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Recent UC Davis student arrested in 3 California stabbings
DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — A 21-year-old who was a student at the University of California, Davis, until last week was arrested on accusations offatally stabbing two people and wounding anotherin attacks that terrified the quiet college community, police said Thursday. Carlos Dominguez
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
San Francisco blanketed in smoke as California fires rage — The Sacramento Observer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of people were under orders to evacuate in regions surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday as some 30 wildfires blazed across the state amid a blistering heat wave now in its second week. Smoke blanketed the city of San Francisco. “Throughout the state of
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Now hiring: California offers credits to small businesses — The Sacramento Observer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With millions of people out of work in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed a law giving tax breaks to small businesses that hire more workers by Dec. 1. The law will reduce how much state taxes some small businesses owe if they have more employees working
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Texas A&M reaches $1 million settlement with Black journalism professor
By Jim Vertuno | The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement Thursday with a Black journalism professorwhose hiring was sabotagedby backlash over her past work promoting diversity. The nation’s largest public school agreed to pay
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Reparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations. The preliminary estimate is m
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Black parents seek schools affirming their history as some states ban race education
By Cheyanne Mumphrey | The Associated Press DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Every decision Assata Salim makes for her young son is important. Amid a spike in mass killings, questions of safety were at the top of her mind when choosing a school. Next on her checklist was the school’s culture.
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Phoenix Mercury make travel ‘adjustments’ following airport incident with Brittney Griner
By Michael Marot | The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Phoenix Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard had one goal before taking the court Sunday. She wants the WNBA to take additional steps to keep her team’s traveling parties safe and secure. One day after Mercury center Brittney Gr
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Ex-officer who fatally shot Breonna Taylor hired as a deputy
By Dylan Lovan | The Associated Press CARROLLTON, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police officer who fired the fatal shot that killed Breonna Taylor has a new job in law enforcement - a controversial hiring that drew protesters to a rural Kentucky county northeast of the city. The
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Is the Water in Flint Finally Safe?
By Maya Richard-Craven | Word In Black (WIB) - “Flint still doesn’t have clean water.”  Search on social media for that statement, and you’ll see it in the feeds of activists, policymakers, folks concerned about the quality of the water where they live, and even some politicians.
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Officer to Floyd: ‘It Takes A Lot of Oxygen to Talk’
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As George Floyd told Minneapolis police officers that he couldn’t breathe more than 20 times in the moments before he died, the officer who pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck dismissed his pleas, saying “it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk,” according to transcripts of
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What’s behind the looming ‘x-date’ on the US debt limit?
By Josh Boak | The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In January, the U.S. government ran up against its legal borrowing limit of $31.381 trillion, and the Treasury Department began implementing “extraordinary measures” to avoid missing payments on its bills. That started speculat
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Hall of Fame outfielder, speedster Brock dies at age 81 — The Sacramento Observer
NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Famer Lou Brock, one of baseball’s signature leadoff hitters and base stealers who helped the St. Louis Cardinals win three pennants and two World Series in the 1960s, has died. He was 81. Dick Zitzmann, Brock’s longtime agent and friend, confirmed Brock’s death Sunday, but
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Biden Draws Distinction on Black, Latino Political Diversity — The Sacramento Observer
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden faces new scrutiny over how he discusses race and ethnicity after drawing distinctions between Black and Hispanic populations in the United States. “By the way, what you all know but most people don’t know, unlike the African American
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Search is on for gunman who fired at Sacramento officer — The Sacramento Observer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Sacramento were searching Thursday for an armed man who fired several times at a police sergeant before speeding away. Officers went to a home in North Sacramento Tuesday night after 50-year-old Albert Wheeler’s family family reported that he had a gun and
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No kidding: California overtime law threatens use of grazing goats to prevent wildfires
By Terry Chea | The Associated Presss WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of goats munch on long blades of yellow grass on a hillside next to a sprawling townhouse complex. They were hired to clear vegetation that could fuel wildfires as temperatures rise this summer. These vo
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What’s behind shortages of Adderall, Ozempic and other meds?
