5 takeaways from AP’s series on health disparities impacting Black Americans
By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press The Associated Press spent a year examining how racial health disparities have harmed generations of Black…
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US Border Patrol says agents who killed man in Arizona were answering report of gunfire
By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say U.S. Border Patrol agents answering reports of gunfire shot and killed a man on a…
Continue ReadingMedical racism in history causes health inequalities for Black Americans
By KAT STAFFORD, AARON MORRISON and ANNIE MA Associated Press The health inequities for Black Americans, documented in a series of stories by The…
Continue ReadingCars set on fire in Cardiff as UK police face ‘large scale disorder’ after road crash
LONDON (AP) — Several dozen youths pelted police with objects and set cars and trash bins ablaze in Cardiff in local unrest that erupted after two…
Continue ReadingA lifetime of racism makes Alzheimer’s more prevalent in Black Americans
By KAT STAFFORD Associated Press FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Constance Guthrie is not yet dead, but her daughter has begun to plan her funeral. It…
Continue ReadingJokic leads Denver Nuggets past LeBron’s Lakers 113-111, into their first NBA Finals
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nikola Jokic had 30 points, 14 rebounds and 13 assists, and the Denver Nuggets advanced to the…
Continue ReadingJudge dismisses Kari Lake’s final claim in election loss for Arizona governor
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed the only remaining legal claim in Republican Kari Lake’s challenge of her loss in last year’s…
Continue ReadingFederal judge extends temporary halt on appointed judges in Mississippi capital
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has extended his order temporarily stopping the Mississippi Supreme…
Continue ReadingIranian leader visits Indonesia to deepen economic ties amid global geopolitical challenges
By ACHMAD IBRAHIM and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has met with his Indonesian…
Continue Reading9th Circuit rules US deportation law that fueled family separations is ‘neutral as to race’
By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that a U.S. deportation law that fueled family separations at the…
Continue ReadingShelters start to fill in Guam as US territory in Pacific braces for Typhoon Mawar
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities in Guam warned anyone not living in a fully concrete house to head to…
Continue Reading‘Mother Nature has no mercy’: Man gets stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats, drowns as tide comes in
By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up…
Continue ReadingActor Jeremy Renner wants tax credits for film projects in northern Nevada, but he may have to wait
By GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Actor Jeremy Renner’s hopes to expand a measure for the film…
Continue ReadingFederal agents, prosecutors going after machine-gun conversion devices in Tennessee
By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Twenty-six people in Tennessee have been recently convicted or face charges for possessing…
Continue ReadingA’s broadcaster Glen Kuiper let go after racial slur on air
By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper was let go by NBC Sports California after using a…
Continue ReadingBiden’s shift on F-16s for Ukraine came after months of internal debate
By AAMER MADHANI and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s decision to allow allies to train Ukrainian forces…
Continue ReadingOver 150 doctors on strike at NYC hospital that was once called pandemic epicenter
NEW YORK (AP) — About 160 resident physicians have gone on strike over what they called low pay at a public hospital in New York City. Elmhurst…
Continue ReadingNames of farmworker victims in deadly Oregon crash released
ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — The names of the farmworkers killed and injured Thursday in one of Oregon’s deadliest highway crashes have been released. The…
Continue ReadingTaxpayers will wind up paying over quarter billion dollars in Joe Arpaio’s racial profiling case
By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The taxpayer bill for the racial profiling case stemming from former Maricopa County Sheriff…
Continue ReadingDemocrats advance gun-control bills in Pennsylvania House
By BROOKE SCHULTZ Associated Press/Report for America HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Authorities could temporarily seize firearms and background checks…
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