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Juneteenth, recalling end of slavery, is marked across US

By ED WHITE - Associated Press, 30 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 2:57 PM
Parades, picnics and lessons in history were offered Saturday to commemorate Juneteenth in the U.S., a day that carried even more significance after Congress and President Joe Biden created a federal holiday to observe the end of slavery.
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Editor of paper that endured newsroom shooting says goodbye

By The Associated Press, 30 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 2:05 PM
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The editor of the Capital Gazette, which won a special Pulitzer Prize citation for its coverage and courage in the face of a massacre in its newsroom, is leaving the Maryland newspaper.
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Bidens' older dog, Champ, has died; German shepherd was 13

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press, 36 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 11:53 AM
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Saturday that Champ, the older of the family’s two dogs, had died “peacefully at home.” The German shepherd was 13.
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Queen beams as she returns to Ascot after COVID-19 hiatus

By The Associated Press, 29 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 11:19 AM
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II was smiling broadly as she attended the final day of the Ascot races on Saturday, where environmental protesters urged the monarch to press politicians to act faster against climate change.
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Putin names Lavrov, Shoigu to United Russia elections list

By The Associated Press, 40 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 9:55 AM
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said his foreign minister and his defense minister will head the candidates’ list for the dominant United Russia party in September’s parliamentary election.
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Warsaw gay pride parade back after backlash, pandemic

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press, 22 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 2:40 AM
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The largest gay pride parade in central Europe took place again in Warsaw on Saturday for the first time in two years after a pandemic-induced break — and amid a backlash in Poland and Hungary against LGBT rights.
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Madison couple gives Ole Miss $10M, arena named after them

By The Associated Press, 22 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 10:07 AM
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi couple is giving $10 million to the University of Mississippi's athletics foundation, and the school’s basketball and event arena has been named for them.
The arena, which opened in January 2016, is now called “The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss.”
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Memphis erases Confederate general from its public spaces

By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press, 22 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 8:48 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s polarizing presence has hung over Memphis since he moved here in 1852 — his legacy cemented by a giant statue that loomed over all who passed his gravesite in a popular park.
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'Protected them to death': Elder-care COVID rules under fire

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press, 22 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 9:26 AM
Barbara and Christine Colucci long to remove their masks and kiss their 102-year-old mother, who has dementia and is in a nursing home in Rochester, New York. They would love to have more than two people in her room at a time so that relatives can be there too.
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Amid reform movement, some GOP states give police more power

By FARNOUSH AMIRI - Report for America/Associated Press, 22 Reads
Sat, 06/19/2021 - 9:09 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After a year of protests over police brutality, some Republican-controlled states have ignored or blocked police-reform proposals, moving instead in the other direction by granting greater powers to officers, making it harder to discipline them and expanding their authority to crack down on demonstrations.
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