Week In Review

Shutterstock By Cora Lewis and Linley Sanders ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The vast majority of U.S. adults are at least somewhat stressed about the cost of groceries, a new poll finds, as prices continue to rise and concerns about the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs remain widespread. About half of all Americans say…

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William McNeil Jr., center, looks on during a news conference Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty) By Jeff Martin ASSOCIATED PRESS A video that captured the brutal arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers in Florida has led to an investigation and calls for motorists…

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FILE – A mural by artist Tene Smith is seen near the entrance of Chicago Women in Trades, a nonprofit dedicated to training and retaining women in the skilled construction trades is photographed April 1, 2025, at the facility in Chicago. (AP Photo/Claire Savage, File) By Terry Tang and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON —…

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In this image taken from video, participants hold a discussion in a breakout session during a training hosted by Undivided at Central Christian Church in Springfield, Ohio, aimed at teaching community and church leaders how to support and shelter immigrants facing deportation, Tuesday, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Obed Lamy) By Obed Lamy and Julie Carr…

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FILE – President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Martin Luther King Jr., after presenting a pen to the civil rights leader after Johnson signed the voting rights bill at the Capitol in Washington, Aug. 6, 1965. At center is Rep. Ray Madden, D-Ind. Joel Finkelstein was an accidental witness to one of the seminal…

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In this Dec. 6, 2019 file photo, Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is hugged as House Democrats gathered before passing the Voting Rights Advancement Act to eliminate potential state and local voter suppression laws, at the Capitol in Washington. At right is Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., who introduced the bill and who represents…

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Adilah Relocation Services CEO and founder Adilah Muhammad, right, and administrative assistant Sharifa Martin inspect an apartment for a client relocating from the U.S. to Kenya, in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, May 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku) By Evelyne and Desmond Tiro ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenneth Harris spent most of his days in Atlanta…

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the Budget address on Feb. 14, 2023, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. Maine is close to becoming one of few states in the country to provide a retirement savings program to workers who don’t have access to one through their job. Mills signed a bill…

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A sign at west Louisiana U.S. Army base displays the base’s new name in Vernon Parish, La., June 13, 2023. (Crystal Stevenson/The American Press via AP, File) By Fernanda Figueroa ASSOCIATED PRESS In 2023, amid a national reckoning on issues of race in America, seven Army bases’ names were changed because they honored Confederate leaders….

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New York Mayor Eric Adams, center, speaks during a news conference at New York Presbyterian Weil Cornell Medical Center where a police officer was brought after being shot at a Manhattan office building, Monday, July 28, 2025, in New York.(AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis) By Philip Marcelo and Eric Tucker ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — New York…

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