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Cynthia Tucker: GOP continues to use black women as scapegoats

Cynthia Tucker: GOP continues to use black women as scapegoats

For President Donald Trump and his allies, Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, were easy targets. They are Black women. That made it oh-so-simple for Trumpists to paint the mother and daughter, who served as Fulton County, Georgia, poll workers, as lawless and fraudulent schemers. Read more

Editorial: GOP support for gun bill offers hope

Fifteen Republicans in the Senate and 14 in the House joined with congressional Democrats last week to break more than 25 years of inaction on gun safety. That these Republicans, many of whom had ratings of A or A-plus from the National Rifle Association, defied the gun lobby with their support of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act suggests they saw the political peril in doing nothing about the gun violence gripping the country.  Read more

Alex Jones: Right’s war against medicaid expansion doomed

A dream so long enjoyed cannot cease without hardship. But the psychological pain of diminishing hope seems to weigh heavily on the minds of North Carolina’s political Right. For the myriad operatives of our state’s organized right wing movement, the rising likelihood of Medicaid expansion is causing something akin to panic. For those who have long taken pride in obstinate rejectionism, an existential crisis is setting in at the prospect of making healthcare more affordable to the needy. Read more

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NC GOP unveils budget; House backs Medicaid expansion path

NC GOP unveils budget; House backs Medicaid expansion path

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders on Tuesday unveiled state budget adjustments for the coming year, proposing to spend or set aside billions in expected extra tax collections to raise worker pay, recruit companies, build more infrastructure and combat inflation.

Some cities nix July 4 fireworks for shortages, fire dangers

Some cities nix July 4 fireworks for shortages, fire dangers

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PHOENIX (AP) — The skies over a scattering of Western U.S. cities will stay dark for the third consecutive Fourth of July as some major fireworks displays are canceled again this year — some over wildfire concerns amid dry weather and others because of enduring pandemic-related staffing and …

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Verdict looms in trial over 2015 Paris extremist attacks
World

Verdict looms in trial over 2015 Paris extremist attacks

  • By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — Over the course of an extraordinary nine-month trial, the lone survivor of the Islamic State extremist team that attacked Paris in 2015 has proclaimed his radicalism, wept, apologized to victims and pleaded with judges to forgive his “mistakes.”

Rice fields dry up as Italy's drought lingers on
World

Rice fields dry up as Italy's drought lingers on

  • By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press

MORTARA, Italy (AP) — The worst drought Italy has faced in 70 years is thirsting paddy fields in the river Po valley and jeopardizing the harvest of the premium rice used for risotto.

NATO chief: Alliance faces biggest challenge since WWII
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NATO chief: Alliance faces biggest challenge since WWII

  • By JILL LAWLESS, JOSEPH WILSON and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

MADRID (AP) — NATO leaders were sitting down Wednesday to try to turn an urgent sense of purpose triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into action — and to patch up any cracks in their unity over money and mission.