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U.S. Marine veteran Lee Newby of Warren was honored by Mayor James Fouts last month to commemorate his 100th birthday. (PHOTO CITY OF WARREN) When Lee Newby was drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942, he did not think of himself as a champion for civil rights. Newby, a Warren resident who celebrated his […]
President Joe Biden was intervening personally Sunday to try and break the US debt ceiling deadlock with a call to the top Republican leader before the clock ticks down on a feared national default. The White House said that Biden, winding up a three-day G7 meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, would call Speaker Kevin McCarthy as […]
A recent WordPress security update featuring multiple security fixes is also causing some sites to stop functioning, causing one developer to exclaim, “This is chaos!!” The update removed a key functionality that caused numerous plugins to stop working on site that use the WordPress blocks system. Affected plugins ranged from forms to sliders to breadcrumbs. […]
Author Nicole Cuffy talks about her debut novel, “Dances.” JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Nicole Cuffy loves to dance and the art of ballet. She also loves a nightly bath, where sometimes ideas come to her, like in May of 2015. NICOLE CUFFY: I just had this craving to immerse myself in the world of dance. SUMMERS: […]
WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and top Republicans and Democrats from Congress are set to sit down this week to try to resolve a three-month standoff over the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt ceiling and avoid a crippling default before the end of May.
The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force is working with the Biloxi Police Department and offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest of a man wanted in an April 16 incident in which five people, including a Biloxi police officer, were shot. Dontavis Magee was identified as […]
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is getting dragged into the escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing as she tries to disentangle Italy from its close relationship with China. Meloni, the right-wing leader who came to power less than a year ago, is leaning toward pulling out of an agreement to join China’s controversial Belt and Road […]
Spending their spring break in New York City proved to be the ultimate field trip for 25 Emory College and Oxford College students participating in the Pathways Center’s inaugural Career Trek to New York City. Career Treks are designed to leverage Emory’s expansive network of alumni and expose undergraduate students to workplaces and career trajectories […]
During Howard University’s Alternative Spring Break, student groups traveled around the nation and the world to provide services to underserved populations. From collecting food resources to combat food insecurity in Texas, to reading with Minnesota’s students to increase reading levels in Black youth, the week-long trip exudes what lies at the heart of Howard University: […]
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced it aims to overhaul and modernize the organ transplant system in the U.S. with a plan that includes breaking up the monopoly power that has run the system for decades. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency under the Department of Health and Human Services released a […]