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A state lawmaker leading an effort to restrict voting rights in Georgia has been asked to resign from his role as attorney for a majority-Black county where residents as recently as 2015 accused other local officials of “making Black votes disappear.” State Rep. Barry Fleming, R-Harlem, is cosponsoring a bill that’s among more than 250

Covid-19 infections are on the rise across the country, with Michigan (+50%) among the states witnessing the largest spikes, according to Johns Hopkins University. Michigan cases have been climbing since the last week of February, and the state has reported the second highest number of cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, first identified in the United

Click here for updates on this story     OMAHA, Nebraska (Omaha World-Herald) — Zookeepers in Omaha are about to be busy baby-proofing the place. But they have about a year before Claire, a 12-year-old African elephant, welcomes a calf. Officials at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium announced Claire’s big news on Thursday. Claire will give

Click here for updates on this story     BUFFALO, New York (The Buffalo News) — A fight for a Ferrari is brewing in federal court in Buffalo. And it’s not over some everyday, run-of-the-mill Ferrari that costs a couple hundred thousand dollars. The fair market value for this red 1996 Ferrari F50 – one of just

Click here for updates on this story     TIJUANA, Mexico (KABC) — Hundreds of families from Mexico, Central America and other nations are stuck in encampments at the border in Tijuana as they attempt to seek asylum in the United States. One such family spoke to Eyewitness News reporter Anabel Munoz, who visited the encampments with

Click here for updates on this story     ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — The video shot by undercover St. Louis Police Detective Luther Hall the night he said he was beaten by three St. Louis officers was released Thursday. The video starts with showing people running in downtown St. Louis while shouting is heard. When Hall stops

The European Union’s medicines regulator has concluded that the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is safe to use after several EU countries suspended their rollouts following reports that it could be linked to blood clots. The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s executive director Emer Cooke said the agency had “come to a clear scientific conclusion: this is a

The astronauts on the International Space Station have already conducted five spacewalks so far this year — and now they’re going to relocate a spacecraft outside of the orbiting laboratory. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, along with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, will fly the Soyuz MS-17 capsule from its current port to another

As investigators piece together the movements and the motive of the suspect in this week’s deadly shootings at three Atlanta-area spas, fierce debate is underway over whether he should face hate crime charges for the attacks that left eight people dead, including six Asian women. “It looked like a hate crime to me,” Atlanta Mayor

Click here for updates on this story     GREENVILLE, South Carolina (WLOS) — Greenville Police were sent to check on a report of a possible breaking and entering off Mulberry Lane. Officials said the caller believed someone was pulling on her back door handle in an attempt to get into the house.. Officers arrived on the

At least two of the eight people killed at Atlanta-area Asian massage spas Tuesday lived in the same spa where they worked, Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said. “This one fact alone highlights the vulnerability, the invisibility, and the isolation of working-class Asian women in our country,” Nguyen said at a Thursday news conference. “When