By Betsy Klein The White House is encouraging state and local governments to use funding from the Covid relief package passed earlier this year to address a summer rise in violent crime as pandemic restrictions loosen nationwide. The administration’s strategy to combat crime, a White House
By Wayne Sterling Paige Bueckers, the star point guard for the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team, was named the best college athlete in women’s sports at the 2021 ESPYS on Saturday night and used her acceptance speech to celebrate and honor
By Leah Asmelash Around the country, school, county and even bird names are being reconsidered and changed, as greater attention is paid to their origins and the racism the names may invoke. In this same tradition, multiple areas have reconsidered geographical names containing the word “negro” —
By Lauren Fox, Jeremy Herb, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson avoids making too many promises when it comes to his new select committee to investigate the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. But the Mississippi Democrat
By Allison Morrow and Matt Egan Wells Fargo is shutting down all of its existing personal lines of credit, sparking outrage from consumers and advocates. A spokesperson for the bank said Wells Fargo made the decision last year as part of an
By Theresa Waldrop Zaila Avant-garde, the teenager who this week became the first African American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, has earned yet another honor: an offer of a full scholarship to Louisiana State University. “Your academic performance reflected scholarship
By Emma Tucker and Christina Carrega The Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Crump are taking up their first case involving a White person who was killed after being shot during an encounter with a police officer. The civil rights leader and the high-profile attorney, who Sharpton has
By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean The number of guns found at airport checkpoints nationwide this year is fast approaching the number caught in all of 2020, officials say, and the uptick is slowing down screening lines as masses of passengers return to
By Betsy Klein President Joe Biden is set to give an anticipated major speech on voting rights Tuesday in Philadelphia, the White House announced Friday. Biden, the White House said, will deliver “remarks on actions to protect the sacred, constitutional right to vote.” It remains unclear
By Jason Hanna It’s summertime — and the 44th President once again has a few tunes for your consideration. Former President Barack Obama kicked out a characteristically wide-ranging list of what he’s been listening to this summer — a collection including J.
