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1 day agoAP finds most arrested in protests aren't leftist radicalsThe Department of Justice is using aggressive tactics against those it has charged in the civil unrest over racism.
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Conservatives staging free speech rally attacked by criticsA free speech demonstration staged by conservative activists quickly fell apart in downtown San Francisco Saturday after several hundred counter-protestors surged the are...
Organizers exhort women to vote for change at US rallies A mostly young, diverse crowd of masked women is rallying in the nation’s capital, exhorting voters to oppose President Donald Trump and his fellow Republican candidates ...
US resorts adapt to new normal of skiing amid pandemic Roughly seven months after the coronavirus cut the ski season short at the height of spring break, resorts across the U.S. and Canada are picking up the pieces and trying...
Black immigrants find camaraderie, divide amid protestsInspired by global protests against systemic racism and police brutality, a Nigerian American lifestyle blogger delivered a message to Black immigrant communities in the ...
Rural Midwest hospitals struggling to handle virus surgeRural Jerauld County in South Dakota didn’t see a single case of the coronavirus for more than two months stretching from June to August.
For Trump, city where 'bad things happen' looms largeWhen President Donald Trump told the world that “bad things happen in Philadelphia,” it was, in part, a blunt assessment of his party’s struggles in a city that routinely...
