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Touchless Airport Screening Expands to D.C. as Congress Considers Limits on Facial Recognition

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

TSA and CBP are using facial recognition technology to verify identity and speed up the screening process at airports, while critics warn of privacy concerns

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FBI Stats Show Hidden Dangers Behind Falling Crime Rates

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

The FBI’s 2024 Uniform Crime Report shows that while the violent and property crime rates declined, the total number of murders increased, and other serious

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Albert Pike Statue to be Reinstalled in D.C. as Trump Pushes Forward with Racist Monument Restoration Agenda

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

The National Park Service has confirmed it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike in Washington, D.C., five years after protestors tore

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#BoycottTarget campaign to continue, even with new Target CEO

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

Target stores have been facing a nationwide boycott throughout the first half of 2025. Now those boycotts, led by Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ organizations upset

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Supermarket gunman who targeted Black people wants charges dropped, says grand jury was too white

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Attorneys for the white supremacist gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket told a judge Thursday that the

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Black attorneys respond to president’s executive order calling for elimination of cashless bail

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

By D. Kevin McNeirSpecial to the AFROkmcneir@afro.com

On Monday, August 25, the 47th president of the United States signed two executive orders to end cashless bail

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Embattled Fed Gov. Lisa Cook vows legal fight against 47th president’s bid to oust her

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

By Christopher RugaberAP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook will sue President Donald Trump’s administration to try to prevent him from firing

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Survivors of Katrina find strength, solace through the efforts of extraordinary people

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

By D. Kevin McNeirSpecial to the AFROkmcneir@afro.com

When the first official public warnings of a tropical depression, then located over the Bahamas, were issued on Aug.

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Tourist pouring BEER down elephant’s trunk sparks outrage

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

Kenyan authorities have launched an investigation after a Spanish tourist was filmed pouring beer down the trunk of an elephant at a private wildlife conservancy

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Ramaphosa joins Zimbabwe agricultural show as guest of honour

  • By Clark X
  • Aug-29-2025

President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Harare at the invitation of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Ramaphosa, who touched down on Friday, is attending the official opening

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