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Left to Right: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris (Photo: NNPA) 

A “Weekend of Action” mobilization blitz with over 1,500 events held across crucial battleground states marked the surge in momentum.

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The Supreme Court has extended the delay in the Washington criminal case against ex-President Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss. The court ruled former presidents have some immunity from prosecution. Justice Sonia Sotomayor says the court’s decision makes a mockery of the principle no man is above the law.

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British and American voters are going to the polls the same year for the first time in more than three decades. Voters in both places say they distrust the candidates and their governments. They don't like the personal attacks that define the rematch between U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump and in the UK the mood is for change after 14 years under the Conservatives

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The Supreme Court has upended a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment, public health, workplace safety and consumer protections. Opponents of the decision argued it gave power that should be wielded by judges to government experts.

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The Supreme Court (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) 

The case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on homelessness, an issue affecting a rising number of people in the U.S. The high court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines to strike down a ruling that found outdoor sleeping bans amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

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CNN, which declined to provide Black-owned media with any of the more than 800 credentials it passed out, enabled a boatload of misinformation and flat-out lies to pass through their airwaves like bad wind.

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The rejection has ignited a firestorm of criticism, highlighting the broader issue of racial inequity in media representation. Atlanta, a city with a rich history of Black culture and leadership, finds its Black-owned media sidelined at a critical political event.

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State Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) 

Voters passed the law in 1950. Opponents say its aim was to keep people of color out of white neighborhoods. Three other attempts to either repeal or change the law have failed in the decades since it passed.

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A group of formerly enslaved people gather on a South Carolina plantation during the Union occupation in 1862. Corbis/ Getty Images 

The study looked at federal compensation to farmers, fishermen, coal miners, radiation victims and 70 other groups

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Rev. Dr. Kevin R. Johnson (Karim Muhammad/Brian Communications) 

New York City’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church has elected its new senior pastor, likely bringing an end to a national search to replace the late Rev. Calvin O. Butts. He had served the church for a half-century before his death in 2022.

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