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President Joe Biden awards the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Opal Lee during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Friday, May 3, 2024, in Washington. Lee's persistent activism helped make Juneteenth a national holiday. Photo credit: Alex Brandon, The Associated Press

National

Biden awards Medal of Freedom to Medgar Evers, Opal Lee, Nancy Pelosi and 15 others

May 4, 2024
By Darlene Superville
The Associated Press

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National

Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police

April 30, 2024
By Ryan J. Foley, Carla K. Johnson & Shelby Lum
The Associated Press

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In this image from video provided by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Chinedu Okobi lies on the ground in Millbrae, California, on Oct. 3, 2018, during a police encounter where officers used a stun gun, chemical spray, baton strikes and prone restraint in a sequence of rapid escalation. San Mateo County deputies told the district attorney they were reacting to what they perceived as Okobi's "superhuman strength." Photo credit: San Mateo County Sheriff's Office via The Associated Press

National

Myth of ‘superhuman strength’ in Black people persists in deadly encounters with police

April 26, 2024
By Shahid Meighan, Nathan Collins & Elena Santa Cruz
Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

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Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry, right, attends a working session at the Canada-CARICOM Summit in Ottawa, Ontario, Oct. 18, 2023. Henry resigned on April 25, 2024, leaving the way clear for a new government to be formed in the Caribbean country. Photo credit: Sean Kilpatrick, The Canadian Press via The Associated Press

Global

Ariel Henry resigns as prime minister of Haiti, paving the way for a new government to take power

April 25, 2024
By The Associated Press
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The Fifth Ward Elementary School and residential neighborhoods sit near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant in Reserve, Louisiana, Sept. 23, 2022. More than 20 Republican attorneys general on April 16, 2024, asked the EPA to stop investigating environmental policies that disproportionately harm Black people but aren't intentionally discriminatory. The petition is unlikely to convince the Biden administration to back away from an issue EPA Administrator Michael Regan has taken pains to highlight, like visiting the industrial stretch of Louisiana typically called Cancer Alley. Photo credit: Gerald Herbert, The Associated Press

Politics

Republican AGs attack Biden’s EPA for pursuing environmental racism cases

April 24, 2024
By The Associated Press
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Arts & culture

Nigerian chess champion sets new global chess record, plays for 60 hours in New York’s Times Square

April 22, 2024
By The Associated Press
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