Week In Review

An emotional Karmelo Anthony supporter is consoled by another outside the Collin County courthouse after the verdict was reached in the trial Tuesday, June 9, 2026, in McKinney, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) By Jamie Stengle ASSOCIATED PRESS MCKINNEY, Texas — A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team during…

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Makeda Walker-Deen, a junior at Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School, stands for a photo in Los Angeles, Thursday, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) By Annie Ma ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — For generations, the federal government enforced civil rights laws with an eye toward remedying historic, systemic discrimination against Black people and other…

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An image of Cyrus Carmack-Belton is displayed in court during closing arguments in the murder trial against his shooter, Chikei Rick Chow, a convenience store owner accused in the 2023 fatal shooting of the 14-year-old, Monday, June 1, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco) ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA, S.C — A South Carolina jury on…

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Fans celebrate during the announcement of the United States men’s national soccer team roster, Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in New York, ahead of the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez) ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — FIFA is under fresh scrutiny for sky-high World Cup ticket prices and sales tactics that fans say…

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French lawmaker Max Mathiasin of the French Caribbean island Guadeloupe, poses at the entrance of the National Assembly in Paris, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, before lawmakers examine a bill to formally repeal the Code Noir, or Black Code, the 17th-century royal edict that governed slavery in French colonies and treated enslaved people as property. (AP…

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Clarence B. Jones, center, stands with Martin Luther King III, left, and Ambassador Andrew Young before Jones was presented with the American Jewish Congress “Isaiah Award,” Wednesday, March 1, 2006, in New York. A former counsel and speechwriter to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the first black to be made partner in a Wall…

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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., asks a question of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, not shown, during the committee’s hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) By Steven Sloan associated press WASHINGTON — Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic congressman and leading liberal who brought…

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Pope Leo XIV is welcomed by Rector Mohamed Mamoun Al Qasimi upon his arrival at the Great Mosque in Algiers, Monday, April 13, 2026, on the first day of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) ASSOCIATED PRESS Pope Leo XIV’s 11-day tour of four African nations has given the usually reserved pontiff…

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Family members of fallen civil rights activists view the Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Poverty Law Center during a private family viewing, Nov. 5, 1989, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File) By Collin Binkley and Alanna Durkin Richer and Rebecca Boone ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the…

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A woman holds a lit candle during a prayer vigil for the victims of a mass shooting earlier in the day, Sunday, April 19, 2026, in Shreveport, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) By Heather Hollingsworth ASSOCIATED PRESS Teacher Angela Hall always starts the day gathering her preschool students in a circle in their Shreveport, Louisiana, classroom….

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