Michael Jackson’s nephew to star in King of Pop biopic
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Jackson’s 26-year-old nephew, Jaafar Jackson, will play the King of Pop in the planned biopic “Michael” to be directed by Antoine Fuqua. Lionsgate announced Jackson’s casting Monday for the film being produced by Oscar-winning “Bohem
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Jacksonville elects first female mayor, giving Florida Democrats a rare win in GOP-dominated state
By Curt Anderson and Brendan Farrington | The Associated Press (AP) - Democrat Donna Deegan’s decisive win over a Republican in the open Jacksonville mayor’s race will make her the first woman to hold the job in the Florida city’s history, sparking a flicker of hope for a besieged
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Stella Jean quits Milan Fashion Week over lack of inclusion
By Colleen Barry | The Associated Press MILAN (AP) — The only Black designer belonging to Italy’s fashion chamber withdrew Wednesday from this month’s Milan Fashion Week, alleging a lack of support for diversity and inclusion after the chamber “abandoned” a project to promote youn
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By the numbers: President Biden at the two-year mark
By Aamer Madhani | The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden notches two years in office on Friday. That represents 730 days since his inauguration — and a whole lot of other numbers as well. The story of the first half of Biden’s term, at least by the numbers, is
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Sexual assault reports increase at US military academies
By Lolita C. Baldor | The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Reported sexual assaults at U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students told an anonymous survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact, The Associated Press
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MLB curtails infield shift, hopes for more singles, speed
By David Brandt | The Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell needed to add some pop to his lineup a couple years ago, so he put a few more big bodies in his four-man infield, sacrificing defensive range for offensive thump. “They combined for a weight of
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Pandemic youth mental health toll unprecedented, data show
By Lindsey Tanner | The Associated Press (AP) - The pandemic took a harsh toll on U.S. teen girls’ mental health, with almost 60% reporting feelings of persistent sadness or hopelessness, according to a government survey released Monday that bolsters earlier data. Sexual violence,
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Bills safety Hamlin back in Buffalo to continue recovery
By The Associated Press ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills safety Damar Hamlin said he returned to Buffalo on Monday “with a lot of love on my heart” to continue his recovery in a hospital there, a week after going into cardiac arrest and having to be resuscitated on the field during
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Florida Straight Up Lied About AP African-American Studies Course, College Board Says
… “slandered” its AP African-American Studies course, and accusing … over the AP African-American Studies curriculum “has … subsequent comments, that African American Studies ‘lacks educational value … reject the AP African-American Studies class, because …
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What is Bitcoin Pizza Day?
Bitcoin Pizza Day has since become a symbolic event in the global cryptocurrency community. It serves as a reminder of Bitcoin's humble beginnings, the evolution of cryptocurrencies and their increasing acceptance in the wider financial world. Here is a list of ten crypto communities in Africa who
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Danielle Deadwyler cites racism, misogynoir in Oscar snub
By Jake Coyle | The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Danielle Deadwyler says racism and misogynoir played a role in this year’s Academy Awards nominations, where she and Viola Davis were overlooked in the best actress category. Going into Oscar nominations last month, Deadwyler wa
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Digital literacy: Can the republic ‘survive an algorithm?’
