funding and economic development.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2021 at 8:57 AM EST
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The surge is underscoring how treacherous the virus is and it is leading to new restrictions across the continent.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2021 at 5:16 AM EST
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A vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital on Friday night.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 8:09 PM EST
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A member of the “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team has died at a treatment center for mental illness.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 6:48 PM EST
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The study was released just as some states are rescinding mask mandates and restaurant limits.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 5:44 PM EST
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The hack of a company that manages ticket-processing and frequent-flier data for major global airlines — including Star Alliance and OneWorld members — has compromised the personal data of an unspecified number of travelers.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 5:13 PM EST
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Pharmaceutical companies that took taxpayer money from the U.S. or Europe to develop inoculations at unprecedented speed say they are negotiating contracts and exclusive licensing deals with producers on a case-by-case basis because they need to protect their intellectual property and ensure safety.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 4:59 PM EST
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A man found Tiger Woods unconscious in a mangled SUV after the golf star crashed the vehicle in Southern California, authorities said in court documents obtained Friday.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 4:11 PM EST
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NASA’s Kate Rubins and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi installed mounting brackets and struts for the improved solar wings due to arrive in June. They also tightened some sticky bolts that hampered Sunday’s spacewalk and left some duties undone.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 3:21 PM EST
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The National Transportation Safety Board said the blade found “multiple fatigue fracture origins” on the inside surface of the hollow fan blade.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 2:42 PM EST
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Riser was arrested Thursday on two counts of capital murder and was being held Friday on $5 million bond.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 2:17 PM EST
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Prosecutors have pursued the misdemeanor case against Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri despite international condemnation from free press advocates who say she was just doing her job.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 2:16 PM EST
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will finally get the chance to tell the story behind their departure from royal duties directly to the public on Sunday, when their two-hour interview with Oprah Winfrey is broadcast.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 2:10 PM EST
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Police on Friday identified the victims as Roseann McCulley, 34, her 13-year-old son Kayden Johnson and her 6-year-old daughter Kaylee Brooks.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 2:07 PM EST
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Still, Biden faces more skepticism from Americans on the economy, which has been battered by the pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 1:25 PM EST
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President Samuel Stanley Jr. shared the news in a letter to the community Friday.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 1:21 PM EST
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The U.S. so far isn’t allowing locally made vaccines to be exported, so Canada has been forced to get vaccines from Europe and Asia.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 1:18 PM EST
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"Coming 2 America," originally planned to hit theaters last year, was sold due to the pandemic by Paramount Pictures to Amazon, where it will begin streaming Friday.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 12:24 PM EST
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Maia Chaka enters the NFL after working in the Pac-12 and Conference USA.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 11:45 AM EST
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The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times report that the true number of people who had died in nursing homes in New York was altered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aides in a state Health Department report in July.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 11:37 AM EST
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A British judge has ordered the Mail on Sunday to publish a front-page statement highlighting the Duchess of Sussex’s legal victory over the newspaper.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 11:11 AM EST
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Court papers say Federico Klein was seen wearing a “Make America Great Again" hat amid the throng of people trying to force their way into the Capitol.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 10:22 AM EST
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden was committed to working with Congress to “ensure that the authorizations for the use of military force currently on the books are replaced with a narrow and specific framework.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 8:54 AM EST
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He was moved to King Edward VII’s hospital on Friday and is “expected to remain in hospital for continuing treatment for a number of days,’' the palace said.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 8:20 AM EST
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Taken together, the materials shed new light on the sprawling patchwork of law enforcement agencies that tried to stop the siege and the lack of coordination and inadequate planning that stymied their efforts.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 2:21 AM EST
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The California Highway Patrol says nine migrants in an SUV packed with 25 people that drove through an opening in a border wall suffered major injuries after their vehicle slammed into a tractor-trailer and killed 13 others inside.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 12:18 AM EST
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Dallas police said Thursday an officer has been arrested on two counts of capital murder.
Updated: Mar. 5, 2021 at 12:13 AM EST
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There were no immediate reports of serious damage or casualties.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 6:52 PM EST
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It’s widely expected the Senate will approve the bill and the House will whisk it to Biden for his signature by mid-March, handing him a crucial early legislative victory.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 6:09 PM EST
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History asked Dr. Anthony Fauci to contribute a personal artifact to mark the pandemic, and he chose the lumpy blue and orange ball that he used to explain the complexities of the virus in dozens of interviews.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 4:26 PM EST
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A woman told police a man dressed all in black, including a mask covering his entire face, typed something on his phone and when he showed her, it said “I am Satan.”
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 3:09 PM EST
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As the trial approaches for a white Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd, prosecutors are putting the time Derek Chauvin’s knee was on the Black man’s neck at about nine minutes.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 2:28 PM EST
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Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims rose by 9,000 from the previous week.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 2:06 PM EST
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Business groups are urging Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to let employers reopen their offices for in-person work during the coronavirus pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 2:03 PM EST
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The Metropolitan Police force said “no further action will be taken” over allegations journalist Martin Bashir used illegal subterfuge to get the interview.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 1:45 PM EST
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Legislation in at least a dozen states seeks to nullify any new restrictions, such as ammunition limits or a ban on certain types of weapons. Some bills would make it a crime for local police officers to enforce federal gun laws.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 1:29 PM EST
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A key Senate committee on Thursday approved the nomination of New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland to be interior secretary, clearing the way for a Senate vote that is likely to make her the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 1:15 PM EST
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The research involved U.S. professional athletes who play football, hockey, soccer, baseball and men’s and women’s basketball.