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Who was Jack Johnson, the boxer who may be pardoned by Trump?
On Saturday, President Donald Trump said he was weighing whether or not to grant a posthumous pardon to boxer Jack Johnson, after it was suggested to him by actor Sylvester Stallone.
Domestic abuse survivor fights her past in the ring
Casey Lynn takes a deep breath, pulls her boxing gloves to her mouth and uses her teeth to make one final adjustment before stepping into the ring. This is the quiet before the storm. Lynn, a self-proclaimed "overthinker," says that when she approaches the boxing ring, everything in her mind falls away.
Tucker Carlson wrongly tells his viewers the country's white supremacy problem 'is a hoax'
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Where your kid goes to college doesn't matter as much as you think
Before you "help" your kid get into an Ivy League school through various methods of chicanery, take a very deep breath and consider why it's so important to you that they get into an elite school.
Cigarette filters are the No.1 plastic pollutant ... and don't prevent cancer
Plastic straws and bags have received widespread attention as pollutants. But another, even bigger, plastic problem has been slipping under the radar -- cigarette filters.
10 ways to honor veterans beyond Veterans Day
Every year on November 11, Americans honor the 19.6 million active and former US service members who have gone to war.
In 16 minutes, Dave Chappelle beautifully, incisively summed up all of 2020 -- and sometimes it hurt
On the same day the US got a new president, "Saturday Night Live" host Dave Chappelle served up a biting monologue that hit the lowlights of the year, including coronavirus and the rage and tension the country has felt.
How to listen to Trump voters
We re-learned that lesson last week when swing states like Florida and Wisconsin performed far better in pre-election surveys for Joe Biden than with actual voters on Election Day. Trump won Florida despite polls putting Biden in the lead there and the President narrowly lost Wisconsin, where pollsters had predicted a much larger margin for Biden.
The Greatest Gift Alex Trebek Left Us
The answer in the form of a question: Who was a genuinely decent man, a generous philanthropist, an iconic television personality and -- as fellow public savant Neil deGrasse Tysondubbed him -- the "Patron Saint of Geeks?" The clue, which anyone who watched him during his two decades as the most beloved game show host of our generation, is obvious: It's Alex Trebek, whose passing this weekend tore a ragged hole in our pop culture continuum.
'Summer of Soul' and 'Dick Gregory' offer windows into the civil-rights era
A pair of documentaries showcase strong directing debuts by Black filmmakers for the Fourth of July weekend: "Summer of Soul" transforms long-lost video into an intoxicating and layered look back at the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969; and "The One and Only Dick Gregory" celebrates the comedian who dropped the stand-up mic to take up the mantle of civil-rights activism.
Juneteenth's path to becoming a federal holiday was a long time coming
For much of US history, Juneteenth has been a date observed mostly by Black Americans commemorating the symbolic end of slavery.
'They left us for dead.' Tigray refugees tell of horrors after Ethiopian troops vowed they'd be safe
Huyeet is limping as he crosses the border, his leg bandaged with dirty gauze.
Mom dies after giving birth to fifth child
A local father is left to raise his young kids after his wife passed away giving birth to their fifth child.
Biden's stimulus will keep America's economy humming for years, Goldman Sachs predicts
President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion economic rescue is so massive that economists are marking up their growth forecasts for not just this year, but next as well.
Dust-covered solar panels mean NASA Mars lander's mission is coming to an end
The NASA InSight lander, which has been revealing the mysterious interior of Mars since 2018, is coming to an end. Due to a decreasing power supply, the mission will cease scientific operations by the end of late summer, said Kathya Zamora Garcia, InSight deputy project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, during a news conference Tuesday.
Top House Democrats accuse DHS watchdog of obstructing investigation into missing Secret Service text messages
Two top House Democrats are accusing the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General of obstructing their investigation into missing Secret Service text messages related to the January 6 Capitol attack, escalating tensions between Congress and the watchdog agency.
Top House Democrats accuse DHS watchdog of obstructing investigation into missing Secret Service text messages
Two top House Democrats are accusing the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General of obstructing their investigation into missing Secret Service text messages related to the January 6 Capitol attack, escalating tensions between Congress and the watchdog agency.
Memphis police find unidentified body 3 days after a teacher was violently abducted
Memphis police found an unidentified body Monday about 20 minutes from where teacher Eliza "Liza" Fletcher was violently abducted three days ago, according to a tweet from the police department.
Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant subpoenaed for his texts with Brett Favre about a drug company linked to the ex-NFL quarterback
Former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has again been subpoenaed amid an ongoing civil suit in a multimillion-dollar welfare fraud scandal, and this time attorneys want to see communications between the ex-governor and former NFL and Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre.
McCarthy faces make-or-break moment in vote to elect House speaker
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy faces a make-or-break moment on Tuesday, as he seeks to lock down the support necessary to become the next speaker in a vote that could turn into a chaotic and contentious once-in-a-century floor fight.
