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(Associated Press) One hundred people — including two police officers — were shot in Chicago over the long Fourth of July weekend, including 18 homicides, the city's police department said Tuesday. Among those injured were at least a dozen children. None of them had died as of Tuesday morning, but at least...

(Headline USA) Officials in the city of Tucson plan to ignore Arizona's new “Second Amendment sanctuary” law that bars state and local governments from enforcing certain federal gun regulations, possibly setting up a court fight as a growing number of cities and counties in the United States declare themselves similar...

(Headline USA) Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she will not teach at the journalism school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill following an extended fight over tenure there, and instead will take a tenured position at Howard University. UNC initially offered her a job without tenure after a board member...

(Headline USA) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO on Monday, handing over the reins as the company uses its monopoly power to crush locally owned businesses during the coronavirus mania. Andy Jassy, who ran Amazon's cloud-computing business, replaced Bezos, a change the company announced in February. Bezos, Amazon's biggest...

(Ted O'Neil , The Center Square) The number of students attending public schools during the 2020-2021 academic year fell by roughly 3% compared with the previous year. The data come from the National Center for Education Statistics, a federal agency that analyzes education figures. While the remote-education model that many schools...

(Headline USA) The drastic about-face from mainstream media in coverage of the US border crisis was immediately clear in their refusal to cover the atrocious conditions in migrant detention centers, newly reopened and overcrowded under President Joe Biden. These cages are not only ignored with a casual disinterest, however. The...

(Associated Press) Rescuers were given the all-clear to resume work looking for victims at a collapsed South Florida condo building after demolition crews set off a string of explosives that brought down the last of the building in a plume of dust. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told the...

(Associated Press) Demolition specialists bored holes for explosives Sunday as they prepared to bring down the precarious but still-standing portion of a collapsed South Florida condo building. The work has suspended the search-and-rescue mission, but officials said it should eventually open up new areas for rescue teams to explore. The...

(Associated Press) The Boy Scouts of America have reached an $850 million agreement with attorneys representing some 60,000 victims of child sex abuse in what could prove to be a pivotal moment in the organization’s bankruptcy case. The agreement filed in court by BSA attorneys late Thursday would mark one of...

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up the case of a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding, leaving in place a decision that she broke state anti-discrimination laws. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have agreed to hear...

(Headline USA) California on Thursday scheduled a Sept. 14 recall election that could drive Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom from office, the result of a political uprising largely driven by angst over state coronavirus orders that shuttered schools and businesses and upended life for millions of Californians. Meanwhile, conservative talk show host...

(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday ruled in favor of a eight Minneapolis activists who sued the city council and mayor over funding the police force. The order by Hennepin County District Judge Jamie L. Anderson requires that the city have at least 730 sworn officers on the payroll by the...