In the first real-world test of vaccine boosters specially designed to protect against the omicron variant, Israeli researchers have found that people 65 and over who got an updated jab were 81% less likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than those who did not.
NEW YORK — Thousands of nurses walked off the job early Monday at two major New York City hospitals after contract talks disintegrated overnight, leaving Mount Sinai in Manhattan and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx struggling to care for patients.
MOSCOW — American basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence for drug possession, her legal team said Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES — Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Southern California has won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot after more than three months without anyone hitting the top prize.
PHILADELPHIA – When Kip Jacobs, 63, was growing up in West Philly, his great-grandmother was the only family member who talked much about their ancestor James Forten, a free Black man who became a wealthy sailmaker in post-Revolutionary War Philadelphia.
MINNEAPOLIS — One of the two ex-Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting George Floyd’s killing pleaded guilty Monday, and the other officer agreed to waive his right to a jury trial that was scheduled to begin this week.
INDIANAPOLIS — A man has been convicted of reckless homicide in the fatal 2020 shooting of a young Black man in Indianapolis during unrest sparked by outrage over George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police.
WNBA Star Brittney Griner will remain in a Russian prison and serve the bulk of her 9-year sentence following the Moscow Regional Court’s decision on Tuesday to uphold her earlier conviction and sentence.
ST. LOUIS — The gunman who killed a student and teacher at a south St. Louis high school before police killed him Monday had about 600 rounds of ammunition inside the school and left behind handwritten notes about being a loner with no social life, which he called the perfect storm for a mas…
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine set Russia’s economy back four years in the first full quarter after the attack, putting it on track for one of the longest downturns on record even if less sharply than initially feared.
Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who lost the Aug. 9 presidential elections by a tiny margin, rejected the outcome of the vote and vowed to take constitutional steps to challenge it.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and legislation he signed Tuesday delivers a slimmer, though not insignificant, version of that once sweeping idea.
Travelers would be well-served to forgo 2022 European summer vacations due to high demand, and instead set their sights on trips in the fall and winter, said Eurobound, whose custom itineraries are sold exclusively through travel advisers.
Speaking to hundreds of civil rights activists gathered in Atlantic City, Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday framed the November midterm elections as an existential fight for liberty and progress, saying “extremist socalled leaders (are) attempting to undermine our democracy and assault …
Archaeologists in Virginia began excavating three suspected graves at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches on July 18, commencing a monthslong effort to learn who was buried there and how they lived.
BOYDTON, Va. — There was a time when Black farms prospered.
YAZOO CITY, Miss. — A white father and son in Mississippi have each been sentenced to four years in prison for convictions related to chasing and shooting at two Black teenagers who were riding all-terrain vehicles on a country road.
A Senate investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol found sweeping intelligence and law enforcement errors, including a lack of proper training and preparation for police who were unable to prevent protesters from breaching the building.
It’s the only country in the Western Hemisphere without COVID-19 vaccines.
celebrate Women’s History Month with a little inspiration BY ALEX KLINE/MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE As March is now upon us, we celebrate Women’s History Month and commemorate the amazing ladies who took women from having no legal existence to being political leaders. The field is as vast as it is div…
TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE Hundreds of girls abducted from their school in northwestern Nigeria last week have been released, a government official said Tuesday. “The girls have been released,” Zamfara State Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs Abubakar Dauran told dpa, referring to 317 chil…
Black history intelligence quotient BY ELI SANDERS The Seattle Times Black History Month began with historian Carter G. Woodson, who early in the last century came up with the idea for a “Negro History Week,” which he envisioned as a celebration of black history and achievement, as well as a…
BY THE FLORIDA COURIER STAFF After a hard-fought election, Joe Biden, 77, will become the 46th president of the United States. On Saturday, he picked up enough electoral college votes from Pennsylvania and Nevada to keep President Donald Trump from a second term. Senator Kamala Harris, 56, o…
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BY KATE LINTHICUM AND JULIA BARAJAS LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS MEXICO CITY — After a string of gruesome killings of women, feminist activists here began wondering: What if we all just disappeared? Mexico is about to find out. Women across the country are being urged to skip work next Monday, stay…
Katherine Johnson, the legendary NASA mathematician, dies at 101 BY MIKE HOLTZCLAW DAILY PRESS/TNS NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Katherine Johnson, the NASA Langley Research Center mathematician who went from “hidden” to hero in her late 90s, died on Feb. 24 at the age of 101. In the early days of the…
BY KATE FELDMAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/TNS Katherine Johnson, a trailblazing NASA mathematician whose story was told in the “Hidden Figures” book and movie, died Monday morning. She was 101. Johnson, a Black woman from West Virginia, was hired at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in …
