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A financial snapshot shared exclusively with the Associated Press shows the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation took in just over $90 million last year.
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The wife of Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman to remain jailed for now, accused of helping run his criminal empire and plot his escape from a Mexican prison.
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Boston is facing a historic shift with the expected departure of its white male mayor, who will be succeeded, at least temporarily, by a Black woman.
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A sewing machine, a Pacific freighter and a Detroit family’s loss: The story of one body bag’s life cycle and the hands that touched it along the way.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing President Biden to forgo the typical pomp of a first meeting with a foreign leader, in this case Justin Trudeau.
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At least 160 Confederate symbols were taken down or moved from U.S. public spaces in 2020, a year of national reckoning over racial injustice.
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An Egyptian official says at least nine people have died in a shipwreck in a lake near Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
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Train zombies. Historic zombies. High-rise apartment zombies. DMZ zombies. The undead are proliferating in South Korea’s imagination.
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The late conservative radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh remains a divisive figure as officials in Florida debate whether to lower flags in his honor.
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More than half a million people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19. Hope is in sight, but devastation remains.
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Congress is set to hear from security officials on law-enforcement failures at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when Trump supporters went on a rampage.
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Facebook is to lift its ban on Australians sharing news following a deal with the government on a proposal to make digital giants pay for journalism.
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Now that a high court decision will let New York prosecutors get access to former President Trump’s tax records, what will those documents reveal?
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With coronavirus cases plummeting and vaccinations rising, herd immunity may finally be on the horizon, experts say.
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COVID-19 vaccines adapted for new coronavirus variants can receive authorization from the Food and Drug Administration without repeating full clinical trials.
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The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested on intrnational drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia.
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The results of an investigation into the fatal arrest of Elijah McClain in suburban Denver criticizes how police handled the entire incident.
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States are trying to catch up after winter weather closed clinics, slowed vaccine deliveries and forced tens of thousands of people to miss their shots.
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Libyan authorities say they raided a secret prison used by human traffickers and freed at last 156 African migrants, including 15 women and 5 children.
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Gov. Phil Murphy has signed legislation to set up a recreational pot marketplace, decriminalize cannabis and loosen penalties for underage possession.
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Drew Pavlou’s battle against the University of Queensland illustrates China’s influence over a key U.S. ally.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes chips for iPhones, video game consoles and fighter jets. Now it’s being forced to choose sides.
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In U.S.-China dispute over missile defense system, Beijing punishes South Korea by restricting tourism and holding trade hostage.
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Beijing’s aggressive South China Sea expansion shows its willingness to defy international laws for President Xi Jinping’s visions of power.
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China’s paramount leader, Xi Jinping, sees himself as a savior, anointed to steer the Communist Party and China away from corruption and foreign influence, into a ‘new era’ of prosperity, power and political devotion. Whether his vision matches reality is another question.
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China’s oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?
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China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s crackdown on Hong Kong is purging teachers, rewriting textbooks and increasing pressure on schools over what to put in the minds of students. A new national security law has endangered freedom of thought and expression.
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Train zombies. Historic zombies. High-rise apartment zombies. DMZ zombies. The undead are proliferating in South Korea’s imagination.
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A sewing machine, a Pacific freighter and a Detroit family’s loss: The story of one body bag’s life cycle and the hands that touched it along the way.
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On a Thursday night in early March, a Malawian man named Gilbert Daire was woken by the sound of people trying to drill through his wall.
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The wife of Mexican drug kingpin and escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been arrested on intrnational drug trafficking charges at an airport in Virginia.
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The Biden administration is boosting federal COVID-19 pandemic assistance for small businesses, especially those owned by women and people of color.