By Patrick Sung and John Sinnott, Tiger Woods will make his competitive return to golf next week at a $1 million tournament playing with his son Charlie. Woods has not played in a golf tournament since suffering serious leg injuries in a car accident in February. Father and son will play at the PNC Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf
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By Kerry Flynn, A staggering 293 journalists were imprisoned in 2021, according to an annual census by nonprofit group Committee to Protect Journalists. That tally is up from 280 journalists in 2020 and is the highest number CPJ has ever reported since it started keeping track of the data in 1992. For the sixth straight
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By Jackson State University News Staff Honor student Alexis L. Evans has a natural concern for the welfare of people, and that’s why she’ll be earning her degree in Healthcare Administration in the College of Health Sciences during Jackson State University’s commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 10, in the Lee E. Williams Athletics
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Written by Texas Southern University Texas Southern University graduates will cross the stage during TSU’s Winter Commencement on Saturday, December 11, 2021, in the Health & Physical Education Arena. The university will hold two ceremonies – one at 9:30 a.m. and a second at 12:30 p.m. – to recognize and celebrate students who have persevered
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By Omar Jimenez and Travis Caldwell, Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was found guilty Thursday on five counts of felony disorderly conduct for making false reports to police that he was the victim of a hate crime in January 2019. His defense team said it will appeal the verdict. Jurors deliberated over the course of two days
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By Dianne Gallagher and Ethan Cohen, CNN The North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order Wednesday that moves the state’s primary elections from March 2022 to May 2022, due to lawsuits over redistricting maps for congressional and state legislative districts. The preliminary injunction also halts candidate filing, reversing an earlier state Court of Appeals ruling. Any candidate who has
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By Fredreka Schouten, Nicole Love Hendrickson made Georgia history last year, becoming the first Black woman elected chair of the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners. But under a bill that a Republican legislator has pledged to advance in the Georgia General Assembly early next year, Hendrickson would be stripped of most of her voting powers
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By Michael Conte, The US will provide new funding to protect reporters targeted because of their work and support independent international journalism, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday at the opening of the virtual Summit for Democracy. The new “liability fund” will support “reporters and news organizations that are targeted with litigation as a result
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By Deidre McPhillips, Most parents still have concerns about the safety of Covid-19 vaccines for children, and about three in 10 say that they will “definitely not” vaccinate their children against Covid-19, according a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Vaccine uptake has slowed among adolescents ages 12 to 17 in recent months. Only
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By Clare Foran, Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Annie Grayer, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have reached an agreement to create a one-time process that would let Democrats raise the debt ceiling on their votes alone, a deal that underscores the lengths the GOP leader will go to avoid a damaging default without
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