WASHINGTON — Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that U.S. Border Patrol agents violated the Constitution when they stopped a car on a freeway near San Clemente because…
Read more Critics fault Supreme Court for allowing immigration stops that consider race and ethnicityThe Philadelphia school district has failed to protect Jewish students from “a virulent wave of antisemitism” that swept through classrooms after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, according…
Read more Antisemitism runs rampant in Philadelphia schools, Jewish group alleges in civil rights complaintBISMARCK, N.D. – A Native American tribe in North Dakota will soon grow lettuce in a giant greenhouse complex that when fully completed will be among the country’s…
Read more North Dakota tribe goes back to its roots with a massive greenhouse operationNEW ORLEANS – The City of New Orleans on Thursday officially welcomed thousands of people descending on the Big Easy for the Essence Festival of Culture. The celebration…
Read more 30th annual Essence Festival of Culture kicks off in New OrleansViolence raged across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day Thursday, hours after France imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory, boosting security forces’ powers…
Read more Violence rages in New Caledonia as France rushes emergency reinforcements to its Pacific territoryBRETTEVILLE-L’ORGUEILLEUSE – BRETTEVILLE-L’On D-Day, Charles Shay was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic who was ready to give his life — and save as many as he could. Now…
Read more On D-Day, 19-year-old medic Charles Shay was ready to give his life, and save as many as he couldARLINGTON, Wash. – When Washington state opened some of the nation’s first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where…
Read more The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping?MIAMI – The Biden administration sent about 50 Haitians back to their country on Thursday, authorities said, marking the first deportation flight in several months to the Caribbean…
Read more US deports about 50 Haitians to nation hit with gang violence, ending monthslong pause in flightsThe U.S. government is updating its categories for race and ethnicity on forms such as the census for the first time in 27 years, adding more options including…
Read more U.S. To Update Race, Ethnicity Categories For First Time In 27 YearsActor Chance Perdomo, who rose to fame as a star of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and “Gen V,” has died at age 27 following a motorcycle crash. “On…
Read more Chance Perdomo, star of ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ and ‘Gen V,’ dies in motorcycle crash at 27SELMA, Ala. – Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day Alabama law officers attacked Civil Rights…
Read more Vice President Kamala Harris to join in marking anniversary of Bloody Sunday on Alabama bridge
