Eric Holder, the former U.S. attorney general, announced Monday that he would not run for president in 2020 and would instead work to end gerrymandering.
A growing number of lawmakers in Maryland are calling this week for the resignation of a white Democratic state delegate over her use of a racist slur during an after-hours gathering with her colleagues.Uganda New York Times world23 Feb 2019
Pinterest, a digital platform popular with parents, took an unusual step to crack down on the proliferation of anti-vaccination propaganda: It purposefully hobbled its search box.Uganda New York Times world18 Feb 2019
The complaint did not mention how the W2 came to include incorrect information. Representatives for Bridges Nursing and Rehabilitation did not respond to a request for comment this week.
The average tax refund is usually a couple of thousand dollars, but a man in Florida who earned less than $3,500 mistakenly received a check for a much higher amount: $980,000.Uganda New York Times world11 Feb 2019
By the end of February, students at Manatee School for the Arts in Palmetto, Florida, will see two former combat veterans in body armor roaming the grounds, each carrying a 9-millimeter Glock handgun and a semi-automatic rifle with a 17-inch barrel.Uganda New York Times world4 Feb 2019
In the days after President Donald Trump was elected, some women saw his victory as reason to worry: Would he fulfill his campaign promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act? And if so, would it eventually become harder and costlier to obtain birth control?
Trump, responding to a Q-and-A that Warren posted on Instagram Live a couple of weeks ago, used a line referring to Wounded Knee and Bighorn that mocked Warren’s claims of Native American heritage.
It has been more than a century since the Wounded Knee massacre and the Battle of Little Bighorn, but both these notorious conflicts were thrust into a national conversation about Native Americans and race following President Donald Trump’s Sunday night tweet directed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Daniel Borden, one of four men convicted of beating a black man at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, was sentenced Monday to nearly four years in prison.Uganda New York Times world7 Jan 2019
They had been visiting Cameron’s grandmother in Brooklyn, where one of his relatives was making fish, and Cameron had an asthma attack, Jean-Pierre said.
Zainab Mughal, a 2-year-old girl from Miami, needs blood transfusions for her cancer treatment but she has a blood type so rare that so far only four donors worldwide have been identified.Uganda New York Times world5 Jan 2019
NEW YORK — An 11-year-old boy who died on New Year’s Day after visiting family members in Brooklyn may have had a fatal reaction to fish proteins released into the air while his relatives cooked.Uganda New York Times world29 Dec 2018
A Yemeni mother who fought to obtain a visa waiver to travel to California to see her terminally ill 2-year-old son was finally reunited Dec. 19 with her only child.Uganda New York Times entertainment29 Dec 2018
Former President Barack Obama on Friday shared some of the books, movies and music he found most inspiring or thought-provoking in 2018, including works that he “just plain loved,” compiling them into a year-end list posted on Facebook.Uganda New York Times world28 Dec 2018
Air travel can be a headache, especially during the holidays, but that didn’t stop one father from accompanying his youngest daughter on six flights so she wouldn’t be alone during her first Christmas working as a flight attendant for Delta.Uganda New York Times world22 Dec 2018
The Nativity scene at Fellowship Congregational Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, looks a little different this year: There is a chain-link fence surrounding Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus.Uganda New York Times world17 Dec 2018
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