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Federal judges said Tuesday that they will draft new congressional lines for Alabama after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, as suggested by the court. The three-judge panel blocked use of the state's newly drawn congressional map in next year's elections. A special master will be tapped to draw new districts for the

Vice President Kamala Harris returned to Florida Tuesday and continued to take aim at the state's widely panned new Black history curriculum standard that suggests enslaved people learned skills that could later benefit them. "Right here in Florida, they plan to teach students that enslaved people benefitted from slavery," Harris said in remarks at a Women's Missionary Society of the African

“If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.” — Jimmy Buffet Most of us knew Jimmy Buffett as a recording artist. Many also knew him as the owner of the Key West bar that attracts Parrotheads from the world over. But Buffett was more than a musician. He built an empire that included restaurants, apparel, casinos, a beer label, and even a retirement community. He was also an

MANISTEE, Mich. — The U.S. Coast Guard and other emergency teams continue to clean up a diesel spill on Lake Michigan that began Wednesday afternoon near where the Manistee River enters into the lake. U.S. Coast Guard Captain Seth Parker, Sector Lake Michigan, said the initial call from a freighter called the Manitowac came in at 2:50 p.m. that day. “The maximum potential spill for the vessel