BY JOSH ROTTENBERG LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS LOS ANGELES — In a surprise upset and a historic milestone, director Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” — a darkly comic class satire about two families, one rich and one poor, whose lives become entangled — won best picture Sunday night at the 92nd Academy Aw…
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BY JEFF BARKER THE BALTIMORE SUN/TNS BALTIMORE – Kweisi Mfume took a major step toward reclaiming the Baltimore-area U.S. House seat he held for 10 years, capturing the Democratic nomination to succeed his longtime friend, the powerful Elijah Cummings. The former NAACP leader, 71, topped a f…
Trump’s extended travel ban takes effect on Feb. 21 TRICE EDNEY NEWSWIRE/GIN She’s your pediatrician. He’s your surgeon. She’s a civil engineer. He has a doctorate. She’s an Emmy Award winner. He was a Chicago Bear. They’re Nigerian-Americans who have set down roots in Dallas, Chicago, Balti…
BY JAWEED KALEEM LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS OSWIECIM, Poland – It was 3 p.m. on Jan. 27, 1945, when the 322nd Rifle Division of the Soviet army entered Auschwitz, unaware of the inhumanity at the concentration camp where Nazis had killed more than 1.1 million people, the vast majority of them Jew…
Sports fans in the United States and around the world – plus people who are not necessarily sports-oriented – are mourning the sudden death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant at the age of 41. BY BARRINGTON M. SALMON TRICE EDNEY NEWSWIRE Two years removed from retirement after 20 years in the NBA, th…
BY LISA M. KRIEGER THE MERCURY NEWS/TNS SAN JOSE, Calif. – Residents at the epicenter of China’s mysterious viral outbreak are quarantined. But their mailed shipments are not. Does that pose a risk? It’s a legitimate question because we import so many products from China. But U.S. health off…
Tectonic plates grinding against each other is the reason for the recent tremor in the Caribbean, which was felt in Florida. BY JIM WYSS MIAMI HERALD/TNS MIAMI — The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking the Caribbean is shaking itself apart. Tuesday’s massive 7.7 magnitude earthqua…
BY GEORGE VARGA SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE/TNS Alicia Keys is wasting no time promoting her upcoming seventh studio album, “Alicia,” which will be released March 20. On Tuesday morning, the 15-time Grammy Award winner announced her “Alicia — The World Tour” 2020 concert trek, which opens June 5…
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’” Here is the entire text of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, […]
Celebrating the legacy of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. BY STACEY HOLLENBECK MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his mark on history during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Motivated by his faith, King fought against the oppression of his…
BY ANDREAS BUTLER FLORIDA COURIER There are plenty of events across Florida for residents seeking to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Events include concerts, parades, breakfasts, festivals and more in cities statewide. Dr. Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta o…
BY JOHN M. DONNELLY CQ-ROLL CALL/TNS WASHINGTON – The defense authorization bill that President Donald Trump is expected to sign into law soon would require the Defense Department to report to Congress on efforts to rid official military documents of “racially or ethnically insensitive” term…
BY THERESA BRAINE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/TNS Out of 90 contestants, Zozibini Tunzi of South Africa took the crown for Miss Universe 2019, with Madison Anderson, Miss Puerto Rico, coming in as first runner-up. In 2018, South Africa’s Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters crowned Catriona Gray of the Philippine…
BY REX CRUM MERCURY NEWS/TNS If you use your Visa credit card to pay at the pump for your gas, you might want to take a closer look at your next card statement just in case something appears off. That’s because Visa has issued a security alert saying that groups of hackers have been able […]
BY AMINA KHAN LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS LOS ANGELES — A provocative study that linked police killings of unarmed Black people with health problems in Black infants has been retracted due to problems with the data used in the analysis. A preliminary effort to repeat the analysis with corrected d…
Campers protest ordinance that would limit access to historically Black recreation spot. PENNY DICKERSON /FLORIDA COURIER Peri Francis-Betsch addresses county commissioners at the Nov. 18 meeting in Nassau County where a pending ordinance threatens a long-term legacy of beach camping. BY PEN…
Bill would protect people who wear natural hairstyles BY STEVEN LEMONGELLO ORLANDO SENTINEL/TNS ORLANDO – People who wear African American hairstyles, including natural, dreadlocks, twists, cornrows and braids, would be protected from discrimination in schools and at work under a bill propos…
The Democrats and corporate media don’t really oppose what Donald Trump is doing in Syria or anywhere else. Trump says that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by the United States military. Baghdadi was the founder of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is also known as ISIS…
BY STACY M. BROWNNNPA NEWSWIRE The 43rd stamp in the United States Postal Service’s Black Heritage series honors Gwen Ifill, one of America’s most esteemed journalists. The stamp features a photo of Ifill taken in 2008 by photographer Robert Severi and designed by Derry Noyes, according to …
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BY GARY ROBBINSTHE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE/TNS SAN DIEGO – Jessica Meir and Christina Koch made history on Friday, becoming the first all-female team of astronauts to perform a spacewalk. Meir and Koch floated out of the International Space Station shortly before 5 a.m. PDT for a roughly 5.5…
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