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11-13-2024 4:44 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
MLK Breakfast
President Joe Biden delivers the Memorial Day Address at the 156th National Memorial Day Observance in the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., Monday, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have headed to the battleground state of Pennsylvania as they step up their reelection pitch to Black voters.
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Areas of cooperation include agriculture, cooperatives, micro, small and medium enterprises, energy and petroleum, information, communication, and the digital, film and creative economy, among others.
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Former President Donald Trump gives a thumb up as he goes for a break during his hush money trial in New York, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (Andrew Kelly/Pool Photo via AP)
The panel of New Yorkers could begin deliberating as early as Wednesday to decide if Trump is guilty of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments during the 2016 presidential campaign to a porn actor who claimed she had sex with him.
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Willie Earl Vereen (Photo credit: NNPA)
Vereen, who had battled liver cancer and endured years of dialysis, died at 5:30 a.m. while in hospice care. His death marks the passing of another key figure in the fight for racial justice in the 1970s.
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The case, Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the N.A.A.C.P., No. 22-807, presented a complex challenge of distinguishing the roles of race and partisanship in drawing voting maps, especially as Black voters predominantly support Democrats.
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Storms have killed at least 18 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. The storms obliterated homes and destroyed a truck stop where drivers took shelter during the latest deadly weather to strike the central U.S. BY Monday the danger will shift to the East
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Sha’Carri Richardson continued her march toward the Paris Olympics on Saturday at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, winning the women’s 100 meters in 10.83 seconds. Kenyan Beatrice Chebet set a world record in the 10,000 meters earlier in the day with a time of 28 minutes, 54.14 seconds, while American Christian Coleman won the men’s 100, in a season-best 9.95 seconds
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Melina Abdullah (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
Police have said three teenagers driven by racial hatred were behind so-called “swatting” calls across the country, including two in 2020 and 2021 at the Los Angeles home of Melina Abdullah, co-founder of BLM-LA and a Cal State LA professor.
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Jay Cossey (AP Photo/Mallory Wyatt)
Nearly half of Americans over 65 will pay for some version of long-term health care, the landscape of which is quickly transitioning away from nursing homes and toward community living situations. An analysis by The Associated Press with the help of CNHI News finds Black Americans are less likely to use residential care communities and more likely to live in nursing homes. Experts say the reasons behind the disparity are complicated — like personal and cultural preferences and financial considerations.
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State Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool, File)
The California Senate has passed a set of ambitious reparations proposals Tuesday. The bills would create an agency to help families research their family lineage, create a fund for reparations programs and compensate Black families for property the government unjustly seized from them. The bills are part of a slate of bills that were inspired by recommendations from a first-in-the-nation reparations task force.
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