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Jun 01 2022
News
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
BBC NewsJun 20 2022
News
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
NBC News DigitalNov 03 2021
News
Wanted, due to supply chain shortages: used crutches, walkers and canes
From Utah to South Carolina and Kentucky, hospitals and charities are asking for gently used crutches, canes and walkers. Supplies are getting harder to come by thanks to — let’s all say it together — supply chain problems. The main issue seems to be the unreliable supply of aluminum, which is used to make the products.
In Bluffton, South Carolina, Beaufort Memorial Hospital put out a
PoynterAug 06 2013
News
State Dept. Orders Evacuation Of Embassy In Yemen
The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country following the threat by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa.
HuffPostJun 29 2020
Opinion
The Retrenchment Syndrome
In the decades after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, the simplistic but widely held belief that the war had been unjustified and unwinnable gave way to “the Vietnam syndrome”—a conviction that the United States should avoid all military interventions abroad. The mantra of “no more Vietnams” dominated foreign policy, muting more concrete discussions of what should be learned from that
H.R. McMasterMay 05 2022
News
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
Associated PressMay 16 2022
News
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
The GuardianSep 19 2021
News
Suburbs take center stage as U.S. growth slows
In 1990, fewer than 10,000 people lived in Meridian, Idaho, a sleepy bedroom community surrounded by farmland.
Now, with a population of 117,600, its main thoroughfare, Eagle Road, gets so congested at rush hour that motorists might forget they're in one the country’s most sparsely populated states.
The 2020 Census listed Meridian as one of the 10 fastest-growing large cities in
NBC News DigitalSep 08 2020
News
AstraZeneca pauses coronavirus vaccine trial after unexplained illness in volunteer
Drug giant AstraZeneca said Tuesday it had paused global trials of its coronavirus vaccine because of an unexplained illness in one of the volunteers.
It's a standard precaution in vaccine trials that is meant to ensure experimental vaccines don't cause serious reactions among participants.
"As part of the ongoing randomized, controlled global trials of the Oxford coronavirus
CNN Digital