• about-gun-violence
• about-privacy
• about-gun-control

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Written by Stacy M. Brown

Published: 28 October 2024

Photo: NNPA 

The covert operation, spearheaded by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), aimed to bolster pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House.

• about-Puerto-Rico
• Donald-Trump
• about-Kamala-Harris
• Puerto-Rico-hurricane
• Election2024

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Written by ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press

Published: 28 October 2024

FILE - Bad Bunny poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) 

A comedian at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally made crude jokes about Latinos and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage."

• about-elections
• about-black-voters
• about-philadelphia
• about-Kamala-Harris

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Written by DARLENE SUPERVILLE, MARYCLAIRE DALE and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press

Published: 28 October 2024

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) 

Kamala Harris is seeking to energize voters in Philadelphia, a crucial Democratic stronghold. She needs strong turnout in the city to overcome Republican Donald Trump's strength in Pennsylvania's rural areas. During a rally at the end of the day, Harris said “no one can sit on the sidelines” in the election. 

• about-police-reform
• About-ferguson-missouri
• about-black-lives-matter

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Written by MATT BROWN Associated Press

Published: 28 October 2024

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) 

Many people went from proclaiming “Black Lives Matter” to running for positions at statehouses, prosecutorial offices, city halls and the halls of Congress, and often winning. But a list of deeper changes to federal law remains undone.

• artificial intelligence
• misinformation

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Written by GARANCE BURKE and HILKE SCHELLMANN Associated Press

Published: 27 October 2024

 

Experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.

• about-Iran
• about-election
• about-China
• about-Russia
• election-interference

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Written by DAVID KLEPPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

Published: 27 October 2024

 

Foreign threats to the upcoming U.S. election are on the rise as Nov. 5 approaches. Russia, Iran and China have all launched campaigns designed to support or oppose certain candidates, while also stoking division and distrust in elections. U.S. officials are moving more aggressively to call them out after lessons learned from past election cycles. They are adopting a more aggressive stance, moving to quickly call out election disinformation and cyberespionage while also assuring voters that they will be able to trust the results when all the ballots are counted.

• about-slavery
• about-intergenerational-poverty
• Reparations

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Written by Neil K R Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania and Ashwini Sehgal, Case Western Reserve University

Published: 25 October 2024

The Oak Alley Plantation, in Vacherie, La. The grand homes in this area were built by immensely wealthy sugar planters prior to the Civil War. Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images  

New study demonstrates the enduring legacy of slavery

• about-homelessness
• about-homicide
• about-Michael-Jackson
• New-York-City-subway

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Written by Stacy M. Brown

Published: 25 October 2024

Photo: NNPA 

The trial began this week and is expected to last six weeks, with the defense and prosecution planning to rely heavily on the four-minute video to make their case.

• about-gender-gap
• about-Kamala-Harris
• black-women-in-politics

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Written by Angela L. Bos, Dean and Professor, School of Public Service, Boise State University, Daphne Joanna van der Pas, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Loes Aaldering Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, Vrije Universite

Published: 25 October 2024

(AP Photo/Mike Stewart) 

Stereotypes have long hindered female candidates, casting them as emotional, weak and sensitive. But now our political science research shows that voters in the U.S. increasingly see women leaders as synonymous with political leadership – and as more effective than men politicians.

• about-henrietta-lacks
• Tuskegee-Medical-Experiment
• Reparations

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Written by MARYCLAIRE DALE Legal Affairs Writer

Published: 24 October 2024

Edward Anthony speaks of his time at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia and the tests in which he participated while incarcerated there, Oct. 24, 2007. (Michael Bryant/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File) 

Philadelphia prison officials had allowed an Ivy League researcher to conduct human testing on incarcerated people, many of them Black, for decades.