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Jun 01 2022
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California reparations: How do you prove ancestry to enslaved people?
This year, California's government approved a plan to pay reparations to residents of the state who can show that they are descendants of those formerly enslaved. Seeking the evidence will be a process, genealogists say.
Adrienne Abiodun knows she is a descendant of a once enslaved man, named Phillip Branch.
She knows the name of his former enslaver, as well - John Whitaker. Ms
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Apr 30 2015
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Kim Jong Un cancels Russia trip
Kim Jong Un canceled plans to visit Russia in the coming weeks, citing internal issues in North Korea, according to a statement from the Kremlin on Thursday.
The highly anticipated trip would have been Kim's first official foreign visit since taking power in 2011 after the death of his father.
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Aug 22 2022
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‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump
In years past, it would have been a political Waterloo moment for Republicans: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats racing frantically to finalize sweeping legislation to hike taxes on corporations and spend trillions on climate change and health care subsidies.
But instead of mounting a massive grassroots opposition to tank or tar the Inflation Reduction Act, conservatives
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May 05 2022
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Next battle over access to abortion will focus on pills
It took two trips over state lines, navigating icy roads and a patchwork of state laws, for a 32-year-old South Dakota woman to get abortion pills last year.
For abortion-seekers like her, such journeys, along with pills sent through the mail, will grow in importance if the Supreme Court follows through with its leaked draft opinion that would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision
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Feb 01 2020
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Trump's expanded travel ban: Which countries are affected?
US President Donald Trump has expanded his controversial travel ban, often referred to by critics as a Muslim ban, to target citizens from six additional countries.
The move on Friday was slammed by immigrant advocates and critics who say the policy discriminates against Muslims and others.
The announcement comes three years after Trump sparked outrage by signing an executive
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Jun 10 2022
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US lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel
The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
A senior administration official said the mandate expires Sunday at 12:01 a.m. EDT, saying the Centers for Disease Control and
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Mar 31 2022
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Russia's 'Withdrawal' May Foreshadow Major New Offensives
Russia's announced withdrawal from around Kyiv and the city of Chernihiv to the capital's northeast could yet prove to be the beginning of new offensives in the east and south, rather than measures to enable further peace talks, Ukrainians believe.
Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said this week Moscow would reduce hostilities around Kyiv and Chernihiv to "increase
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Jun 20 2022
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Heat waves and high energy costs are hitting some communities hard
High temperatures and humidity hitting large parts of the U.S. last week collided with the ongoing challenges many people face from inflation and high energy costs.
In Macon, Georgia, where temperatures were expected to be in the upper 90s over the weekend before reaching triple digits this week, Sgt. Melissa White, a corps administrator for the Salvation Army, said her facility has
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May 16 2022
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US gun violence over weekend puts focus on easy access to weapons
America on Monday was picking up the pieces from a weekend of gun violence that – outside the cost of lives – has refocused the country’s leadership on the toxic interplay of political ideology and easy access to handguns and battlefield weapons.
Scrutiny of Republicans who embrace ‘great replacement theory’ after Buffalo massacre
In the most recent case, two people were killed
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Nov 23 2020
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Cooper’s Office Now Claims He Meant To Say All Republicans Are Racist, Not Mentally Disabled
Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper is backtracking on his comments likening South Carolina Republican voters to people with Down syndrome and saying he has done it “for years.”
“I’ve said for years that they have extra chromosomes, South Carolina voters,” he said in a recent interview published in The Nashville Scene.“Anybody who could re-elect Lindsey Graham after his two-faced performance on
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