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By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York 7 hours ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: Death of baby decapitated during delivery ruled a homicide The death of baby who was decapitated during delivery has been ruled a homicide by a medical examiner’s office in the […]
‘American Queen’ author Vanessa Miller In the late 1800s, a group of formerly enslaved people embarked on a year-long journey from the Deep South to the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, where they built a community called the Kingdom of the Happy Land. The group was led by Reverend William Montgomery and his wife, Louella—the […]
Rakesh Kamal, his daughter and wife were found dead in their mansion. New York: The deaths of a wealthy Indian-origin couple and their daughter in the US state of Massachusetts last week have been ruled a murder-suicide by medical authorities after autopsy. Rakesh Kamal . . .
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Funeral services were held Oct. 25 for longtime U.S. District Judge Neal Brooks Biggers Jr. of Mississippi, who issued significant rulings about prayer in public schools and funding of historically Black universities. Biggers died Oct. 15 at his home in Oxford. He was 88. Services were being held in Corinth, according […]
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Funeral services were being held Wednesday for longtime U.S. District Judge Neal Brooks Biggers Jr. of Mississippi, who issued significant rulings about prayer in public schools and funding of historically Black universities. Biggers died Oct. 15 at his home in Oxford. He was 88. Services were being held in Corinth, according […]
The Supreme Court this week allowed Louisiana to redraw its congressional districts to fairly represent Black voters. This action comes on the heels of the court’s decision earlier this month in Allen v. Milligan, in which one of us was a key plaintiff, finding that Alabama’s new congressional maps dilute the power of Black voters […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal judges ordered South Carolina lawmakers to draw new congressional maps, ruling Friday that the U.S. House district lines of a seat flipped by Democrats four years ago were intentionally redrawn to split Black neighborhoods to dilute their voting power. The state used the maps in this past November’s midterm elections […]
A voter places a ballot in an election voting drop box in Mesa, Ariz., on Friday. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption toggle caption Ross D. Franklin/AP A voter places a ballot in an election voting drop box in Mesa, Ariz., on Friday. Ross D. Franklin/AP PHOENIX — A federal judge Friday refused to bar a […]
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) – The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden said it would appeal the decision of a Louisiana judge that upended its plans to end a COVID-era health order blocking most asylum seekers and other migrants at the border with Mexico. Despite the setback, the administration is moving ahead with other changes […]
Now, a century later, Alfarena McGinty, the chief deputy coroner of Marion County, has ruled Tompkins’ death as a lynching, not a suicide, after reviewing his case. Dr. Paul Robinson, Marion County coroner in 1922, saw Tompkins’ body soon after police reported it. “There could be no question that the man had been murdered and […]