For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled out diabetes before finally chalking up her ailments to getting older. But months of intense back pain eventually landed her in the emergency room, where a doctor …
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A statue of a Confederate general that was torn down and set on fire in 2020 during social justice protests in Washington has been reinstalled under orders from President Donald Trump. General Albert Pike’s statue has long been a source of controversy, as have many Confederate monuments across the US which were erected decades after the Civil War. The National …
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OpenAI‘s latest AI video generation model, Sora 2, wowed users with its more realistic images and physics when it debuted with an invite-only release earlier this month — even as it ran into immediate problems with copyright infringement and deepfakes of historical figures including Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy. The company took predictable steps to cover its …
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Vikings cornerback Isaiah Rodgers sounded off earlier today about racial slurs directed to him on social media. The Vikings organization has echoed his concerns, in no uncertain terms. “We are disgusted by the racial slurs directed at Isaiah Rodgers following yesterday’s game,” the team said in a statement. “As we have said previously, there simply is no room for racist …
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The Supreme Court has kicked off its new term with two extremely important but difficult cases involving sex, race, and partisan power in Congress. One is a First Amendment case dealing with “conversion therapy,” plunging the Court once again into trans issues. The other deals with redrawing House districts along racial lines and could determine which party wins the 2026 …
Read More »Newsom Rejects Reparations Bills in Latest Sign of Racial Justice Shift The New York Times Reparations leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Newsom vetoes university bill The Guardian Newsom rejects bill giving descendants of slaves preference in college admissions Politico California’s Newsom signs a reparations study law but vetoes other racial justice proposals AP News Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes 5 bills for ‘reparative justice’ for Black …
Read More »A panel of federal judges began considering Wednesday whether Texas can use a redrawn congressional map that boosts Republicans and launched an expanding redistricting battle ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The case in an El Paso courtroom is the first test of Texas’ new map. Republican state lawmakers quickly redrew the lines this summer to give the GOP five …
Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, three people familiar with the matter said Friday. The bureau last spring had reassigned the agents but has since fired them, said the people, who insisted …
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Aug 30, 2025, 12:03 PM ET TAMPERE, Finland — Germany captain Dennis Schröder faced racial abuse during his team’s 107-88 victory over Lithuania at EuroBasket on Saturday, and one fan was banned from attending the rest of the tournament by FIBA officials. The German Basketball Association said two people were identified as the alleged perpetrators of the abuse and were …
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President Donald Trump’s plot to control American history got a sharp takedown from a top Democrat on Sunday. Last Tuesday, the president raged about the “out of control” and “woke” Smithsonian Institution in a post on Truth Social, complaining how its museums only focused on how “horrible our Country is” and “bad Slavery was.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) …
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