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Monthly Archives: June, 2023

Biden is ready to fete India’s leader, looking past Modi’s human rights record and ties to Russia

WASHINGTON (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is, on many counts, a curious choice for President Joe Biden to honor with a state visit. Since Russian President Vladimir...

Charitable giving in 2022 drops for only the third time in 40 years: Giving USA report

NEW YORK (AP) — Charitable giving in the United States declined in 2022 -- only the third time in four decades that donations did...

Lawyer Eastman faces a disciplinary hearing over a plot to keep Trump in power after his 2020 loss

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An effort to disbar conservative attorney John Eastman, who devised ways to keep President Donald Trump in the White House after his...

Stock market today: Wall Street slips after a 5-week rally

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping in Wall Street’s first trading after a five-week rally carried it to its highest level since the...

Multiple tornadoes leave 1 dead and nearly 2 dozen injured in Mississippi

LOUIN, Miss. (AP) — Multiple tornadoes swept through Mississippi overnight, killing one and injuring nearly two dozen, officials said Monday. State emergency workers were still...

Heat wave triggers big storms, power outages in US Southeast, raises wildfire concerns in Southwest

Forecasters warned people celebrating Father's Day outdoors to take precautions as triple-digit temperatures prompted heat advisories across much of the southern U.S., triggered thunderstorms that knocked...

Coahoma County job fair, career expo set for Tuesday

By Josh Troy  Clarksdale Advocate  Approximately 20 employers will be at Coahoma County's Job Fair & Career Expo from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday...

Family suing San Diego cemetery after remains of Juneteenth trailblazer missing from burial plot

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Relatives of a late Black businessman who helped popularize Juneteenth in San Diego are suing a cemetery after his remains...

More than 1 million dropped from Medicaid as states start post-pandemic purge of rolls

More than 1 million people have been dropped from Medicaid in the past couple months as some states moved swiftly to halt health care...

What if things could turn out differently? How the multiverse got into our heads and didn’t let go

“Let’s do things differently this time.” Those are the first words you hear at the beginning of this month’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” an otherworldly meditation on multiple realities...

The woman who founded Father’s Day was a renegade, great-granddaughter says

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You could call her the mother of Father’s Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910...

Americans mark Juneteenth with parties, events and quiet reflection on the end of slavery

Detroit (AP) — Americans across the country this weekend celebrated Juneteenth, marking the relatively new national holiday with cookouts, parades and other gatherings as they commemorated...

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