WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson vowed Monday in her opening remarks before the Senate Judiciary Committee that she would be an impartial justice on the high court if she is confirmed. “I have been a judge for nearly a decade now, and […]
A Black Detroit veteran who served with the Peace Corps Response in Ukraine from 2018 to 2019 is returning to the country to help fight alongside Ukrainian troops against the Russian invasion. M. Dujon Johnson, 62, taught at Cherkasy National University and Cherkasy State Business College in […]
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris to meet with Romania’s President, Klaus Iohannis, to discuss Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Romania’s president will meet Friday to discuss growing concerns about the influx of displaced people […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress gave final approval Monday to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S., sending the bill to President Joe Biden to sign into law. Years in the making, the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is among some 200 […]
New York (CNN Business)Jack Sweeney, a Florida teen who tracks Elon Musk’s private jet online has a new aviation-themed target: Russian oligarchs and billionaires. The 19-year-old, who rejected Musk’s $5,000 offer to delete his Twitter account, recently launched two new automated Twitter handles — @RUOligarchJets and @Putinjet — following Russia’s […]
By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images The United States just bombed Somalia hard — right before Russian President Vladimir Putin started his full-scale military offensive against Ukraine, which has garnered suspicions of possible war crimes and earned widespread criticism. Embid and Harden Slam Knicks […]