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Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres is critical of police shootings of black men

Ellen DeGeneres says she's "furious" that so many black men have been shot by police and "nothing seems to change." Speaking ...

Legislative hearing on aid-in-dying bill attracts big crowds

A legislative hearing on a proposal in New York that would allow people with a terminal illness to request life-ending ...

New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims

Visitors to the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice first glimpse them, eerily, in the distance: Brown rectangular ...

Whistleblower: School used software to get more state money

Education regulators are reviewing a whistleblower's claim that Ohio's then-largest online charter school intentionally ...

Dream job: Harley-Davidson paid interns get a motorcycle too

Harley-Davidson is offering free motorcycles for those who join its summer internship program. Eight college students or ...

Attacks on South Sudan health facilities, workers increasing

Everyone and everything is a target in South Sudan's civil war, as attacks against health facilities and aid workers ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Clinton: Free press is under 'open assault' in Trump era

Hillary Clinton excoriated President Donald Trump for his treatment of the media, saying in remarks on Sunday that press ...

AP-NORC Poll: Amid strikes, Americans back teacher raises

Americans overwhelmingly believe teachers don't make enough money, and half say they'd support paying higher taxes to give ...

Visiting the Tunisian desert where 'Star Wars' was filmed

There's a reason the original "Star Wars" movie was filmed here in the deserts of southern Tunisia. This stark, remote ...

Bill O'Reilly

Next O'Reilly book coming in September

Bill O'Reilly's next "Killing" book will be set during World War II. "Killing the SS" is scheduled to come out September 18, ...

18 Syracuse students out of classes after offensive videos

Eighteen Syracuse University students face disciplinary charges after videos emerged showing fraternity members using racial ...

Elaine Wynn

Elaine Wynn asks shareholders to oust board member

The ex-wife of Steve Wynn, who is also the biggest shareholder and co-founder of Wynn Resorts, is seeking the removal one of ...

US raises Nicaragua threat level, pulls diplomats' families

The United States is shutting down routine operations at its embassy in Nicaragua and pulling out some if its employees amid ...

Bill Cosby

Cosby defense team lobs attacks in court of public opinion

Jurors weren't allowed to hear testimony that Bill Cosby's chief accuser was once hooked on hallucinogenic mushrooms or had ...

Josephine Bolling McCall

New lynching memorial offers chance to remember, heal

Elmore Bolling defied the odds against black men and built several successful businesses during the harsh era of Jim Crow ...

HRW: 'Men only' job ads show ongoing discrimination in China

One job ad for Chinese high-speed train conductors called for candidates who were "fashionable and beautiful." Another ad ...

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Monument Memorializes 4,400 Lynching Victims

The lynchings that killed thousands of people and terrorized generations of blacks in the U.S. are solemnly commemorated in ...

Ronny Jackson

It's time for Trump's doctor to be examined, for VA chief

Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson was tending to grievously injured military personnel in Iraq when he was summoned to Washington to ...

4 dead in Waffle House shooting in Tennessee; suspect sought

A nearly naked gunman wearing only a green jacket and brandishing an assault rifle stormed a Waffle House restaurant in ...

The Latest: Sheriff: Suspect's firearms card was revoked

The Latest on shooting at Tennessee restaurant that left four dead (all times local): 4:15 p.m. A sheriff in Illinois says ...