By David Klepper and Manuel Valdes | The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Shawn Lee, a high school social studies teacher in Seattle, wants to see lessons on internet akin to a kind of 21st century driver’s education, an essential for modern life. Lee has tried to bring that kind o
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As bourbon booms, thirst for rare brands breeds skullduggery
By Andrew Selsky and Damian Dovarganes | The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Buttery, smooth, oaky. These are characteristics of the best bourbons, and a growing cult of aficionados is willing to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to get their hands on scarce American s
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Leaked documents may have origin in chatroom for gamers
By Nomaan Merchant | The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A major leak of classified U.S. documents that’s shaken Washington and exposed new details of its intelligence gathering may have started in a chatroom on a social media platform popular with gamers. Held on the Discord p
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California, drugmaker partner to produce affordable insulin
DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) — The state of California and a generic drug manufacturer announced a 10-year partnership Saturday to produce affordable, state-branded insulin that they hope will rival longtime producers and push down prices for a medication used by millions of Americans. The
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Don Lemon fired from CNN after divisive morning show run
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN fired longtime host Don Lemon on Monday following his short and disastrous run as a morning show host, a little over two months after he apologized for on-air comments about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley being past her prime. The move quickly tu
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Lax campaign finance rules likely to survive SBF's FTX scandal
If anything could jump-start the stalled effort to reform the role of money in politics, one might think it would be an epic scandal involving an overnight billionaire who suddenly became one of the nation’s biggest political donors.  But while the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire is
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Ohio officers won’t be charged in shooting of Jayland Walker
By Patrick Orsagos and John Seewer | The Associated Press AKRON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio grand jury declined to indict eight police officers who fired 94 shots in the death last year of Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man who fired at least one round at officers during a car and f
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Report: Racist text helped spur Fox to oust Tucker Carlson
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Text messages that helped lead Fox News to part ways with star host Tucker Carlson included one in which he declared that Trump supporters beating a protester was “not how white men fight,” according to The New York Times. The text was one o
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Manhattan DA sues Rep. Jordan over Trump indictment inquiry
By Michael R. Sisak and Farnoush Amiri | The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday, an extraordinary move as he seeks to halt a House Judiciary Committee inquiry that the prosecutor contends is a “transparent campa
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EchoVC launches $8 million fund for African blockchain startups
Amid an investment cool off, EchoVC has announced a fresh $8 million fund dedicated to blockchain startups in Africa. The capital will be deployed to blockchain startups that are solving some of Africa’s pressing challenges
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Attorneys liken Tyre Nichols’ arrest to Rodney King beating
By Adrian Sainz | The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A lawyer for the family of a Black man who died at a hospital three days after a confrontation with police during a traffic stop said Monday that video of the encounter shows it was “violent” and “troublesome on every le
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LSU’s 59 1st-half points set NCAA women’s title game record
By The Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — Jasmine Carson was nearly perfect from the field to help LSU put on a record-breaking performance in the NCAA Tournament championship game. Carson scored 21 of her 22 points in the first half as the Tigers torched Iowa’s defense in a 102-85 vi
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Pentagon video shows Russian jet dumping fuel on US drone
By Karl Ritter and Dino Hazell | The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Pentagon on Thursday released video of what it said was a Russian fighter jet dumping fuel on a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone before the warplane clipped the drone’s propeller in international airsp
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Biden outpacing Trump, Obama with diverse judicial nominees
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For the Biden White House, a quartet of four female judges in Colorado encapsulates its mission when it comes to the federal judiciary. Charlotte Sweeney is the first openly LGBT woman to serve on the federal bench west of the Mississippi
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Seeking Alzheimer’s clues from few who escape genetic fate
By Lauran Neergaard | The Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Doug Whitney inherited the same gene mutation that gave Alzheimer’s disease to his mother, brother and generations of other relatives by the unusually young age of 50. Yet he’s a healthy 73, his mind still sharp. Somehow,
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He said deputies shoved a gun in his mouth. He isn’t the only one
By Michael Goldberg | The Associated Press BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Several deputies from a Mississippi sheriff’s department being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations have been involved in at least four violent encounters with Black men since 2
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In 67 minutes of video, brutality followed by nonchalance
By Matt Sedensky | The Associated Press (AP) - If you stumbled on the scene too late, you might have missed him there, bloodied and beaten. The officers’ demeanors seem untroubled and their work nonurgent as they mill at this quiet corner trading battle tales, a fist bump and a ba
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In Tennessee, expulsions echo a decades-old protest movement
By Adrian Sainz, Kimberlee Kruesi and Tim Sullivan | The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Squint a little as you take in the scene, or just close your eyes and listen to the voice, and 2023 stumbles back into another era. Another Memphis. “You can’t expel hope!” the young ma
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Gunfire took their son at 20. Now it takes his daughter, 12
By Bobby Caina Calvan | The Associated Press (AP) - Janet Rice headed to the hospital Thursday night, as she routinely does when tragedy befalls her community. A barrage of gunfire had injured several young people, including a 12-year-old girl struck in the head by a stray bullet.
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