Democrat Scott Colom hasn't won Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, but the local prosecutor was welcomed as a historic figure as he strolled through the Jackson business district where civil rights leaders once organized.

Latino voters moved sharply to the left in the midterm elections, helping Democrats achieve significant victories in Texas and in key House races nationwide.

Awkwafina has taken a surprising turn in her career by diving into the culinary world.

Strong turnout among Black voters helped propel several Black candidates to surprise victories in the midterm elections and led to razor-thin losses in other races.

A veteran Arab lawmaker in Israel says his bloc is willing to break with decades of precedent and join forces with Jewish-led parties in a shared bid to end Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long rule.

An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-year-old boy.

This midterm election will be remembered not just for the stunning number of losses Democrats handed to President Donald Trump and Republicans but for a wave of historic firsts across the country.

The parents of a 1-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a police officer in Mississippi have demanded a meeting with the state official who ruled that the shooting was justified.

David Mendizábal is directing a revival of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s "In the Heights," a musical that was Mendizábal's introduction to theater.

The Trump administration’s online accounts have circulated images of a pumpkin carved with a sombrero design and a fake Halloween-themed background around a Black man apparently accused of food assistance fraud.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says President Donald Trump has agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a 15-year-old immigrant from Ghana who was shot to death earlier this week.

A fire Saturday morning damaged the building of a beleaguered police department in Mississippi that has drawn outrage from the community in recent months after an officer shot and killed a 1-year-old.

November marks the start of National Native American Heritage Month.

Bard College in New York's Hudson Valley has opened a center dedicated to Ralph Ellison, a key figure in Black arts and literature.

King Charles III has landed in the South American country of Guyana, a former British colony that was the site of one of the biggest slave revolts in the Caribbean during the colonial era.

A thwarted mass shooting at a Hindu temple near Chicago is stoking new fears for the area’s South Asian community, tainting a typically joyful season of faith and family gatherings.

Dolores Huerta fought for causes even in her golden years, when many others would be enjoying retirement.

Dolores Huerta's death has sparked an outpouring of emotions from activists, including many who credit the civil rights icon with inspiring them to become public servants and community organizers.

Legendary labor organizer Dolores Huerta has died.

Georgia Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is trying to make history as the first Black woman to be elected governor in the United States.

It's been nine months since intensive care nurse Alex Pretti was killed by federal officers during the Trump administration's immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church reports that two attacks in Oromia have killed at least 60 Orthodox Christians.

The royals are coming, and the Caribbean wants to be heard.

Robin Rue Simmons has been working to address the legacy of slavery in the United States.

An upstate New York woman has been charged with voting illegally in one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections.

State officials say in court filings that the federal government has stopped sharing evidence with Minnesota authorities who are investigating the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal officers.

Mississippi has released video showing the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy by a police officer.

Signs and exhibits about slavery, climate change, and Native Americans have been removed from national parks across the country as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to eliminate what it calls disparaging material.

If Deb Haaland wins New Mexico’s race for governor, she’ll make history as the first Native American woman to lead a state.

Federal prosecutors announced they have broken up a fraudulent marriage ring in Massachusetts that conducted dozens of bogus ceremonies with immigrants over the past decade and netted participant millions of dollars.

The Wiikwemkoong First Nation in Canada is using a data center to help preserve its heritage.

Fans who don’t usually watch the WNBA might be asking why the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream weren't on the court during the playing of the national anthem ahead of Game 1 or 2 of the league’s championship series.

The Halloween-themed episodes of “The Simpsons” have always been a treat of spooky stand-alone storylines.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case about race in middle school admissions.

A new AP-NORC/AAPI data poll finds that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander adults have become more disillusioned with President Donald Trump and Republicans as the midterm elections approach.

The path to a House majority on Capitol Hill runs through heavily Latino districts in states such as Arizona, Colorado and Texas.

Rabbi Elie Abadie, who left Lebanon over 50 years ago, remains deeply connected to his Lebanese roots.

It’s an icon, the small white receptacle made from a single piece of cardboard folded into a trapezoid-shaped box.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday it reached a settlement forcing reforms for a Mississippi city and its police department, which the DOJ found discriminated against Black people, used excessive force and retaliated against critics.

Authorities have arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of attempting a mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Aurora, Illinois.

Illinois authorities believe a 19-year-old man charged with planning a mass shooting at a Hindu temple in suburban Chicago entered the building’s parking lot on Sunday, hours before police arrested him near his home after receiving a tip about the alleged attack plan.

The legacy of the Black Panther Party lives on six decades after its founding, in the work of a Seattle medical center started to address systemic health disparities in the African American community.

Jury selection is underway in Buffalo, New York, in a federal trial that could lead to the death penalty for a white supremacist who killed 10 people at a supermarket.

The first member the Navajo Nation to play in the NFL got a hero’s welcome in New Mexico on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Victor Martinez runs a Spanish-language radio station in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and talks about voters' frustration with everyday realities like higher fuel prices and inflation ahead of next month’s midterm election.

Despite both a rise in costs and fears around immigration crackdowns, some Latinos are committing to championing other Latino entrepreneurs by offering access to a storefront.

The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, one of the oldest Black churches in the U.S., celebrated the reconstruction of its original meeting house with a re-dedication on Friday.

