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Week In Review

‘Prophet of Doom’ pleads guilty in Brooklyn subway attack

January 6, 2023

ABOVE PHOTO: New York City police and law enforcement officials lead subway shooting suspect Frank James, center, away from a police station in New York on April 13, 2022. Prosecutors plan to seek a decades-long prison sentence for James, who is expected to plead guilty this week to opening fire in a subway car and…

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$600M designated for struggling water system in Mississippi

January 1, 2023

ABOVE PHOTO: A trickle of water comes out of the faucet at Mary Gaines’ Golden Keys Senior Living apartment in Jackson, Miss., Sept. 1, 2022. The federal government will put $600 million toward repairing the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital city…a project that the mayor has said could cost billions of dollars. Funding for…

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Supreme Court asked to bar punishment for acquitted conduct

January 1, 2023

ABOVE PHOTO: Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stands as she and members of the Supreme Court pose for a new group portrait following her addition, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) By Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON (AP) — A jury convicted Dayonta McClinton of robbing…

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Garland moves to end disparities in crack cocaine sentencing

December 23, 2022

ABOVE PHOTO: Musician Youtha Anthony Fowler, known as “DJ Nabs,” looks at an old newspaper clipping, top, about his lifelong best friend, Alton Lucas, in his home studio outside of Raleigh, N.C., on Saturday, June 26, 2021. At the height of the war on drugs, Lucas went to jail for a series of robberies he…

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Loved or hated, Fauci’s parting advice: Stick to the science

December 23, 2022

ABOVE PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attends the White House press briefing to speak about the coronavirus on Tuesday, November 22, 2022. Dr. Ashish Jha, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, also spoke. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) By Lauran Neergaard ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON —…

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Zelenskyy thanks every American,  sees turning point

December 23, 2022

Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, react as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presents lawmakers with a Ukrainian flag autographed by front-line troops in Bakhmut, in Ukraine’s contested Donetsk province, as he addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)…

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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022

December 23, 2022

By Bernard McGhee associated press Photos: Shutterstock, Associated Press One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II. In her 70 years on the throne, she helped modernize the monarchy across decades of enormous social change, royal marriages and births, and family scandals. For…

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Democrat Bass takes charge as LA mayor amid homeless crisis

December 16, 2022

ABOVE PHOTO: New Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass speaks during her inaugural address Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) By Michael R. Blood and Chrisopher Weber ASSOCIATED PRESS  LOS ANGELES — Karen Ruth Bass, a former physician assistant who shattered glass ceilings with her rise to a leadership post in the California legislature and…

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A breast cancer survivor on changing odds for Black women

December 16, 2022

ABOVE PHOTO: This undated photo provided by Touch, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance shows CEO and co-founder of Touch Ricki Fairley, a 11-year late-stage breast cancer survivor and advocate. Fairley is fighting hard to improve the chances for Black women to overcome breast cancer and to address the racial disparities in treatment. (Touch, The Black…

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Supreme Court weighs ‘most important case’ on democracy

December 9, 2022

Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 16, 2022. The court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case from North Carolina, where Republican efforts to draw congressional districts heavily in their favor were blocked by a Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court because…

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