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September 14, 2020

2020 Watch: How much more damage can Woodward do?

Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: Days to general election: ...

September 14, 2020

Virus America, six months in: Disarray, dismay, disconnect

For years, Erin Whitehead has been a committed fan of the crisis-fueled medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy.” She has watched its ...

September 14, 2020

Neymar among 5 stoppage-time red cards, Marseille beats PSG

Neymar was among five players sent off in stoppage time Sunday as Marseille beat bitter rival Paris Saint-Germain for the ...

September 13, 2020

US election spotlight mostly bypasses mainline Protestants

The images were vivid: President Donald Trump brandishing a Bible outside an Episcopal church in Washington that had been ...

September 13, 2020

Black scientists call out racism in the field and counter it

University of Washington ecologist Christopher Schell is studying how coronavirus shutdowns have affected wildlife in Seattle ...

September 13, 2020

Analysis: Naomi Osaka is poised to lead tennis on, off court

Naomi Osaka is at the top of tennis right now, poised to lead the way on the court -- and off it -- for years to come.

September 12, 2020

Italy shaken by brutal beating death of young Black man

Hundreds of people in Italy joined a funeral procession Saturday for a young Black man whose brutal beating death has shaken ...

September 11, 2020

Schools that are mostly Black, Latino favor starting online

Missi Magness wanted her children back in school. The parent of a first-grader and a sixth-grader who attend schools on ...

September 11, 2020

Chiefs nix headdresses, war paint to start NFL season

The roughly 17,000 fans of the Kansas City Chiefs who filed into Arrowhead Stadium for a masked and socially distanced start ...

September 11, 2020

Judges: Trump can't exclude people from district drawings

Saying the president had exceeded his authority, a panel of three federal judges on Thursday blocked an order from President ...

September 10, 2020

Black Lives Matter will no longer feature on EPL jerseys

Premier League jerseys will no longer feature a Black Lives Matter badge, which has been replaced by the competition's own ...

September 10, 2020

Black in Berlin: Group seeks more diversity in tech industry

The beginning of 2019 is when Kave Bulambo really started to wonder: Where are all the Black software engineers in Berlin? ...

September 10, 2020

Milan Fashion Week to include Black Lives Matter event

The Italian fashion council’s only Black designer has hailed as a ‘’breakthrough’’ the inclusion of a Black Lives Matter ...

September 10, 2020

Official claims pressure to alter Homeland Security intel

A Department of Homeland Security official said in a whistleblower complaint that he was pressured by more senior officials ...

September 09, 2020

Mandela's lawyer, anti-apartheid activist George Bizos dies

Anti-apartheid campaigner and Nelson Mandela's personal lawyer George Bizos has died at 92, his family said Wednesday.

September 09, 2020

McBride, Wilkerson among nominees for Kirkus Prize

Elena Ferrante, James McBride and Isabel Wilkerson are among the nominees for the Kirkus Prize, a $50,000 honor for the best ...

September 09, 2020

South Africa's Archbishop Tutu and wife unhurt by housefire

South African anti-apartheid veteran and Nobel laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah have escaped ...

September 09, 2020

Trump readying potential Supreme Court nominee list

President Donald Trump is preparing to again release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees, one that voters can compare ...

September 09, 2020

Now that NFL supports Colin Kaepernick's fight, what's next?

Four years later, the NFL admitted it was wrong and said it now supports Colin Kaepernick in his fight against racial ...

September 08, 2020

Rapper Genesis Be's long battle versus the Confederate flag

The path that brought rapper and activist Genesis Be to a New York City stage, her body draped in a Confederate flag and a ...