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Written by by BOTWC Staff

Published: 04 May 2023

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Currently, Mitchell  has one of the top-performing locations in the city and is making history as one of the youngest Black women McDonald’s franchise owners at just 35 years old.

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Written by ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer

Published: 04 May 2023

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The union representing 11,500 writers of film, television and other entertainment forms are now on strike. It's the first writers’ strike — and the first Hollywood strike of any kind — in 15 years

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Written by STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press

Published: 04 May 2023

 

A judge has found a former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd guilty of aiding and abetting manslaughter.

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Written by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, LINDSAY WHITEHURST and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press

Published: 04 May 2023

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It’s a significant milestone for the Justice Department, which has now secured seditious conspiracy convictions against the leaders of two major extremist groups prosecutors say were intent on keeping Biden out of the White House at all costs.

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Written by By JUAN A. LOZANO and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press

Published: 03 May 2023

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A woman identified as the wife of a Texas man suspected of killing five of his neighbors was arrested Wednesday for allegedly helping the man elude capture for four days

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Written by CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press Writers

Published: 03 May 2023

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Rates on credit cards, mortgages and auto loans, which have been surging since the Fed began raising rates last year, all stand to rise even more. The result will be more burdensome loan costs for both consumers and businesses.

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Written by Eden Kamar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Christian Jordan Howell, University of South Florida

Published: 03 May 2023

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Social media sites and chatrooms are the most common methods used to facilitate contact with kids, and abuse occurs both online and offline. Increasingly, predators are using advances in technology to engage in technology-facilitated sexual abuse.

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Written by Loren Henderson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Ruby Mendenhall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Published: 03 May 2023

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Black mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America.

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Written by By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press

Published: 02 May 2023

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The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District sued Disney in state court in Orlando, and board members voted to defend itself in federal court in Tallahassee where the entertainment company filed its lawsuit last Wednesday.

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Written by By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer

Published: 01 May 2023

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The government’s report Thursday that the economy grew at a 1.1% annual rate last quarter signaled that one of the most-anticipated recessions in recent U.S. history has yet to arrive. Many economists, though, still expect a recession to hit as soon as the current April-June quarter