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Lori Goldman poses for a portrait next to campaign signs outside her home in Bloomfield Village, Mich., Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. For most of her life, until 2016, Goldman had been politically apathetic. Had you offered her $1 million, she says, she could not have described the branches of government in any depth. She voted, sometimes. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) NY413 NY413

October 18, 2020 at 9:02 pm

‘Our house is on fire’: Suburban women lead charge vs. Trump VIEW

President Donald Trump has tried to appeal to “the suburban housewives of America,” as he called them. But the biggest gender gap in recent political...

October 9, 2020 at 10:08 pm

Whitmer plot could affect fight for battleground Michigan

Gretchen Whitmer knew she’d have the spotlight Thursday. And she decided not to waste it. Hours after the FBI revealed a group of anti-government vigilantes...

October 1, 2020 at 10:57 am

Inside the church at the heart of the Louisville protests VIEW

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The story of how the First Unitarian Church of Louisville flung open its doors to protesters who marched for justice for...

September 26, 2020 at 5:09 am

In Breonna Taylor’s name: Devastation and a search for hope VIEW

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Chea Woolfolk searched the crowd until she found the face of the woman she’d come to regard as a second mother....

Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman’s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) LOU1 LOU1

September 24, 2020 at 10:15 pm

Family demands release of evidence in Breonna Taylor’s case WATCH

People dismayed that the officers who shot the Black woman in her apartment last March wouldn’t be charged with her death vowed to persist in...

September 24, 2020 at 9:02 pm

In despair, protesters take to streets for Breonna Taylor VIEW

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Some of them raised their fists and called out “Black lives matter!” Others tended to the letters, flowers and signs grouped...

September 24, 2020 at 3:43 pm

Kentucky Senate candidates take up Breonna Taylor case VIEW

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Democrat Amy McGrath called for fundamental change to combat “systemic racism" as the Senate candidate met Thursday with some of the...

September 23, 2020 at 9:57 pm

‘No easy answer’: Many ask what next in Breonna Taylor case VIEW

Anger, frustration and sadness over the decision not to charge Kentucky police officers for Breonna Taylor’s death poured into America’s streets as protesters lashed out...

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This June 10, 2020 photo shows Michael Johnson, part of a group that believed antifa was coming to Leitchfield, Ky., when a local resident organized a Black Lives Matter rally. He said the sign he affixed to his truck was meant to say that all people’s lives should matter equally. Johnson said he was troubled by George Floyd’s death under the knee of a police officer, but worried the protests across the country would devolve into violence and vandalism. (AP Photo/Claire Galofaro) RPCG301 RPCG301

September 23, 2020 at 10:51 am

Trump, social media, right-wing news stir up antifa scares

People in many cities and small towns this year were on watch for attacks by antifa; their fear and conflict were stoked by bogus posts...

September 17, 2020 at 6:38 am

‘If not now, when?’: Black women seize political spotlight VIEW

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — The little girl ran up to her, wide-eyed and giddy. “Are you Charisse Davis?” the fourth grader asked. Davis was stunned....