Fund to preserve, assist Black churches gets $20M donation
A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $20 million donation that will go to help congregations including...
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US COVID death toll hits 800,000, a year into vaccine drive
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 800,000 on Tuesday, a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic, given that more than 200,000 of those lives...
US: Congress mandates new car technology to stop drunken driving
Congress has created a new requirement for automakers: Find a high-tech way to keep drunken people from driving cars. It’s one of the mandates along...
Robinhood hit by data breach exposing users’ emails, names
Popular investing app Robinhood said Monday that it suffered a security breach last week where hackers accessed some personal information for roughly 7 million users...
U.S. donates 17 million J&J doses to African Union
President Joe Biden told visiting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday that the United States will make a one-time donation of more than 17 million...
Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties
The U.S.‘s top envoy to Haiti resigned abruptly on Sept. 22, 2021, over the Biden administration’s “inhumane” treatment of Haitian migrants crossing the border via...
Arizona “audit” finds Biden won (by more votes) and no evidence of fraud
After months of work and some $6 million spent, a so-called audit that Trump supporters claimed would show that the election had been stolen from...
Eric Adams is poised to be New York City’s next mayor. Who is he?
Eric Adams joined the New York Police Department because of the violence he experienced at the hands of its officers when he was a teenager. The...
Many history interpreters of color carry weight of racism
Stephen Seals stood onstage waiting to be auctioned off. Moments later, a white slave auctioneer pointed a gun at one of the other Black men...
Biden, Harris offering solace to grieving Asian Americans
For Asian Americans, 2020 was a year of political success and newfound influence. But it was also a time of vulnerability to racist assaults. That painful...