An effort to address decades of underfunding at some historically Black college and universities kicked off Wednesday with a lawsuit against the state of Missouri.

Opal Lee, a driving force in making Juneteenth a federal holiday, spent her 100th birthday on Wednesday at the center of celebrations in her Texas hometown.

Three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black college student who went missing from a Mississippi island and was later found dead, are suing NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for defamation.

The Trump administration is creating a team of attorneys to represent children who traveled alone to the United States in immigration proceedings, which critics say would deprive them of having lawyers who aren’t employed by the government and could put them at greater risk of deportation.

In her new cookbook, “Have You Eaten Yet.

Ming-Na Wen's acting breakthrough was in the 1993 film adaptation of Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck Club.”.

A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid.

An American citizen shot by a federal agent one year ago during an immigration crackdown in Chicago has filed suit against the federal government, alleging the agent lied about the shooting and had fired into her vehicle from behind.

AriZona Iced Tea has long been a symbol of childhood autonomy and simple pleasures.

“Four Rivers Six Ranges” brings Tibet’s little-known resistance history to the screen through the story of ordinary Tibetans who helped the Dalai Lama escape to India in 1959.

As midterm elections approach, some voters are worried about immigration enforcement officers at polling places.

A Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot by a federal immigration agent in Texas has had surgery to remove the bullet lodged in his back.

The Trump administration's push to shine a spotlight on noncitizen voting is highlighting how rare it is.

President Donald Trump's campaign rally on the Choctaw Nation puts him in rare company.

A Venezuelan delivery driver shot by an ICE agent in Texas has been ordered to remain jailed on charges of assaulting an officer.

Human rights advocates have asked a United Nations panel to intervene in a new U.S. government practice that they say amounts to the “enforced disappearance” of noncitizens.

A federal judge has ended the 23-year federal monitoring of the Oakland Police Department, marking the longest oversight of a police department in U.S. history.

The most biting insult in Alaska politics is to be accused of being aligned with the “Lower 48."

A prosecutor who has been accused of misconduct over a failed attempt to bring felony charges against six protesters of the federal immigration crackdown in Chicago has resigned.

Meatpacking industry groups are raising concerns about recent immigration operations in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.

A police detective says Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a “staged” lynching behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer.

New Jersey’s Democratic lieutenant governor has resigned after being pushed out by the governor over accusations of ethics lapses and inappropriate behavior with women.

Senator Ted Cruz targeted Muslim Americans at the recent Republican midterm convention, declaring that Sharia law “has no place in America.”.

The Trump administration has shifted the approach to civil rights enforcement in American schools.

Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty in the upcoming trial against a 71-year-old Utah man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing that he says he didn’t commit.

After 24 seasons, the Mohegan Tribe and the WNBA's Connecticut Sun are parting ways.

An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement.

Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia has shattered a peace pact that ended a devastating two-year war in 2022.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture will celebrate its 10-year anniversary with packed exhibits, sold-out galas and high-profile panels.

The family of Nolan Wells is continuing to release pieces of their independent investigation, as they push for transparency from local investigators and for federal authorities to investigate.

A Democratic congressman says a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas has been told by a specialist he needs surgery to remove a bullet near his spine.

A Kentucky State University women’s basketball player was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement when she arrived at the airport in Louisville to fly to New York for a tournament.

Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect.

A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of not receiving proper care for his diabetes is the third detainee in less than six months to die at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Louisiana.

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration directive that would have barred some immigrants from accessing Head Start preschools, plus other federal programs.

British prosecutors have accused a doctor of overseeing six killings during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

A grand jury has found there wasn’t evidence to bring charges in the death of Nolan Wells.

A U.N. report says the Nicaraguan government is responsible for at least eight deaths in custody since 2018.

The attorney for a North Carolina girl accused of helping two teens who carried out a fatal attack on a San Diego mosque says prosecutors haven’t provided enough information to allow him to defend his client.

The attorney for a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas says he is back in the hospital after being held at a detention center with a bullet still lodged in his back.

Netflix’s new “A Different World” sequel arrives with high expectations.

Local authorities say a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, where anti-ICE protesters gathered for hours.

Converse has removed a social media ad after backlash over an image critics said evoked racist symbols.

San Francisco's annual King of the Streets event is celebrating lowriding.

Several of the nation’s largest left-leaning voter engagement and racial justice organizations are facing steep funding shortfalls and staffing cutbacks.

The stabbing of a Sikh truck driver at a Wyoming rest area has the U.S. Sikh community newly on edge.

President Donald Trump is using a controversial campaign ad from 1988 to criticize Democrats on crime.

A federal judge has blocked immigration officers from making warrantless arrests in Southern California unless they determine the person is likely to escape.

The man who sprayed vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar during a Minneapolis town hall has been sentenced to 14 months in prison.

Seven noncitizens in Texas have been charged with illegally voting in federal elections or falsely claiming U.S. citizenship, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.

Hundreds of people gathered at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, to mark the 63rd anniversary of the 1963 bombing.

The Congressional Black Caucus Institute is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to engage lower-propensity voters in key districts before the midterm elections.

Detainees at a now-closed immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades — known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — were held for up to two hours in small metal enclosures used as “calming areas.”.