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California Driver Charged After Striking Two Protesters, Police Say

A woman was charged with attempted murder after the car she was driving struck two people during a demonstration for racial justice in California that clashed with a counterprotest on Saturday, the authorities said. The driver, Tatiana Turner, of Long Beach, Calif., was also charged with assault with a deadly weapon, the Orange County Sheriff’s […]

How Could Voter Suppression Affect the Presidential Election? Look at Georgia.

By Kassie Bracken and Alexandra Eaton During Georgia’s June primary, frustrated voters documented long waits at polls in social media messages like this and this. Kevin A. Cronin captured the opposite — a nearly empty polling place in Sandy Springs, an Atlanta suburb. “Oh look,” he said after he put his absentee ballot in a […]

Woman arrested in California after driving car into protest

YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — A woman who authorities say drove a car into a crowd during a Southern California demonstration against police brutality, striking and injuring two people, has been arrested for investigation of attempted murder and assault. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement late Saturday that 40-year-old Tatiana Turner of […]

Trump demands Biden take drug test before or after Tuesday debate

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump demanded on Sunday (Sept 27) that his Democratic rival Joe Biden take a drug test either before or after the pair’s first debate on Tuesday, in his latest salvo against his opponent’s mental acuity. “I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, […]

In a time of disarray, UN's virtual General Assembly adds surreal notes

UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES (AFP) – “Our common house is in disorder,” said French President Emmanuel Macron, describing the troubled state of the United Nations General Assembly as it prepares for a second week of mostly virtual meetings and speeches starting on Tuesday (Sept 29). For the first time, the speeches of presidents and prime […]

What Is the Future of Black Appalachia?

[Race/Related is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox.] On a warm July day, Ron and Jill Carson sat in a former one-room schoolhouse in Pennington Gap, Va., that until 1965 was the only primary school in town for Black children. The first seven years of Mr. Carson’s […]

Judge schedules Sunday hearing as Trump's ban looms

WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – A federal judge scheduled an rare Sunday morning (Sept 27) hearing to decide whether the US can go through with its ban on the popular video-sharing app TikTok. ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, has asked the court to block the ban, set to begin on Sunday night, even as it pursues approvals from […]

In Colorado, Fiery Political Novice Aims for a Seat in the House

LOMA, Colo. — Lauren Boebert, the feisty hard-right Republican House candidate, had just finished regaling a crowd clad in red, white and blue at a livestock sale barn here on the Western Slope with dire warnings that “our country is on the line” in the coming election and “if we lose America, we lose our […]