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Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the final in the men's 200-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials Sunday, June 27, 2021, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
IOC gives athletes more scope for protest at Tokyo Olympics

By Graham Dunbar Jul. 02, 2021 12:02 PM EDT

Illinois APME announces winners in 2020 newspaper contest

Jun. 15, 2021 12:17 PM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — Winners have been announced in the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors 2020 newspaper contest. The awards were announced...

Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd, left, and Benjamin Crump, civil rights attorney who represented the family of George Floyd, right, pause for reporters at the Capitol in Washington, after meeting with Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Tuesday, May 25, 2021, the first anniversary of Floyd's death at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Grief, smiles 1 year after Floyd death as family meets Biden

By Alexandra Jaffe And Alan Fram May. 25, 2021 10:32 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Philadelphia Inquirer. May 17, 2021. Editorial: Republican lawmakers should deal with real issues instead of targeting transgender children...

Editorial Roundup: Florida

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 08:10 AM EDT
South Florida Sun Sentinel. May 18, 2021. Editorial: Do some good with gambling: Expand Medicaid The Seminole gambling...

Tronco, or multiple foot stocks used to to constrain enslaved people, are seen at the Slavery exhibition Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, May 17, 2021. The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern at the museum's unflinching new exhibition titled, simply, "Slavery", that examines the history of Dutch involvement in the international slave trade. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
New Dutch exhibition takes unflinching look at slavery

By Mike Corder May. 18, 2021 05:58 AM EDT

In this image taken from video, prosecutor Steve Schleicher introduces himself to potential jurors as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over jury selection, Monday, March 22, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
The 12 jurors deliberating in the trial of Derek Chauvin

By Amy Forliti Apr. 19, 2021 06:00 PM EDT

Michelle Hunziker upon her arrival at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in Milan, Italy, on Sept. 22, 2019. Swiss-Italian TV host Michelle Hunziker apologized on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, for mimicking Asians on a satirical television program that drew wide-spread protests on social media. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Sketch mocking Chinese launches racism debate in Italy

By Colleen Barry Apr. 15, 2021 01:36 PM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, file photo, Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers in Bessemer, Ala. Nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, have voted on whether or not to form a union. But the process to tally all the ballots and determine an outcome will continue for a second week, according to the National Labor Relations Board, a government agency that’s conducting the election.(AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
EXPLAINER: What to know about the Amazon union vote count

By Joseph Pisani Apr. 07, 2021 04:43 PM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, June 6, 2020 file photo, a demonstrator holds a placard, during a Black Lives Matter rally in Parliament Square in London, Saturday, June 6, 2020, as people protest against the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, USA. There is racism in Britain, but it’s not a systematically racist country that is “rigged” against non-white people. That’s the conclusion, published Wednesday, March 31, 2021 of an inquiry commissioned by the Conservative government in the wake of anti-racism protests across the country last year. Many ethnic-minority Britons greeted that claim with skepticism, saying the inquiry's 264-page report downplayed the discrimination and disadvantage they face. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
Black adviser quits UK government in wake of racism report

By Jill Lawless Apr. 01, 2021 07:09 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Florida

By The Associated Press Mar. 31, 2021 08:19 AM EDT
Recent editorials from Florida newspapers: ___ March 31 The Palm Beach Post on the “anti-riot” bill...

In this screen grab from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, defendant and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, right, and Nelson's assistant Amy Voss, back, introduce themselves to potential jurors as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill Tuesday, March 23, 2021, presides over jury selection in the trial of Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV, via AP, Pool)
The 15 jurors selected for the trial of Derek Chauvin

By Amy Forliti Mar. 23, 2021 01:51 PM EDT

FILE -In this March 23, 2019 file photo, a marcher holds up his fist while staring at police lined up in front of PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh during a protest after a former suburban police officer was acquitted of a homicide charge in the on-duty shooting death of Antwon Rose II in East Pittsburgh. In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs that took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters, who they called “terrorists” or “thugs.” (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Transphobia, hostility about protesters in private cop group

By Claudia Lauer And Thalia Beaty Mar. 22, 2021 08:23 AM EDT

Mount Pleasant Township Police Chief Lou McQuillan returns to his office at the municipal building in Hickory, Pa., on Monday, March 15, 2021. McQuillan, who recently announced he is running for a vacant magisterial district judge post, was listed as one of four administrators of a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom. Many current and retired officers who are in the group spent the year criticizing chiefs that took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters, who they called “terrorists,” or “thugs.” (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Transphobia, hostility about protesters in private cop group

By Claudia Lauer And Thalia Beaty Mar. 22, 2021 07:53 AM EDT

Hate crime charge added in state Capitol spitting incident

By Dave Collins Mar. 18, 2021 07:04 PM EDT
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut prosecutors have added hate crime and other charges against a white woman who spat on a Black woman during protests at the...

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) reacts after shooting a 3-point basket against the Utah Jazz during the first half of an NBA basketball game in San Francisco, Sunday, March 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Curry, WNBA players receive Jackie Robinson award from NAACP

By Janie Mccauley Mar. 18, 2021 11:10 AM EDT

A group of protesters march in the snow around the Hennepin County Government Center, Monday, March 15, 2021, in Minneapolis where the second week of jury selection continues in the trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin is charged with murder in the death of George Floyd during an arrest last may in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Corporations become unlikely financiers of racial equity

By Haleluya Hadero Mar. 17, 2021 10:05 AM EDT

This combination photo shows the cover of "The Soul of a Woman," left, and a portrait of author Isabel Allende. (Ballantine via AP left, and Lori Barra via AP)
Q&A: Isabel Allende on feminism, TV series, love in pandemic

By Sigal Ratner-Arias Mar. 09, 2021 11:02 AM EST

Dancers in native dress take part in a ceremony outside the Hennepin County Government Center, Monday, March 8, 2021, in Minneapolis where the trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began with jury selection. Chauvin is charged with murder in the death of George Floyd during an arrest last May in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Jury selection on pause for ex-cop charged in Floyd's death

By Amy Forliti And Steve Karnowski Mar. 07, 2021 11:51 PM EST

329 candidates for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Mar. 01, 2021 11:27 AM EST
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Monday that there are 329 candidates — 234 individuals and 95 organizations — that were nominated...