Week In Review

By Stan Choe ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK — Tens of millions of older Americans are getting the biggest raise of their lifetimes. The U.S. government announced Thursday that Social Security beneficiaries will see an 8.7% increase in monthly payments this upcoming year, the largest increase in four decades. It’s all part of an annual ritual…

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ABOVE PHOTO: FILE – An enlarged photo of Daniel Prude, who died following a police encounter, is held by his nephew Armin, left, and his uncle Joe Prude right, in Rochester, N.Y. Newly released grand jury transcripts shed more light on why police officers who restrained Daniel Prude avoided criminal charges in his death, but…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Evan Milligan, right, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, in Montgomery, Ala. Milligan is among voters and advocacy groups who filed a lawsuit challenging the redistricting that splits Montgomery between two congressional districts. The lawsuit will go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Tony Rivera carries items recovered from his family’s waterlogged car through receding flood waters still filling a street in the Harlem Heights neighborhood, three days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) By Rebecca Santana ASSOCIATED PRESS  HARLEM HEIGHTS, Fla. — The Gladiolus…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the 2022 Phoenix Awards Dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) By Afea Tucker The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference’s Phoenix Awards Dinner took place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C….

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ABOVE PHOTO: Colorado state Rep. Leslie Herod (D-Denver}, left, consoles Sheneen McClain during a rally and march over the death of McClain’s 23-year-old son Elijah, Saturday, June 27, 2020, outside the police department in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) By Colleen Slevin ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER  — A Black man died after a police encounter…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Zuram Rodriguez surveys the damage around her mobile home in Davie, Fla., early Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified off Florida’s southwest coast Wednesday morning, gaining top winds of 155 mph (250 kph), just shy of the most dangerous Category 5 status. (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) By Curt Anderson…

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ABOVE PHOTO: New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman) By Michael R. Sisak And Larry Neumeister ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK — New York’s attorney general sued former President Donald Trump and his company for fraud on Wednesday, alleging they padded his…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A woman, who is part of a group of immigrants that had just arrived, holds a child as they are fed outside St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Wednesday Sept. 14, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, escalating a tactic…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Sarah Collins Rudolph and her husband, George Rudolph, talk in their home on Nov. 16, 2016, in Birmingham, Ala. Rudolph lost an eye and still has slivers of glass inside her body from the racist bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside a church 59 years ago Thursday. She’s…

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