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May 15, 2022 at 10:23 pm

Buffalo shooting latest example of targeted racial violence VIEW

The shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, is the latest example of something that's been part of U.S. history since the beginning: targeted...

May 9, 2022 at 6:12 am

Pulitzer Prizes award Washington Post for Jan. 6 coverage VIEW

Winners in journalism and arts categories will be announced at Columbia University. The Pulitzers are considered the most prestigious honor in American journalism.

Entertainment

May 2, 2022 at 5:26 pm

New lawsuit seeks reinstatement of NY congressional maps

A group of New York voters has asked a federal court to reinstate Congressional district maps tossed out by state judges last week.

A blue and white checked gingham dress, worn by Judy Garland in the “Wizard of Oz,” hangs on display, Monday, April 25, 2022, at Bonhams in New York. One of the most iconic outfits in American movie history is heading for auction, discovered in a box after decades of being thought lost. The dress was found last year at the Catholic University of America, and is on display in New York City before being put up for sale next month by Bonhams. (AP Photo/Katie Vasquez) NYJJ103 NYJJ103

April 27, 2022 at 2:11 pm

Lost for decades, Dorothy’s dress from ‘Oz’ up for sale

A blue-and-white dress that Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” is up for sale.

Business

March 3, 2022 at 11:00 am

Is NYC ready to move on from COVID? Depends on who you ask

An important milestone in New York City’s progress against COVID-19 could soon arrive when Mayor Eric Adams lifts mask mandates in schools and vaccination requirements...

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February 24, 2022 at 6:04 am

Trayvon Martin, 10 years later: Teen’s death changes nation VIEW

The killing of Trayvon Martin at the hands of a stranger still reverberates 10 years later -- in protest, in partisanship, in racial reckoning and...

Howard University School of Law students from left, Ashley Brickhouse, Jasmine Marchbanks-Owens, and Michael Peoples, wait for a train on the Washington D.C. Metro Red Line, after class, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington. For Marchbanks-Owens and other Black women, President Joe Bidenâ€™s pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court is a source of inspiration that will bring needed balance and perspective to the high court. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) DCCK106 DCCK106

February 9, 2022 at 7:23 am

For Black women, hopes and dreams rest on Biden court choice VIEW

Black women have been buoyed by President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a Black woman to the court.

January 5, 2022 at 6:25 pm

Mystery solved? Man arrested in thefts of unpublished books

Authorities say they’ve solved a publishing industry whodunit with the arrest of a man accused of numerous literary heists in recent years.

Business

December 13, 2021 at 7:20 am

In Hinduism, women creating spaces for their own leadership VIEW

In Hinduism, there aren't a lot of women among pandits, the priests who perform Hindu religious rituals.

In this 1964 photo, a reporter questions Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa outside the federal courthouse in Chattanooga, Tenn., during Hoffa’s trial that ended in a jury tampering conviction. The decades-long odyssey to find the body of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa apparently has turned to a former New Jersey landfill below an elevated highway. The FBI obtained a search warrant to “conduct a site survey underneath the Pulaski Skyway,” Mara Schneider, a spokeswoman for the Detroit field office, said in a written statement Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File) TNCHA501 TNCHA501

November 19, 2021 at 8:23 am

FBI looks at land near New Jersey landfill for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains

The decadeslong odyssey to find the remains of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa apparently has turned to land near a former New Jersey landfill that...