At Florida’s only public HBCU, students watch warily for political influence on teaching of race
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A core mission of Florida A&M University from its founding over a century ago has been to educate African Americans. It was written into the law that established the school along with another college, in Gainesville, reserved for white students.
At Florida’s only public historically Black university, some students now fear political constraints might get in the way of teaching parts of their history.
A law signed last spring by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination
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Congressional leaders announce an agreement on spending levels, a key step to averting shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on overall spending levels for the current fiscal year that could help avoid a partial government shutdown later this month.
The agreement largely hews to spending caps for defense and domestic programs that Congress set as part of a bill to suspend the debt limit until 2025. But it does provide some concessions to House Republicans who viewed the spending restrictions in that agreement as insufficient.
In a
Resurrected Golden Globes will restart the party with ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ and Swift
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic “Oppenheimer” dominated the 81st Golden Globes, winning five awards including best drama, while Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein riff “Poor Things” pulled off an upset victor over “Barbie” to triumph in the best comedy or musical category.
If awards season has been building toward a second match-up of Barbenheimer, this round went to “Oppenheimer.” The film also won best director for Nolan, best drama actor for Cillian Murphy, best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr.
Snow hinders rescues and aid deliveries to isolated communities after Japan quakes kill 126 people
WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — Rescue teams worked through snow to deliver supplies to isolated hamlets Monday, a week after , killing at least 161 people.
Heavy snowfall in Ishikawa Prefecture over the weekend and into the new week added to the urgency.
, 103 people were still unaccounted for, down from the more than 200 reported earlier, and 565 people were injured. Hundreds of aftershocks have followed, rattling Noto Peninsula, where the quakes were centered.
Taiyo Matsushita walked three hours
A California law banning the carrying of firearms in most public places is blocked again
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places was once again blocked from taking effect Saturday as a court case challenging it continues.
A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel dissolved a on a lower court injunction blocking the law. The hold was issued by a different 9th Circuit panel and had allowed the law to go into effect Jan. 1.
Saturday’s decision keeps in place a ruling by U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney blocking the law
Two dead in house fire in Vaughan
Two people are dead after a fire ripped through a home in Thornhill on Saturday night.
Firefighters from Toronto and Vaughan were called to a home on Conley Street in the area of Dufferin Street and Steeles Avenue West just after 7:30 p.m. where they were met with heavy smoke coming from the basement of the home.
Officials say they pulled two people from the basement apartment – a man and a woman – who were pronounced dead at the scene.
Two other people from the upper level of the house
Attack in southern Mexico community killed at least 5 people, authorities say
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An attack in a remote community in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero killed at least five people, the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said late Saturday
A rights group said at least six other people were wounded, but officials said they had not been able to confirm anyone being wounded.
Those killed apparently died in a burned out vehicle, according to investigators’ interviews with residents, but the bodies were removed by locals before agents arrived.
A local human rights organization initially reported Friday that the
Fear of violence looms over a contentious Bangladesh election as polls open
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Prime Minister has won an overwhelming majority in Bangladesh’s parliamentary election after a campaign fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, giving her and her Awami League a fourth consecutive term.
While the Election Commission has been slow to announce the results of Sunday’s election, TV stations with journalists across the country reported the Awami League won 224 seats out of 299. Independent candidates took 62, while the Jatiya Party, the third largest in
China sanctions 5 US defense companies in response to US sanctions and arms sales to Taiwan
BEIJING (AP) — China announced sanctions Sunday on five American defense-related companies in response to and U.S sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals.
The sanctions will freeze any property the companies have in China and prohibit organizations and individuals in China from doing business with them, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted online.
It was unclear what impact, if any, the sanctions would have on the companies, BAE Systems Land and Armaments, Alliant Techsystems Operations, AeroVironment, Viasat and Data Link Solutions. Such
Search for missing helicopter underway near Revelstoke, B.C.
REVELSTOKE — Rescue crews are searching for a helicopter that is believed to have gone missing in Glacier National Park, east of Revelstoke, B.C., on Friday.
Pedram Mohyeddin, a spokesperson for Maritime Forces Pacific, says the province’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre was alerted to the sound of an emergency locator transmitter about 10 nautical miles, or 18 kilometres, east of Revelstoke.
Mohyeddin says crews are now operating as if the ping came from the missing helicopter, which was on its way from Calgary