Thursday September 19th, 2024 6:05PM

AP National News

The drug war devastated Black and other minority communities. Is marijuana legalization helping?
A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition was to stop the harm caused by disproportionate enforcement of drug laws in Black, Latino and other minority communities
12:21AM ( 4 months ago )
Record Store Day celebrates indie retail music sellers as they ride vinyl's popularity wave
Record Store Day celebrates independent retail music sellers who have endured long after megastores like Tower Records closed
12:18AM ( 4 months ago )
Lawsuits under New York's new voting rights law reveal racial disenfranchisement even in blue states
A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement
12:11AM ( 4 months ago )
Trump was forced to listen silently as potential jurors offered their unvarnished assessments of him
Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and listen to a parade of potential jurors in his criminal hush money trial share their unvarnished assessments of him
12:04AM ( 4 months ago )
USC cancels graduation keynote by filmmaker amid controversy over decision to drop student's speech
The University of Southern California is further shaking up its commencement plans
9:01PM ( 4 months ago )
South Africa man convicted in deaths of 2 Alaska Native women faces revocation of U.S. citizenship
Federal prosecutors want to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a South Africa man convicted of killing two Alaska Native women for allegedly lying on his naturalization application for saying he had neither killed nor hurt anyone
6:08PM ( 4 months ago )
Prehistoric lake sturgeon is not endangered, US says despite calls from conservationists
Federal wildlife officials have decided not to place lake sturgeon on the endangered species list, ensuring annual spearing seasons in Wisconsin and Michigan can continue
5:54PM ( 5 months ago )
Man who set himself on fire outside Trump trial dies of injuries, police say
A man who doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died
4:29PM ( 5 months ago )
The man who set himself on fire outside the courthouse where Trump is on trial dies of his injuries
The man who doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died
4:29PM ( 5 months ago )
Crews turn sights to removing debris from ship's deck in Baltimore bridge collapse cleanup
Salvage crews at the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are turning their focus to the thousands of tons of debris sitting atop the massive cargo ship that veered off course last month
3:29PM ( 5 months ago )