The end of the Vietnam War was also a turning point for protest songs
NEW YORK (AP) — Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, Judy Collins can never forget one in Washington, D.C., where she stood before thousands and sang Bob Dylan’s
Trump’s attack on diversity takes center stage as Boston remembers 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK
BOSTON (AP) — As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining some 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the city’s segregated school system and the
Big Tech’s soaring energy demands are making coal-fired power plant sites attractive
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Coal-fired power plants, long an increasingly money-losing proposition in the U.S., are becoming more valuable now that the suddenly strong demand for electricity to run Big Tech’s cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications
Two-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported ‘with no meaningful process’
By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen “with no meaningful process,” a federal judge said on Friday, as the child’s father sought to have her returned to
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre dies by suicide, her family says
By Brad Brooks and Samuel McKeith (Reuters) -Virginia Giuffre, one of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, has committed suicide, her family said on Friday. Giuffre, 41, died on Friday in Western Australia state,
More police videos show early days of Hackman investigation
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities released more videos Friday related to their investigation of the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, including images of agents returning to the couple’s Santa Fe home days
Virginia GOP candidate for lieutenant governor says he won’t exit race despite governor’s push
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican John Reid said Friday he will continue his campaign to be Virginia’s lieutenant governor and denied he had anything to do with a social media account containing sexually explicit photos that had
Some see Trump weaponizing government in targeting of judge and Democratic fundraising site
On Thursday, President Donald Trump directed his Department of Justice to investigate ActBlue, the Democratic Party-aligned fundraising site that has fueled so many successful challenges against his own party. The next day, amid a long-running feud with
Trump administration to investigate New York’s funding threat over Long Island tribal school mascot
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday it plans to investigate whether New York education officials are being discriminatory by threatening to withhold funding if a Long Island school district doesn’t stop using
The US oversees a peace pledge for east Congo, hoping to ease its access to critical minerals
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday oversaw the signing by Congo and Rwanda of a pledge to work toward a peace deal that would ease U.S. access to critical minerals in resource-rich eastern
