Jason Collins, the NBA’s first openly gay player who went on to become a pioneer for inclusion and an ambassador for the league, has died after an eight-month battle with an aggressive form of a brain tumor, his family announced …
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Envoy says stalled Gaza ceasefire has failed to meet expectations of Israelis and Palestinians Read MoreBy JACK BROOK and DAVID A. LIEB BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican senators in Louisiana advanced a plan Wednesday to eliminate one of two majority-Black, Democratic-held congressional seats following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the state’s …
Louisiana advances plan to eliminate majority-Black US House district after court ruling Read MoreBy JIM MUSTIAN and JACK BROOK NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana officials have agreed to a tentative $4.8 million settlement with the family of Ronald Greene, a Black motorist who died during a violent 2019 roadside arrest carried out by …
$4.8M settlement reached over Ronald Greene’s Louisiana traffic stop death, AP sources say Read More