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America’s oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS), […]
Black women serving in Senate together reflect on historic first and making an impact PBS NewsHour Source link
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – The day before Christmas Eve, we all expect long lines at every store in the Omaha metro as people get their last-minute holiday shopping done. But the line for the Black Men United Food Pantry starts to form while most of us are still asleep. It runs from 30th and Sahler […]
This undated file photo shows Fabio Ochoa Vasquez. AP/AP hide caption toggle caption AP/AP MIAMI — One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a U.S. prison and is expected to be deported back home. Records from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons show Fabio […]
MIAMI (AP) — One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a U.S. prison and is expected to be deported back home. Records from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons show Fabio Ochoa Vásquez was released Tuesday after completing 25 years of a 30-year prison […]
The US will have two Black women serving as senators for the first time in US history, with the election of Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland. Blunt Rochester, a congresswoman from Delaware, will be the first woman and Black senator to represent the state . . .
The 2024 election and a court-ordered redistricting led to this result: next year, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House members serving together, for the first time in history. Shomari Figures, elected Tuesday night to represent the 2nd Congressional District, will join U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Bimingham, who has served in the U.S. House of […]
Representation Matters DELMARVA – History was made on Delmarva this election cycle, and when it comes to the U.S. Senate, it it’ll will be a bit more diverse. In the 235-year history of the Senate there has not been more than one Black woman at a time representing the country, and next year, there […]
CHARLOTTE — Sources tell Channel 9 three law enforcement officers, including one U.S. Marshal, were killed Monday while serving a warrant in east Charlotte. At least one suspect was found dead at the scene, police confirmed. Police haven’t yet confirmed the officers’ deaths, but said “numerous” law enforcement officers were shot. Around 2:15 p.m., CMPD […]
Officers working with a U.S. Marshalls task force were shot Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina, including a U.S. deputy marshal, according to two law enforcement officials. The deputy marshal was in surgery Monday afternoon, and three local officers were shot while serving a warrant, one official told NBC News. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Monday afternoon […]