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President Biden Warns The Institution Of Democracy Is Under Assault
President Joe Biden issued a warning to the world's democracies Friday, saying they're under assault by authoritarian regimes looking to take over the world
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Turkey accuses US of backing PKK after Turks killed in Iraq - Black News Channel
By SUZAN FRASER Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan laid into the United States, accusing it of supporting Kurdish militants on Monday, days after Turkish troops found the bodies of 13 Turkish soldiers, police and civilians abducted by Kurdish insurgents in
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'Alone': How Italian town with 1st known virus death fared - Black News Channel
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VO, Italy (AP) — Italy delivered the first shocking confirmation of locally transmitted coronavirus infections outside of Asia a year ago Sunday, with back-to-back revelations of cases more than 150 kilometers (nearly 100 miles) apart in the
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Space station launch honors 'Hidden Figures' mathematician - Black News Channel
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space station supply ship named after the Black NASA mathematician featured in the movie 'Hidden Figures' rocketed into orbit Saturday, the 59th anniversary of John Glenn's historic launch. Northrop Grumman's Cygnus capsule — dubbed
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Russian cargo ship launched to International Space Station - Black News Channel
By Associated Press Undefined MOSCOW (AP) — An unmanned Russian cargo ship launched successfully Monday with a load of supplies for the International Space Station. The Progress MS-16 cargo ship blasted off as scheduled at 9:45 a.m. (0445 GMT) from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in
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Pioneering Hollywood casting director Lynn Stalmaster dies - Black News Channel
By MICHELLE MONROE Associated Press Lynn Stalmaster, the Oscar-winning casting director whose eye for talent helped launch the careers of John Travolta, Christopher Reeve, Richard Dreyfuss and many other actors, has died. He was 93. Stalmaster became the first person to receive an Academy Award for
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2 Myanmar protesters killed by police fire, reports say - Black News Channel
By Associated Press Undefined MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — Two anti-coup protesters were shot dead by riot police who fired live rounds Saturday in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, local media reported. One of the victims was shot in the head and died at the scene, according to Frontier
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IN MEMORIAM: Frederick K.C. Price, Founder of Black Megachurch, Dies - Black News Channel
By BlackPressUSA LOS ANGELES (AP) — Frederick K.C. Price, the televangelist who built his Los Angeles ministry into one of the nation’s first Black megachurches, has died. He was 89. Price died Friday, according to a statement his family posted on the Crenshaw Christian Center’s Facebook page. His
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Regina King Is Working On A Biopic About Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm
Regina King will produce and star in a film about pioneering politician Shirley Chisholm.
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Manchin's opposition threatens to sink Biden budget nominee - Black News Channel
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nomination of Neera Tanden to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget was thrown in doubt Friday as Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia became the first Democratic lawmaker to oppose her confirmation. During her confirmation
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Imprisoned ex-FBI agent who worked with Bulger seeks release - Black News Channel
By Associated Press Undefined BOSTON (AP) — The former FBI agent serving a 40-year prison sentence for alerting Boston mobster Whitey Bulger that he could be implicated in a murder is seeking to be released from prison on medical grounds. The Florida Commission on Offender Review will hear the
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Draghi takes helm in Italy, focused on pandemic recovery aid - Black News Channel
By FRANCES D'EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — Mario Draghi, the man largely credited with saving the euro currency, took the helm as Italy's premier Saturday after assembling a government that balances economic experts and other technocrats with career politicians from across the spectrum to
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'5-Alarm Fire': Arizona Republicans Lead Nationwide GOP Push To Curb Voting Rights
No state is considering more bills to restrict voting rights than Arizona, where activists say the GOP is waging a "full-scale assault on democratic norms."
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Spain braces for 5th night of protests for imprisoned rapper - Black News Channel
By Associated Press Undefined BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities in Spain braced Saturday for a fifth night of protests over the imprisonment of a rap artist for having insulted the Spanish monarchy and praised terrorist violence in his music. Organizers called for demonstrations in Madrid and
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ICE nearly released sex abuse convicts despite Biden memo - Black News Channel
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was prepared to release three men convicted of sex offenses against children, Texas officials said, in an apparent misapplication by authorities of enforcement directives from
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Democratic Congressman Sues Trump Over Role In Capitol Riot
The lawsuit was filed by the NAACP on behalf of House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).
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Groups ask Biden administration to reconsider nuke decision - Black News Channel
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Watchdog groups want the Biden administration to reconsider a decision by a U.S. agency not to conduct a more extensive environmental review related to production of the plutonium cores used in the nation's nuclear arsenal. The
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Hundreds pay respects to actor Cicely Tyson at her viewing - Black News Channel
NEW YORK (AP) — People traveled across the country and stood in a block-long line to pay respects to Cicely Tyson at a public viewing Monday. Hundreds of admirers of the pioneering Black actor lined up outside Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church on a wintry Monday. Some said they had come from
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OP-ED: Talking About Death Won't Kill You - Black News Channel
By Rep. Rena Moran, Minnesota State Representative As we celebrate Black History Month, we are confronted with the ongoing injustice that African Americans are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as our white counterparts. While some have treated this fact as if it was a new
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PRESS ROOM: EPCOT Unveils 'The Soul of Jazz: An American Adventure' Exhibit at The American Adventure Pavilion - Black News Channel
By BlackPressUSA New experience at Walt Disney World Resort takes guests on a musical tour across America with Joe Gardner from Disney and Pixar’s ‘Soul’ LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Originated by African Americans and fusing the influences of many different cultures, jazz is a distinctly American art
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Biden reframes his goal on reopening of elementary schools - Black News Channel
By AAMER MADHANI and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Joe Biden is promising a majority of elementary schools will be open five days a week by the end of his first 100 days in office, restating his goal after his administration came under fire when aides said schools
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Google Announced Initiative To Train 100,00 Black Women In Digital Skills
Google officially launch an initiative Friday to provide 100,000 Black women with career development and digital skills training by 2022
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Business owners ponder whether to require COVID-19 shots - Black News Channel
By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — As more coronavirus vaccine doses become available in the weeks and months ahead, many business owners face a difficult decision: whether to require employees to be inoculated. And if they decide 'yes,' they have to be ready for the
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NAACP Sues Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani For Conspiring With White Supremacists
The NAACP filed a lawsuit that alleges that Trump and Giuliani collaborated with the Proud Boys and The Oath Keepers to incite the U.S. Capitol riot.
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Cities slammed by winter storms face new crisis: No water - Black News Channel
By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — States slammed by winter storms that left millions without power for days have traded one crisis for another: Broken water pipes brought on by record-low temperatures have created a shortage of clean drinking water, shut
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'Kimye' is no more: Kardashian files to divorce West - Black News Channel
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Biden faces pressure as US sets new course on immigration - Black News Channel
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and BEN FOX Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. 'It seems the new president wants
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NASA rover streaks toward a landing on Mars - Black News Channel
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet. Ground controllers at the space agency's Jet
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EU hails deals to get more vaccine shots, tackle variants - Black News Channel
By FRANK JORDANS and SAMUEL PETREQUIN Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union announced Wednesday that it has agreed to buy a further 300 million doses of Moderna's vaccine against COVID-19 and was injecting almost a quarter of a billion euros (almost $300 million) into efforts to
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Dozens charged in Capitol riots spewed extremist rhetoric - Black News Channel
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — In a text message, a radicalized Trump supporter suggested getting a boat to ferry 'heavy weapons' across the Potomac River into the waiting arms of their members in time for Jan. 6, court papers say. It wasn't just
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