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The Rev. Michael Pfleger, the senior pastor of the St. Sabina parish in Chicago, will be reinstated to active ministry, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich announced Monday. Pfleger, a longtime activist on Chicago’s South Side, has gained a national reputation for speaking out on policing, gun violence, community inequality and other issues. Three men have alleged

We lost civil rights icons. They lost friends. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Xernona Clayton and Andrew Young are some of the last remaining members of a generation of civil rights activists who reshaped the US and challenged their country to become a genuine multiracial democracy. But they are also survivors who have witnessed some of

The nation’s two largest public school districts will be open for in-person learning five days a week when the next academic year begins, officials said Monday. While schools in Los Angeles will also offer an online option, New York City schools won’t have a remote option. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told MSNBC

The New York Police Department and state police are stepping up their presence in New York’s Jewish communities following two hate-related incidents in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood over the weekend, officials said. At around 7:45 p.m. Saturday, two teens, ages 18 and 17, were approached by two men who “demanded that the victims repeat anti-Jewish

Click here for updates on this story     MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It’s a day to remember for a handful of strangers who now share a special bond. Five Minnesota kidney donors and recipients met for the first time Friday morning. It’s not every day a 28-year-old from St. Paul and a 5-year-old from the Iron Range

Click here for updates on this story     ARRANT COUNTY, Texas (KTVT) — Four days after a high school senior was killed from a blow to the head in Tarrant County, his family is still searching for clues to what happened. Just a week after Leo Pantalion had his 18th birthday, on Mother’s Day, his mother

Click here for updates on this story     DENTON, Texas (KTVT) — Two children and one adult were killed after a head-on crash on Highway 380 in Denton Sunday, police said. Police said they responded to the crash just before 11:45 a.m. on westbound 380 near Rockhill Road. In one vehicle, one adult was pronounced dead

International condemnation grew Monday after the authoritarian leader of Belarus diverted a Ryanair flight to Minsk in order to arrest a dissident journalist, in what the airline’s boss described as a “state-sponsored hijacking.” Some European leaders variously called for airlines to avoid Belarusian airspace, their citizens to leave the country, and for the release of