By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — In the modest bungalows and two-flats of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, there’s never a shortage of needed home repairs staring residents…
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Barbers, artists help defy vaccine myths for people of color
By JULIE WATSON and ANITA SNOW Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — In a Washington, D.C., suburb, Black and Latino barbers are busting myths about the coronavirus vaccine while clipping hair. Across the…
Shy podcaster helped police crack California cold case
By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Lambert would like to get back to making music but he can’t seem to stop chasing a ghost that has haunted him for nearly 25 years. A billboard…
Study: 2.5 billion T. rex roamed Earth, but not all at once
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer One Tyrannosaurus rex seems scary enough. Now picture 2.5 billion of them. That’s how many of the fierce dinosaur king probably roamed Earth over the course of a c…
Biden’s appeals for action on guns, policing face reality
By ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the nation struggles with yet another mass shooting and faces a reckoning over the deaths of Black men at the hands of police, …
Russia to expel 10 US diplomats in response to Biden actions
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Friday responded to a barrage of new U.S. sanctions by saying it would expel 10 U.S. diplomats and take other retaliatory moves in a ten…
FBI says it interviewed FedEx mass shooter last year
By CASEY SMITH and RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis was interviewed by FBI…
Chicago police critics call for charges in shooting of boy
By SARA BURNETT and MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Newly released video that shows a Chicago police officer fatally shoot a 13-year-old will be key evidence when prosecutors consider a c…
State’s own expert told grand jury police didn’t kill Prude
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press Prosecutors overseeing a grand jury investigation into the death of Daniel Prude last year in Rochester, New York, undercut the case for criminal charges with test…
Oath Keeper is 1st suspect to plead guilty in Capitol riot
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and heavy metal guitarist on Friday became the first defendant to pl…