By Tom Murphy | The Associated Press (AP) - Shortages of drugs like Adderall are growing in the United States, and experts see no clear path to resolving them. For patients, that can mean treatment delays, medication switches and other hassles filling a prescription. In recent mon
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Sexual assault reports increase at US military academies
By Lolita C. Baldor | The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Reported sexual assaults at U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students told an anonymous survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact, The Associated Press
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KFC suspends ‘Its Finger Lickin’ Good’ slogan amid pandemic — The Sacramento Observer
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Don’t lick your fingers! That’s what Kentucky Fried Chicken signaled to customers Monday as the company suspended its “It’s Finger Lickin’ Good” tagline after 64 years, deeming it “the most inappropriate slogan for 2020” amid the coronavirus pandemic. The suspension will
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Deal approved, Biden will address budget, debt agreement from Oval Office Friday evening
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden planned to discuss thecontentious, just-passed budget dealin a speech to the nation Friday night, ready to sign the agreement averting the country’s first-ever government default, which would have sent shock waves through the U.S. and global e
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‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ is a box office smash
By Lindsey Bahr | The Associated Press (AP) - Audiences said let’s go to the movie theater for “ The Super Mario Bros. Movie ” this weekend. The animated offering from Universal and Illumination powered up with $204.6 million in its first five days in 4,343 North American theaters
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Thermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine
By Lea Skene and Sarah Brumfield | The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology com
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Lizzo brings drag queens on stage, protesting Tennessee law
By The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a concert Friday night in Knoxville, Tennessee, Lizzo filled the stage with drag queens in a glittery protest against the state’s legislation designed to restrict drag performances in public. While performing at Thompson-Boling Ar
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Georgia prosecutor fights back against Trump attempt to remove her from election probe
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor who’s investigating whether Donald Trump and his allies broke any laws as they tried to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state fought back Monday against the former president’s attempt to remove he
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Video in Black man’s suffocation shows cops put hood on him — The Sacramento Observer
(AP) - A Black man who had run naked through the streets of a western New York city died of asphyxiation after a group of police officers put a hood over his head, then pressed his face into the pavement for two minutes, according to video and records released Wednesday by the man’s family. Daniel
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Three African Americans Step Into Top California Leadership Roles - African American News Today - EIN News
appointments of two African Americans who have already final Senate approval. African American legislators and activists say promised more inclusion of African Americans and other ethnic Santa Clara County, another African American, Rick Callender, assumed
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California, drugmaker partner to produce affordable insulin
DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) — The state of California and a generic drug manufacturer announced a 10-year partnership Saturday to produce affordable, state-branded insulin that they hope will rival longtime producers and push down prices for a medication used by millions of Americans. The
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In Tennessee, expulsions echo a decades-old protest movement
By Adrian Sainz, Kimberlee Kruesi and Tim Sullivan | The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Squint a little as you take in the scene, or just close your eyes and listen to the voice, and 2023 stumbles back into another era. Another Memphis. “You can’t expel hope!” the young ma
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Community Seeks Aggie Square Partnership — The Sacramento Observer
Aggie Square is described as a “game changing partnership” that will bring innovative opportunities to the area surrounding the UC Davis Medical Center on Stockton Boulevard. Local residents say they don’t want to be losers when the project, which will include the building of spaces for research
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Manhattan DA sues Rep. Jordan over Trump indictment inquiry
By Michael R. Sisak and Farnoush Amiri | The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sued Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday, an extraordinary move as he seeks to halt a House Judiciary Committee inquiry that the prosecutor contends is a “transparent campa
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House Leaders ‘Alarmed’ Federal Officers Policing Protests — The Sacramento Observer
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Top leaders in the U.S. House said Sunday they were “alarmed” by the Trump administration’s tactics against protesters in Portland, Oregon, and other cities, including Washington, D.C., and called on federal inspectors general investigate. “This is a matter of utmost
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