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New research points to an economic factor that might be overlooked when considering why drug-related deaths among Black Americans increased significantly after 2010 in U.S. regions reporting heightened fentanyl activity: job losses that followed the Great Recession. Researchers analyzed data on employment, demographics, drug seizures and causes of death for over 200 counties in the […]
For parents, having a child enrolled at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School has always been a matter of pride. “My two girls go here, it’s the best high school in Chicago,” parent Julie Chen told NBC Chicago as she dropped off one of her daughters at the River North campus. According to
CHICAGO (AP) — The closure of Wadsworth Elementary School in 2013 was a blow to residents of the majority-Black neighborhood it served, symbolizing a city indifferent to their interests. So when the city reopened Wadsworth last year to shelter hundreds of migrants, without seeking community input, it added insult to injury. Across Chicago, Black residents […]
A record 59 percent of surveyed Americans believe abortion should be legal, according to a new Fox News poll published Wednesday, as the Supreme Court argued over whether abortion pills should be outlawed, and GOP politicians consider support for a national abortion ban. Support for abortion rights has increased by double digits since early 2022, […]
The adaptation of the mobile game Among Us has added some additional voices to its roster. We found out earlier this month that Elijah Wood, Randall Park, Yvette Nicole Brown, and Ashley Johnson were voicing various guys on a starship where a shapeshifting alien has taken root. And today, we’ve got three more names to […]
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter HealthDay THURSDAY, March 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Suicidal thoughts and contemplation of death haunt the minds of many rural Black men in the United States, a new study reports. One in three rural Black men said they had such dark thoughts within the past two weeks, University of Georgia […]
By George Wright & Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News 27 March 2024, 09:07 GMT Updated 18 minutes ago Image caption, Miguel Luna is one of the six men presumed dead, according to non-profit organization Casa Six people, including a father of three originally from El Salvador, are now presumed dead after a container ship hit […]
Two members of the New York State National Guard were identified as victims in a military helicopter crash that killed three people in Texas on Friday near the U.S.-Mexico border. John M. Grassia III, a New York State trooper, and Casey Frankoski, a National Guard helicopter pilot, were killed near La Grulla, Texas, when the […]
United States President Joe Biden has been campaigning in South Carolina like his political life depends on it. Longtime analysts say it might. Despite being all but assured of winning the state’s Democratic primary on February 3, Biden has made South Carolina a focal point of his early reelection efforts, in an attempt to recapture […]