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By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes in women's sports, prompting the revision of its...

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who rose from borrowing money to...

A deadly outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states, federal health officials...

The United States Military Academy at West Point (USMA) made history with its first Hindu Baccalaureate service. For the first time in its 222-year history,...

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Working furiously to take control of a House in disarray, allies of Speaker Kevin...

By STEVE PEOPLES and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have dominated the Republican presidential nomination fight for much of...

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Citing errors by police, a Mississippi judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the case of two white...

Florida Board of Education approved controversial new standards for teaching Black history in the state’s public schools. The move has already received criticism from the president...

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — The Marion County Sheriff's Office says a Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbor last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a 2½-year feud was arrested Tuesday. Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, who is white, was arrested on charges of manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery and two counts of assault in the death of Ajike Owens, a Black mother of four. Authorities came under pressure Tuesday to arrest and charge the white woman who fired through her front her door and killed a Black neighbor in a case that has put Florida's divisive stand your ground law back into the spotlight.