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11-17-2024 8:48 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is dropping out of the 2024 race throwing his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris, the party’s instant favorite for the nomination at its August convention in Chicago. Many Democrats say his is among the most consequential in a lifetime because of Trump’s plans for a dramatic government overhaul formed around his grievances. Biden’s decision came as he has been isolating at his Delaware beach house after being diagnosed with COVID-19 last week. He's encouraging the party to unite behind Harris
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A historic gold-rush town in Northern California is at the center of a fight led by Black families seeking reparations for land seized from their ancestors
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(Randy Hoeft/The Yuma Sun via AP, File)
Deere's move arrives just weeks after rural retailer Tractor Supply ended an array of its corporate diversity and climate efforts. While the companies’ responses differed, both arrive amid a wider backdrop of conservative backlash that has been targeting companies across industries.
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Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, and his sister Ellisha Garner (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Garner died after a confrontation with officers who accused him of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. His death spurred protests in New York and across the country. Neither state or federal prosecutors chose to file criminal charges against Pantaleo or the other officers who were present.
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is moved from the stage at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A former fire chief who was killed is being remembered as a ‘man of conviction.’ Two other people were wounded. The 20-year-old man who authorities say carried out the attack is believed to have acted alone.
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday sided with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges against Trump was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. The judge's ruling can be appealed and may be overruled by a higher court.
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Some residents are concerned construction and pollution from the facility will destroy the historic Black community of Wallace. Other residents hope it will bring jobs and revitalize the town. They fear that without it, Wallace's population will continue to decline.
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(Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)
The remains of C.L. Daniel of Georgia were identified through DNA from descendants of his brothers. White people killed many as 300 Black people during the massacre. Daniel's remains are among approximately 120 graves exhumed during three searches that began in 2020.
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President Joe Biden (Photo: NNPA)
NNPA NEWSWIRE — President Joe Biden has successfully chartered the support of high-ranking Congress members with an endorsement from the Congressional Black Caucus. The group met with the leader virtually on Monday eager to learn more about a campaign comeback plan after turmoil sparked by the June 27 presidential debate.
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As he prepares to accept the Republican nomination for the third time, Donald Trump has promised to expand his coalition — and, in particular, to win over more of the nonwhite voters who largely rejected him during the 2020 election. But an AP analysis of two consecutive polls from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research conducted in June shows that about 7 in 10 Black Americans have a somewhat or very unfavorable view of Trump, as do about half of Hispanic Americans.
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